Morning News Roundup - Thursday after Ash Wednesday - Commemoration: St. Simeon, Bishop & Martyr - February 18th, 2021

† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - February 15th, 2021 to February 21st, 2021 - Ordo for the Week | Ash Wednesday | First Sunday of Lent |

• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> I see people looking like trees and walking
• Being Is Good (Deacon Dana) >> Bible Study Reflection #30: Wheat and Weeds
• CatholicCulture.Org - Commentary (Fr. Jerry Pokorsky) >> Defining Racism
• CatholicCulture.Org - Liturgical Year >> Feb. 18 Thursday After Ash Wednesday, Weekday
• Catholic Daily Readings.Org >> Catholic Daily Mass Readings for February 18 2021, Thursday after Ash Wednesday – Homily
• Catholic Exchange >> Thursday after Ash Wednesday
• Catholic Exchange (Saints Editor) >> St. Simon (or Simeon)
• Catholic Exchange (Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet) >> The Truth & the Life: A Meditation for Lent
• Catholic Exchange (Constance T. Hull) >> Lent is a Time to Grow in Love Through Charity & Penance
• Catholic Exchange (Michele Chronister) >> The Lord is Just (and Merciful)
• Catholic Stand (Edward Benet) >> Western Civilisation Is Possessed By an Impure Spirit
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Larry Chapp) >> A powerful analysis of American awakening, fracturing, and addicting
• ChurchMilitant.com (Rodney Pelletier) >> Persecuted Priests
• ChurchMilitant.com (The Vortex - Michael Voris, S.T.B.) >> Detroit’s Gay ‘Double Standard’
• CNA Daily News (CNA) >> 40 Days for Life kicks off Lenten campaign
• Crisis Magazine (Kennedy Hall) >> A Proper Re-Education
• Crisis Magazine (Eric Sammons) >> Rush Limbaugh, Defender of Life
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Powell, OP) >> We start with a choice
• First Things (John Wilson) >> The Gratuitous Abundance of Books
• First Things (Wesley J. Smith) >> Warning Signs in the Golden State
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment  (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Oz and ends
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> LENTCAzT 2021: 02 – Thursday after Ash Wednesday: “Give back some of God’s gifts to God”
• Gatestone Institute - Articles (Majid Rafizadeh) >> Iran: The Mullah's Pursuit of Obtaining Nuclear Weapons
• Integrated Catholic Life (Theresa Thomas) >> Living Simply This Lent
• LifeSiteNews (Emily Mangiaracina) >> Pro-life, pro-black, pro-American film ‘Divided Hearts of America’ hits Amazon
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> Durandus on the Liturgical Customs of Lent
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >>  Psalms in the Byzantine Lenten Office
• OnePeterFive (OnePeterFive) >> “Try Harder.” – A Mother Reacts to Counterintuitive Spiritual Advice
• Public Discourse (Carson Holloway) >> Orwell, Atheism, and Totalitarianism
• RORATE CÆLI (Francesca Romana) >> Don Pietro Leone: THE ENEMY WITHIN: PART II : A Historical Perspective
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> PopeWatch: Hope the Thirty Pieces of Silver Were Worth It
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> Lent With Job and Saint Thomas Aquinas: Chapter Two
• The Catholic Thing (Stephen P. White) >> The Catholic Project, Two Years On
• The +Ecu-Men+ >> Thursday after Ash Wednesday
• The +Ecu-Men+ >> February 18 – St Simeon, Bishop & Martyr
• The Ethical Skeptic >> The Five Species of Syndicate and Their Dissent
• The Imaginative Conservative (Michael De Sapio) >> Art and Grace: St. Fra Angelico
• Victor Davis Hanson | National Review >> Our Descent into Collective Madness