Morning Roundup - 7th Day in the Octave of Christmas - Die Septima post Nativitatem - Missa 'Puer Natus Est' - December 31st, 2018

† Octave Day of Christmas - Die Octavæ Nativitatis Domini - Missa 'Puer Natus Est' - January 1st, 2019 - Propers
† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 31st, 2018 to January 6th, 2019 - Ordo for the Week

• ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP (Bishop Emeritus Rene Gracida) >> BISHOPS WHO ORDER THEIR PRIESTS TO GIVE HOLY COMMUNION TO NON-CATHOLICS WHENEVER THEY PRESENT THEMSELVES AT HOLY COMMUNION MUST BE DISOBEYED, BISHOPS CANNOT ORDER PRIESTS TO COMMIT SIN
• Atonement Online (Fr. Christopher George Phillips) >> Pope St. Sylvester
• Canticum Salomonis (Aelredus Rievallensis) >> St. Maurice of Vienne (3): On Lent
• Catholic Stand (Pete Socks) >> Padre Pio the TRUE story – Off the Shelf 105 with C. Bernard Ruffin
• Catholic World Report - Blog (David Paul Deavel) >> Christmas and the Catholic Consumer
• ChurchMilitant.com (Christine Niles, M.St. (Oxon.), J.D.) >> Vatican Blasted for Letting Abusive Clergy Off the Hook
• Clutching My Rosary >>  Saint Sylvester, Pope and Confessor
• CNA Daily News (Perry West) >> Why robot brothels are not the solution to America's STD crisis
• CNA Daily News (Hannah Brockhaus) >> Pope Francis accepts resignation of Vatican press office directors
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >>  Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? A Meditation on the Mystery of Time
• Crisis Magazine (Ines A. Murzaku) >> The Desecration of Churches Today
• Crisis Magazine (William Kilpatrick) >> Pope Francis, Indifferentism, and Islamization 
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Powell, OP) >>  Mary, Theotokos, Mother of God
• Dominicana (Br. Cornelius Avaritt, O.P.) >> Make No Resolutions
• First Things (The Editors) >>  Our Most Popular Articles of 2018
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Prognostications for 2019
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Are they really bishops? (1)
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> On changing the Italian text of the “Our Father”. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
• Frontpage Mag (Robert Spencer) >> Christians, Stop Saying Jesus Is the Son of God. It Provokes Muslims
• IN LUMINE FIDEI (Rita Bogna) >>  JANUARY – THE MONTH OF THE HOLY NAME
• Lectio Divina Notes (Kate Edwards, Benedictine Office) >> Octave Day of the Nativity
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Chriss Rainey) >> Catholics Under Attack
• Mahound's Paradise >> "Peter, this is the Lord himself! Abandon the position!" When a Future Pope Allegedly Pretended to be God to Induce the Current Pope to Resign
• man with black hat (David L. Alexander) >> Christmastide: Day 7 (St Sylvester)
• MondayVatican (Andrea Gagliarducci) >> Pope Francis, what if he shuts down Ecclesia Dei? 
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Father John P. Cush) >> 10 Modern Theologians You Should Know
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Patty Knap) >> University Gathers Huge Collection of Crèches from Around the World
• New Liturgical Movement (Peter Kwasniewski) >> At the End of One Year and the Start of Another: Stability within the Cycle
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Plenary Indulgence reminders: Te Deum on Dec. 31 Veni Creator on Jan. 1 
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >>  Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Melania the Younger
• The Catholic Thing (Robert Royal) >> Some Impractical, Imprudent (Possibly Impudent) New Year’s Resolutions
• The Imaginative Conservative (Jason Baxter) >> Why Read Old (Pagan) Books?
• The New Emangelization - Catholic Men’s Evangelization >> Catholic Men’s Daily Devotional – 7th Day in the Octave of the Nativity of Our Lord – John 1:1-18
• The Wanderer Newspaper (Fr. Kevin M. Cusick) >>  A Leaven In The World… AD 2019: Memory Makes Christ Present
• Unam Sanctam Catholicam (Boniface) >> The Cringiest Christmas Homily Ever
• V for Victory! (Anita Moore, O.P., Esq.) >> The Passing Scene: 2018
• Watts Up With That? (Charles the Moderator) >> Brace yourself for a brutal winter: Experts say disruptions in the polar vortex could cause temperatures to plummet in parts of the US