Morning News Roundup - Ember Wednesday of Advent - December 18th, 2019

† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 16th, 2019 to December 22nd, 2019 - Ordo for the Week - Season of Advent

• CatholicCulture.Org - Liturgical Year >> Dec. 18 Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent, Weekday 
• Catholic Exchange (Julie Onderko) >> Saint Perpetua, Mystic Warrior
• Catholic Exchange (Fr. Tim McCauley) >> Christ’s Love Can Heal Low Mass Attendance
• Catholic Exchange (Sarah Reinhard) >> Why I Turn to Mary in the Third Week of Advent
• Catholic Journal (Deacon Kurt Godfryd) >> You Will See My Glory
• Catholic Restoration (Joseph Pio) >> Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Catholic Restoration (Joseph Pio) >> The Ember Days of December
• Catholic Stand (Paul Kniaz) >> The Prayer of Azariah and Our Need to Thank God
• Catholic Stand (Deacon John Bacon) >> Growth Stages in Our Relationship with God
• ChurchMilitant.com (The Vortex - Michael Voris, S.T.B.) >> This Has Got to End
• Clutching My Rosary >> Second Antiphon
• Clutching My Rosary >> Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 
• Clutching My Rosary >> Wednesday in Ember Week
• CNA Daily News (Kevin Jones) >> Teens deserve better than Planned Parenthood in LA schools, critics say
• CNA Daily News (Jonah McKeown) >> Priests respond to Archbishop Paglia: 'Accompaniment isn't directionless'
• CNA Daily News (Hannah Brockhaus) >> Pope Francis: Nativity scenes show a 'domestic Gospel'
• Crisis Magazine (Fr. Mario Alexis Portella) >> The Fight for Traditional Marriage Isn’t Over
• Crisis Magazine (Charles Coulombe) >> Quo Vadis, Europa?
• Dominicana  (Br. Simon Teller, O.P.) >> Cosmic Wreath
• Dymphna's Road >> Do you STILL have your Netflix account?
• Edward Feser >> New from Oderberg
• First Things (George Weigel) >> The Well-Fought Fight
• Fr. Kevin Estabrook >> December 18 2019 - The Lord our Justice
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment  (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Breakfast with the Bishop: Only for English Hellenists
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 2019 18: It’s your inalienable right to decide
• IN LUMINE FIDEI (Rita Bogna) >> 18 DECEMBER – EMBER WEDNESDAY IN ADVENT
• Integrated Catholic Life (Editor) >> Daily Catholic Quote — O Adonai
• LifeSiteNews (Dorothy Cummings McLean) >> Dominican theologian: ‘I will not accompany you while you hang yourself’
• LifeSiteNews (Doug Mainwaring) >> Priest: John the Baptist would oppose LGBT, pro-abortion politicians, Pachamama
• LifeSiteNews (Martin M. Barillas) >> Exorcists warn: Mainstream culture working overtime to sell satanism to children
• LifeSiteNews (Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent) >> Dutch cardinal: It would be a ‘scandal’ for a priest to be present at an assisted suicide
• LifeSiteNews (John-Henry Westen Show) >> Theologian corrects Vatican Bishop who said priests could accompany assisted suicide victims
• man with black hat (David L. Alexander) >> Novena for Christ-Mass: O Adonai
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> Reading the O Antiphons Forward
• One Mad Mom >> If Only She Had Been Allowed to go to Woodstock
• +Pseudoclasm+ >> Wednesday of Ember Week
• SCUTUM ET LORICA (Aquae Regiae) >> The Clerical Mental Health Maelstrom
• SCUTUM ET LORICA (Aquae Regiae) >> The Sacred Amnesia
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> PopeWatch: Just in Time for Christmas
• The Catholic Thing (Randall Smith) >>Politicizing the Eucharist?
• Vultus Christi (Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration) >> 18 December, O ADONAI

Ad Vesperas

Canticum: Magnificat {Antiphona ex Proprio de Tempore}
Ant. O Adonái et Dux domus Israël, qui Móysi in igne flammæ rubi apparúisti, et ei in Sina legem dedísti: veni ad rediméndum nos in brácchio exténto.

Canticum: Magnificat {Antiphon from the Proper of the season}
Ant. O Adonai, and Ruler of the house of Israel, who didst appear unto Moses in the burning bush, and gavest him the law in Sinai; come, to redeem us with an outstretched arm!