Morning News Roundup - St. Thomas, Apostle - Commemoration: Ember Saturday - December 21st, 2019

† Fourth Sunday of Advent (Roráte Sunday) - Dominica Quarta Adventus - Missa 'Roráte Cæli' - December 22nd, 2019 - Propers
† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 16th, 2019 to December 22nd, 2019 - Ordo for the Week - Season of Advent

• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Some Christmas Fruitcake Humor
• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Holy See nixes Missionaries of Mercy International Meeting of 2020. 2021?
• CatholicCulture.Org - Liturgical Year >>  Dec. 21 Saturday of the Third Week of Advent; Optional Memorial of St. Peter Canisius, priest and doctor, Opt. Mem.
• Catholic Exchange (Saints Editor) >> St. Peter Canisius
• Catholic Journal (William Borst) >> The Prisoner
• Catholic Restoration (Joseph Pio) >> Saint Philogonius
• Catholic Restoration (Joseph Pio) >> Saint Thomas
• Catholic Stand (Tom Collingwood) >> Should the Church be Saving Souls or Saving Society?
• Catholic Stand (Lilia Borlongan-Alvarez) >> Shalom and the Sharp Ironies of Christmas 
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Paul Senz) >> New work of apologetics explains why the Bible is a Catholic book
• Clutching My Rosary >> Fifth Antiphon
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saturday in Ember Week
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saint Thomas, Apostle
• CNA Daily News (CNA) >>  What a decade! A look at the biggest Catholic stories of the 2010s
• CNA Daily News (Hannah Brockhaus) >> Church reform takes personal conversion, Pope Francis tells Roman Curia 
• CNA Daily News (Hannah Brockhaus) >> Pope Francis: A baby's smile is a sign of God’s love
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Mastering the Passions, as Seen in a Christmas Commercial
• Eccles Is Saved (Eccles) >> How to worship a life-jacket
• Edward Feser >> Cundy on relativity and the A-theory of time
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment  (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> ABSTINENCE DURING OCTAVES
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ASK FATHER: Altar boy notices priest skipped the consecration of the Precious Blood
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 2019 21: “It requires more courage than brains to know God”
• LifeSiteNews (Phil Lawler) >> Catholics should be outraged at Vatican’s Peter’s Pence bait-and-switch
• LifeSiteNews (Martin M. Barillas) >> Brazil Congress denounces Netflix’s ‘gay Jesus’ comedy, summons streaming service to hearing
• LifeSiteNews (LifeSiteNews Staff) >> Christmas displays with Baby Jesus put up at over half of US state capitols
• man with black hat (David L. Alexander) >> Novena for Christ-Mass: O Oriens
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Kathy Schiffer) >> The O Antiphons, the Beatles and the Bible Code
• OnePeterFive (OnePeterFive) >>  1P5 Podcast #56 – Alexander Tschugguel
• +Pseudoclasm+ >> Saturday in Ember Week
• +Pseudoclasm+ >> December 21 – St Thomas, Apostle
• +Pseudoclasm+ >> Ecu-Minute #3: The Bible
• RORATE CÆLI (Francesca Romana) >> De Mattei: The ‘Mestizo’ Theology of Pope Francis
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Dominus Meus et Deus Meus! - Saint Thomas the Apostle's Day is TODAY
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> Veni Veni Emmanuel
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> PopeWatch: A Christmas Carol
• The Catholic Thing (Brad Miner) >> A “Carol” for the Ages
• Vultus Christi (Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration) >> 21 December, O ORIENS

Ad Vesperas
Canticum: Magnificat {Antiphona ex Proprio de Tempore}
Ant. O Óriens splendor lucis ætérnæ, et sol iustítiæ: veni, et illúmina sedéntes in ténebris, et umbra mortis

Canticum: Magnificat {Antiphon from the Proper of the season}
Ant. O Day-Spring, brightness of the everlasting Light, Sun of Righteousness; come, to give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death!