I am indebted to Gregory DiPippo over at Novus Motus Liturgicus for clearing up a few points of irritation I have had with the whole notion of the Octave of Christmas. It has become fashionable to say that it only acquired the name of circumcision later and that traditionally it was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. This would seem to vindicate at least in part NOChurch practice.
If we want to see on this a Earth a true shepherd and not a hireling - unlike the main man in Rome and his gang - then we could hardly do better than look towards Bishop Giovanni Martinelli, the bishop of Tripoli, who refuses to leave the city so long as there is a single Christian there.