Morning News Roundup - 7th Day in the Octave of Christmas - Commemoration: St. Sylvester I, Pope & Confessor - December 31st, 2020

† Octave Day of Christmas (the Circumcision) - Die Octavæ Nativitatis Domini - Missa 'Puer Natus Est' - January 1st, 2021 - Propers

† Latin Mass Proper: ExtraordinaryForm.Org (PDF), 7th Day in the Octave of Christmas - Commemoration: St. Sylvester I, Pope & Confessor - December 31st, 2020

† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 28th, 2020 to January 3rd, 2021 - Ordo for the Week | Octave Day of Christmas | Most Holy Name of Jesus |

• American Thinker (Andrea Widburg) >> Incriminating facts emerge from a Georgia hearing the media buried
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• CatholicCulture.Org - Liturgical Year >> Dec. 31 Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas; Optional Memorial of St. Sylvester I, pope, Opt. Mem.
• Catholic Daily Readings.Org >>  Catholic Daily Mass Readings for December 31 2020, The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas – Daily Homily
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• Catholic Exchange (Saints Editor) >> Pope St. Sylvester I
• Catholic Exchange >> The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas
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• CNA Daily News (Mary Farrow) >> Why a new consecration to St. Joseph is spreading like wildfire 
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• Integrated Catholic Life (Randy Hain) >> Keeping the Memory of Christmas and Resisting the Siren Call of Our Culture
• man with black hat (David L. Alexander) >> Christmastide: Day 7 (St Sylvester)
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> Renovation of Kalamazoo Cathedral by Duncan Stroik
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• Don Surber >> Highlights of the News
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> Predictions 2021
• The Catholic Thing (Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky) >> A Pastor on the Vaccines
• The +Ecu-Men+ >> December 31 – St Sylvester, Pope & Confessor
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