Christmas Day Roundup - December 25th, 2018

† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 24th, 2018 to December 30th, 2018 - Ordo for the Week

• American Thinker (Monica Showalter) >> Tiny Ecuador demonstrates world's stupidest idea: Dumping America to become China's running dog
• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Christmas Gifts: Happy Christmas Heavenly Father!
• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Proclamation of the Nativity of Jesus: Roman Martyrology misses the plot
• Atonement Online (Fr. Christopher George Phillips) >> St. Francis and the Crèche
• BIG C CATHOLICS (Matthew Coffin) >> Homily for the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord, [Christmas Day] December 25, 2018, Year C  (Fr. Charles Irvin)
• Bonfire of the Vanities (Fr Martin Fox) >> What is Christmas about? (Christmas homily)
• Catholic Stand (Father John Catoir) >> The Theology of Christmas
• Catholic Stand (David Torkington) >> From Bethlehem to Greccio with St Francis of Assisi
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Carl E. Olson) >> The scandalous, glorious point of Christmas
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Peter M.J. Stravinskas) >> “Venite, adoremus.  Come, let us adore Him.”
• ChurchMilitant.com (Church Militant) >> The House of Christmas
• ChurchMilitant.com (Church Militant) >> Born to Suffer and Die
• Clutching My Rosary >> Christmas Morning—The Third Mass
• CNA Daily News (Mary Rezac) >> The life of a hermit: A glimpse inside the little-known state of life
• CNA Daily News (Courtney Grogan) >> Pope’s Christmas Wish: Peace & brotherhood in world’s conflicts 
• CNA Daily News (Hannah Brockhaus) >> Midnight Mass in Beruit 
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> I Hear Music in the Air – A Homily For Christmas Midnight
• Cosmos + Sun (Fr. Mark White) >>  Simple Light
• Crisis Magazine (Fr. Robert Johansen) >> Waiting in Hope
• Crisis Magazine (Sean Fitzpatrick) >> Why The Worst Christmas Story is Worth Reading
• Dominicana  (Br. Stephen Ruhl, O.P.) >> What Child Is This?
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> CHRISTMASCAzT 2018 24: Christ born homeless at home
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> WDTPRS – 2nd Mass of Christmas (1962MR): bathed in new light
• IN LUMINE FIDEI (Rita Bogna) >> 26 DECEMBER – SAINT STEPHEN (Proto-Martyr)
• Integrated Catholic Life (Deacon Michael Bickerstaff) >> Love’s Greatest Gift
• Lectio Divina Notes (Kate Edwards, Benedictine Office) >> Feast of St Stephen (December 26)
• man with black hat (David L. Alexander) >> Christmastide: Day 1 (Nativity)
• National Catholic Bioethics Blog (Pope Francis) >> Pope Francis’ 2018 ‘Urbi et Orbi’ Christmas Message
• New Liturgical Movement (David Clayton) >> Christianity’s Neglected Cultural Weapons - Signs and Symbols
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >>  Merry Christmas!
• OnePeterFive (Steve Skojec) >> Merry Christmas!
• Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter - The Missive >> Merry Christmas!
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Fontgombault Sermon for Christmas Day: "On Christmas, a mystery of love beyond measure is fulfilled."
• The Babylon Bee >> Public Service Announcement: You May Now Play Christmas Music
• The Catholic Thing (St. Augustine of Hippo) >> God’s Gratuitous Gift
• The Imaginative Conservative (G.K. Chesterton) >> “The God in the Cave”
• The Stream (Isabel Debre) >>  Bethlehem Boasts Largest Christmas in Years
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> "Lord, I Want To Realize... That You Are The Bread of My Life"

Wishing All A Holy And Blessed Christmas!