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Local Area TLM's for Christmas Eve & Day, 2013

• A Priest Life (Fr. Kevin Cusick) >> Robbing the poor to pay "hired guns": Can a "poor Church for the poor" afford the luxury of consultants?
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> The Greater Gift – As seen in a touching Christmas Commercial
• Belief Blog (CNN) >> Why atheists should quit the 'War on Christmas’
• Bill Petro >> History of Mistletoe: Why is it the Kissing plant?
• Chiesa.expressonline.it (Fulvio Rampi) >> Masterpieces of Gregorian Chant / "Rorate caeli"
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Saint of the day: Peter Canisius
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Fr. Robert Barron comments on The Nativity of Luke's Gospel
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> POPES AND LAW
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> WDTPRS O Oriens: Winter Solstice and thoughts on time
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 21: 3rd Saturday of Advent – no power can take it from us
• Global Economic Warfare  (Kevin D. Freeman) >> The Chinese Don’t Want Dollars Anymore
• Godzdogz (The English Dominican Studentate) >> Advent 2013: 'O Oriens'
• Happy Catholic* (Julie D.) >> O Dayspring, Radiant Dawn
• Happy Catholic* (Julie D.) >> Christmas Jokes for the Weekend (and beyond)
• IDLE SPECULATIONS (Terry Prest) >> Happy Christmas and New Year
• Mulier Fortis (Mac McLernon) >> If You Can't Win Using Theology...
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> "Burke out, Wuerl in" - Update
• Postabortion journey, walk with me... (InfiniteGrace) >> Through the Eyes of Grace
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> THE BLINDNESS OF THE NEO-HETERODOX AND THE NEO-ORTHODOX AND POPE FRANCIS' GENIUS
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> BOMBSHELL! POPE FRANCIS ONCE AGAIN HOLDS UP AS A MODEL FOR THE CURRENT DAY CURIA, THE CURIALISTS OF THE PRE-VATICAN II CHURCH AND HOW THEY FUNCTIONED!
• St. Peter's List >> The 10 Authentic Trappist Monk Beers
• The Catholic Thing >> Morality and Its Interconnections  (Howard Kainz)
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Pope’s Christmas message to Curia: don’t be mediocre
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> The Catholic Roman Rite, The New and The Old, Don Pietro Leone # 8
• TRADITIONAL LATIN  MASS PROPERS IN ENGLISH (Deacon John Giglio Jr.) >> Saint Thomas the Apostle; Ember Saturday in Advent
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> December 21, O ORIENS
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> At Christmas "Greeting," Pope Cites When the Curia "Hinders the Spirit"... And the Church