Morning Roundup - Ember Saturday of Advent - Missa 'Veni Et Osténde' - Sabbato Quattuor Temporum Adventus - December 23rd, 2017

Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord - In Vigilia Nativitatis Domini - Missa 'Hódie Sciétis' - December 24th, 2017 - Propers
Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 18th, 2017 to December 24th, 2017 - Ordo for the Week (Christmas Proclamation Links)

• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Flowers for the Immaculate Conception (Did I see that before? [Homily] edition)
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Robert Tanitch) >> Hamilton review – the rise and fall of a scrappy orphan who shaped America
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Michael Davis) >> Cardinal Law’s overlooked legacy: a new anti-clericalism in America’s Catholic heartland
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Associated Press) >> Corruption claims are an attempt to smear Cardinal Maradiaga, says aide
• Catholic Stand (Cynthia Millen) >> The Wait: A True Advent Story of Hope
• Catholic Stand (Patrick Malone) >> T.S. Eliot and Dreading Christmas
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saturday in Ember Week
• Clutching My Rosary >> Seventh Antiphon
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> The Truer Gift at Christmas – As Seen in a Commercial
• Cosmos + Sun (Fr. Mark White) >> The Drama of Our Lady’s Yes
• Dymphna's Road >> Tacky, blasphemous and insulting -- the Vatican Nativity scene
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> CELTIC
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Too ashamed to go to confession?
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 2017 21: A person may be silent, and yet have a frightening noise inside
• JimmyAkin.Com >> The Mystery of the Beloved Disciple
• LifeNews.Com (Micaiah Bilger) >> NFL Player Who Refused to Meet Pro-Abortion President Obama to Headline March for Life
• Lifezette (Tom Joyce) >> Sports World Lost a Legend in Dick Enberg
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Mike Genin) >> J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbits Contemplate the Nativity
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Tom Nash) >> You Can’t Have the Crib Without the Cross
• The Catholic Thing (Fr. Mark A. Pilon) >> The Paradoxical Structure of the Kingdom
• The New Emangelization - Catholic Men’s Evangelization >> Catholic Men’s Daily Devotional and Bible Study – 3rd Week of Advent – December 23 – Luke 1:57-66
• The Wanderer Newspaper (Derek Becher) >> Jacob’s Gift
• The Wanderer Newspaper (Derek Becher) >> Garlands In The Sky
• The Wanderer Newspaper (Don Fier) >> The Sacramentality Of Marriage
• Views From the Choir Loft (Veronica Brandt) >> Epiphany Proclamation 2018
• Vultus Christi (Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration) >> Christmass at Silverstream Priory
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> He's Here! (Well, Almost)