Morning Roundup - Greater Feria of Advent - Missa 'Rorate Coeli' - December 23rd, 2015

Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 21st, 2015 to December 27th, 2015 - Ordo for the Week

Editorial Note:  The Propers for the Vigil of the Nativity (EF) will be posted today (23 December) and the Propers for the 3 Masses of Christmas (EF) will be posted at 2:00 PM today on this blog as well!

• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Pope Francis’ Missionary of Mercy and an abuse victim to team up for the Year of Mercy?
• Bangor to Bobbio (Fr. Seán Coyle) >> Christmas - 'Christ's Mass'. 'And the Word became flesh and lived among us.'
• Catholic Answers (Todd Aglialoro) >> Asking the Right Question About Islam's God
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Carol Glatz) >> Pope to Vatican employees: Take care of your marriage and grandparents
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Catholic News Service) >> Bleak Christmas faces Catholics in earthquake-ravaged Nepal
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Staff Reporter) >> Iranian president scheduled to visit Pope Francis in January
• Catholic Sacristan (Isten Joe) >> Christ Cathedral, Diocese of Orange, has its first director of music ministries.
• Catholic Stand  (Annie Deddens) >> Living Out The Year of Mercy At Home
• Catholic Stand (Denise J. Hunnell, MD) >> Home for Christmas
• Clutching My Rosary >> Seventh Antiphon 
• Clutching My Rosary >> Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Advent
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Why Christmas Is Celebrated at Night
• Crisis Magazine (Elizabeth Anderson) >> When (Righteous) Anger is Justified
• Crisis Magazine (William Kilpatrick) >> Will the Church Get Hit by the Backlash Against Islam?
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> A Christmas reflection from Thomas Merton 
• Dominicana Journal (Br. Leo Camurati, O.P.) >> Who Is With Us?   (..."Today, the O Antiphon at Vespers asks Emmanuel to come and save us. “Emmanuel” is a name that fittingly describes He who is God (el) with us (emmanu). Herein, we see that every word must be carefully selected to make sure we are being true to the mystery He comes to reveal to us—that mystery which is the inner life of the Word made flesh. We are not simply relating to a God utterly removed from us, content to observe us from afar...") 
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> SSSSSSSSSSSSUPERSESSION
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 25: It is the day before the Holy Night 
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Marge Fenelon) >> Dec. 25 Marks the Beginning, Not the End, of the Christmas Season
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> God is With Us, So Do Not Be Afraid
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> O Rex Gentium 2015
• Pursued by Truth (Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble, FSP) >> When Christmas Is Difficult
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> SOLEMN SUNG MASS AT MIDNIGHT: SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH, MACON, GEORGIA
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> REACESSING SPOTLIGHT
• The Catholic Thing (Randall Smith) >> Hope in a Time of Darkness and Despair
• The Imaginative Conservative (Bradley J. Birzer) >> Russell Kirk: Peacenik Prophet
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> Evolution of Comic Species
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Adoring the Silence of the Word