Morning Roundup - Vigil of the Ascension - Commemor.: St. Monica, Widow Or Rogation Mass - May 4th, 2016

The Ascension of Our Lord - In Ascensione Domini - Missa 'Viri Galilaei' - May 5th, 2016 - Propers
Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - May 2nd to May 8th, 2016 - Ordo for the Week

• Bill Petro >> History of May the Fourth (be with you): Star Wars Day
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Catholic News Service) >> Nun’s death in Ecuador earthquake was a ‘loving sacrifice’, says Irish bishop
• Catholic Stand  (Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg) >> Modern Education and Catholic Schools 
• Catholic Stand (Diane McKelva) >> Reclaiming My Faith
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saint Monica, Widow
• Clutching My Rosary >> Vigil of the Ascension; Wednesday of the Rogation Days
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Some Things You May Not Know About Vivaldi
• Courageous Priest (John Quinn) >> Euthanasia and the Last Rites
• Courageous Priest (John Quinn) >> Cardinal Burke: Notre Dame is Wrong
• Crisis Magazine (William Kilpatrick) >> Good Islam vs. Bad Islam
• Crisis Magazine (Jonathan Abbamonte) >> The Left Has It Wrong When It Comes to Sex Ed
• Dominicana Journal (Br. Hyacinth Grubb, O.P.) >> The Insufferability of Sanctity
• Dymphna's Road >> Three great saints
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Ascensions
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Sam Gregg: False mercy and emotivism
• Lectio Divina Notes (Kate Edwards) >> Vigil of the Ascension
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> Robert Spaemann alarmed by Amoris Laetitia: fears rupture, schism
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Kevin Di Camillo) >> How the Leonine Prayers Helped Create the Vatican State and Crushed the Soviet Union
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> Palestrina Mass for the OF Vigil of Pentecost in New York City 
• Roman Catholic Man (Fr. Richard Heilman) >> Nine-Day Preparation for Consecration – Day One
• Roman Catholic Man (Fr. Richard Heilman) >> The Post-Vatican II Experiment – The Results Are In ("...And, if we hoped things were getting any better since this 2002 study, a recent CARA study found that, just since AD 2000, 14 million more Catholics have left the faith, parish religious education of children has dropped by 24%, Catholic school attendance has dropped by 19%, infant baptism has dropped by 28%, adult baptism has dropped by 31%, and sacramental Catholic marriages have dropped by 41%...")
• St. Corbinian's Bear >> New Pope Video: Women Make Poor Employees?
• The Catholic Thing (Hadley Arkes) >> A Guide for the Perplexed 
• These Stone Walls (Fr. Gordon MacRae) >> A Mother’s Day Letter from Dante’s Purgatorio
• Vultus Christi (A Benedictine Monk of Perpetual Adoration) >> Behold, I am here
• Watts Up With That? (Anthony Watts) >> Claim: climate change to make Middle East ‘uninhabitable’, spur mass exodus