Afternoon Roundup - Second Sunday of Advent (EF & OF) - Dominica II Adventus - December 6th, 2015

• Aleteia (Elizabeth Duffy) >> Consuming Christ Amid the Prayer-Shamers
• Aleteia (Arthur Herlin) >> Father Mourad: Defeating ISIS Within a Cell of Prayer
• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> The beatitude of the Missionaries of Mercy: welcoming everyone, excluding no one (But what about…?)
• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Year of Mercy Confession: worst case scenario. Part 2 – When to grant an absolution
• Bonfire of the Vanities (Fr Martin Fox) >> Why a 'Year of Mercy'? (Sunday homily)
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Mark Zimmerman) >> For Christians, martyrdom is a ‘never-ending story,’ says cardinal
• Catholic Sacristan (Isten Joe) >> Educating low-information anti-Catholic and neo-pagan consumers of the pagan origin of Christmas lie.
• Catholic Stand  (Melanie Jean Juneau) >> An Advent Message: Secretly Cynical, Profoundly Blessed
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Carl E. Olson) >> Living Between the First and Final Coming of Christ
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Fr. Mark A. Pilon) >> My Theology of Hopelessness
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, and Confessor
• Clutching My Rosary >> The Second Sunday of Advent
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> I Wanna Be Ready to Put on a Long White Robe – A Homily for the Second Sunday of Advent
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> A jolly little exhibition in the Ashmolean ...
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> From the Insanity File: St. Peter's Basilica to be Venue for Climate Change Ad!
• Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Second Sunday of Advent: "Prepare!"
• Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Saint Nicholas: "the splendor of glory from God forever: wrapped in the cloak of justice from God, bear on your head the mitre"
• New Liturgical Movement (David Clayton) >> Elements of the Catholic Mass - Video 5: the Processions of the Mass
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> The Feast of St Nicholas 2015
• Orbis Catholicus Travel Blog (John Sonnen) >> Getting to Know Islam
• Orbis Catholicus Travel Blog (John Sonnen) >> Attack on Catholic Identity
• RORATE CÆLI (Peter Kwasniewski) >> Second Sunday of Advent: “We Are Being Prepared for the Heavenly Sion” 
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> EXTRAORDINARY FORM LOW MASS FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH, MACON, GEORGIA, 5 PM EST
• St. Corbinian's Bear >> Mercy Priest: Speaking Against Pope Same as Physically Assaulting Him
• The Catholic Thing (Bevil Bramwell, OMI) >> The Advent Path to Christ
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> Viktor Frankenstein Notices a Wee Problem With His Programme   (Brilliant!)
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> St. Nicholas Dec. 6
• Views From the Choir Loft >> Saint Nicholas — “Identity Theft”
• Views From the Choir Loft (Jeff Ostrowski) >> Musical Resources • Second Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Saint Nicholas
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> An Advent Deësis