Morning Roundup - Ember Wednesday of Advent - Missa 'Roráte Cæli' - December 20th, 2017

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) >> Card. Bernard Law goes before Jesus
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Luke Coppen) >> Morning Catholic must-reads: 20/12/17
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Catholic News Service) >> Cardinal Law, central figure of the Boston sex abuse scandal, dies aged 86
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Catholic News Service) >> Young people increasingly attracted to Gregorian chant
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Joseph Shaw) >> How observing the Ember Days can enhance your spiritual life
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Ed Condon) >> The curia’s biggest problem? The rule of law is being overlooked
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Paolo Gambi) >> Here’s why I’m not worried about the Pope answering the dubia
• Catholic Stand (James Hooper) >> Persevering This Christmas
• Catholic Stand (Paul Kniaz) >> Social Media Takes on Prayer: Why We Pray and Act
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Aurora C. Griffin >> Life in “Little Rome,” in the heart of Washington, D.C.
• Clutching My Rosary >> Wednesday in Ember Week
• Clutching My Rosary >> Fourth Antiphon
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> The Bridegroom is Near
• Courageous Priest (John Quinn) >> Religious Leaders Affirm Beauty of Being “Created Male and Female”
• Crisis Magazine (Elizabeth Anderson) >> The Wisdom in Wonder: Children at Christmas Time
• Crisis Magazine (Anthony P. Stine) >> Why St. Gregory’s University Is Closing Its Doors
• Dominicana Journal  (Br. Simon Teller, O.P.) >> Am I Praying Right?
• First Things (George Weigel) >> The Crèche and the Gap
• Fr Ray Blake's Blog >> End of the Commission for the Protection of Minors
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> S AMBROSE and Female Modesty
• Fr. Dwight Longenecker >> On Being a Joyful Curmudgeon
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 2017 18: The Divine Soldier
• Lectio Divina Notes (Kate Edwards) >> St Thomas (December 21)
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> Cardinal Sarah scheduled to celebrate the traditional Latin Mass for anticipated 15,000 at the Chartre Pilgrimage in 2018
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Rachel Lanz) >> Keeping the ‘Good Cheer’ This Christmas
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (K.V. Turley) >> A Curious History of Christmas in Great Britain
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >>  Gaudete and Rorate Photopost 2017 (Part 1)
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> PCED Ordo for 2018 Now Available  
• Releasing the Arrow (Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.) >> HOMILY for 20 December Isa 7:10-14; Ps 23; Luke 1:26-38
• The Catholic Thing (Randall Smith) >> The Desert Flowers: The Gospel and Isaiah
• The New Emangelization - Catholic Men’s Evangelization >> Catholic Men’s Daily Devotional and Bible Study – 3rd Week of Advent – December 20 – Luke 1:26-38
• These Stone Walls (Fr. Gordon MacRae) >> Silent Night and the Dawn of Redeeming Grace
• The Wanderer Newspaper (Kevin Jones) >> Soros Money… Means Legal Trouble For Amnesty’s Ireland Abortion Campaign
• The Wanderer Newspaper (Dunstan Thompson) >> Fragment For Christmas
• Vultus Christi (Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration) >> 20 December, O CLAVIS DAVID
• Vultus Christi (Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration) >> The much- longed-for virgin
• Vultus Christi (Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration) >> Ave, gratia plena