Saturday Roundup - 7th Day in the Octave of Christmas - Commemora.: St. Sylvester I, Pope & Conf. - December 31st, 2016

Octave Day of Christmas - Die Octavae Nativitatis Domini - Missa 'Puer Natus Est' - January 1st, 2017 - Propers
Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 26th, 2016 to January 1st, 2017 - Ordo for the Week

• ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP (Bishop Emeritus Rene Gracida) >> AMBIGUITY IS THE WEAPON OF CHOICE IN THE VATICAN TODAY
• Catholic Answers (Jimmy Akin) >> Dating the Birth of Jesus
• Catholic Sacristan (Isten Joe) >> A few reasons why Tradition-minded Catholics love the Extraordinary Form.
• Catholic Stand (Brandon Schild) >> Pray Without Deadly Sin
• Catholic Stand (Birgit Jones) >> The Gift of Unanswered Prayer
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saint Sylvester, Pope and Confessor
• Communio (Paul Zalonski) >> St Sylvester
• Communio (Paul Zalonski) >> Prayer at the end of the year, at the beginning 
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Love Finds a Way – As Seen in a Commercial
• Dymphna's Road >> another favorite Nativity
• Edward Feser >> Auld links syne
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Ecumenical voices
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ASK FATHER: Can priests say the “Tridentine Mass” alone, without a server?
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ASK FATHER: Which superhero would you be?
• Lectio Divina Notes (Kate Edwards) >> Octave of the Nativity (Jan 1)
• Liturgia Latina (David Forster) >> On the closing of another year: Prayer of St Augustine for Mercy
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Dave Armstrong) >> Martin Luther's “Immaculate Purification” View of Mary
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Brian O'Neel) >> Turning Out the Lights on 2016
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> St Ambrose’s Christmas Hymn Veni, Redemptor Gentium
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> Te Deum on New Year’s Eve
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Plenary Indulgence reminders: Te Deum on Dec. 31 Veni Creator on Jan. 1
• Shameless Popery (Joe Heschmeyer) >> Why I Believe in Women Priests (Sort of)
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> TWO POINTS OF VIEW ON THE CURRENT CRISIS: ARE BOTH HYSTERICAL AND UNREALISTIC?
• The Catholic Thing (Michale Pakaluk) >> The Mystery in the Christ Child’s Smile
• The Imaginative Conservative (James Harrigan) >> The Balkanization of a Boutique World
• The Imaginative Conservative (Bruce Frohnen) >> Emerson, Lake, & Palmer: The Curtain Descends on the Show That Never Ends
• V for Victory! (Anita Moore, O.P., Esq.) >> The Passing Scene: 2016  (Marvelous retrospective on 2016!)
• Views From the Choir Loft (Richard J. Clark) >> Mary was one of the strongest women to ever walk planet Earth.

Transition:  Sandro Magister's marvelous blog at Chiesa is shutting down at midnight 2016. His new blog is called Settimo Cielo which is in Italian only.  I will continue to follow him, but hope he manages an English translation!



Te Deum  
We praise thee, O God, * we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.
All the earth doth worship thee, * the Father everlasting.
To thee all Angels cry aloud, * the Heavens, and all the Powers therein.
To thee Cherubim and Seraphim * continually do cry.

(bow head) Holy, Holy, Holy * Lord God of Sabaoth;

Heaven and earth are full * of the Majesty of thy glory.
The glorious company of the Apostles * praise thee.
The goodly fellowship of the Prophets * praise thee.
The noble army of Martyrs * praise thee.
The holy Church throughout all the world * doth acknowledge thee;
The Father, * of an infinite Majesty.
Thine honourable, true, * and only Son;
Also the Holy Ghost, * the Comforter.
Thou art the King of Glory, * O Christ.
Thou art the everlasting * Son of the Father.

During the following verse all make a profound bow:
When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, * thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb.

When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, * thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.
Thou sittest at the right hand of God, * in the glory of the Father.
We believe that thou shalt come * to be our Judge.

Kneel for the following verse
We therefore pray thee, help thy servants, * whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious Blood.

Make them to be numbered with thy Saints, * in glory everlasting.
O Lord, save thy people, * and bless thine heritage.
Govern them, * and lift them up for ever.
Day by day * we magnify thee;

During the following verse, by local custom, all make a profound bow.
And we worship thy Name * ever, world without end.

Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us * this day without sin.
O Lord, have mercy upon us, * have mercy upon us.
O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us, * as our trust is in thee.
O Lord, in thee have I trusted, * let me never be confounded.