Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

WDTPRS has a nice article on "1st Passion Sunday" or Iudica Sunday by Father Zuhlsdorf . Patrick Archbold of Summorum Pontificum has a link to a nice story, "Bishop D'Arcy Steps Up," about the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend . Jeffrey Tucker of the New Liturgical Movement has a link to a story describing the Return of Chant to Tulsa, OK . Don't miss the Book Review (just below) that was posted on this blog late yesterday ! It was saved in draft format so it appeared "below" an earlier story. It introduces our newest blogger, Cogitations of a Catholic Bookworm, with a review of "GOD's Secret Agents" by Alice Hogge .

GOD'S Secret Agents QUEEN ELIZABETH’S Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the GUNPOWDER PLOT by Alice Hogge “Southwell was lifted into the cart. This was the moment he had waited for all his life. ‘Take now your rest in the shade,’ he had written nine years earlier, ‘and open your mouths to draw in breath, so that when your hour comes, you too may go down into the sun-scorched arena.’ Tyburn in February had become Southwell’s sun-scorched arena now and he was ready. He commended into God’s hands the Queen, his country and his soul. The hangman stripped him to his shirt and placed the noose about his neck. ‘While we live we conquer, nor shall we be less victorious if we die,’ he had written. Now he made the sign of the cross, murmuring, “ in manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum. ’ And slowly the cart was drawn away.” (God’s Secret Agents, p. 190) Thus was ended at Tyburn Tree the life of Saint Robert Southwell: priest, martyr, poet, Englishman. St. Robert Southwel