From the Council of Trent to Benedict XVI's Motu Proprio

A new generation of Catholics is discovering the beauty, reverence, appropriateness, and efficacy of the Tridentine Mass. The Traditional Latin Mass, as the saying goes, is "the Mass the martyrs died for." It is also the Mass the faithful lived for and which gave life to them and to the Church itself. This small volume is designed to humbly guide you in an appreciation of the Traditional Latin Mass' beauties, coherence, logic, aesthetics, glories, and graces.

Featuring the works of:

* The Council of Trent

* Pius V

* Pius X

* Pius XI

* Pius XII

* John XXIII

* Paul VI

* John Paul II

* Benedict XVI

* St. Charles Borromeo

* Fr. Adrian Fortescue

* Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman

* Dom Fernand Cabrol

* Michael Davies

* Fr. Uwe Michael Lang

* Bp. Athanasius Schneider

* Micheal S. Rose

. . . and more.

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"I am sure that this book will help many to better understand the great graces that have been opened again to the whole Church by the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum."

—Msgr. R. Michael Schmitz, Vicar General in the Institute of Christ the King, Provincial Superior for the Institute in the United States

"belongs in the library of any Catholic person or organization devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass. . . . If the priest who says that form in your parish or chapel doesn't already have a copy, it would make a most appropriate gift."

—Una Voce America Nota

"a much needed work . . . a precious gem in our library of liturgical works."

—Fr. C. Frank Phillips, Canons Regular of St. John Cantius

"David Pietrusza's 'Sursum Corda' makes the strongest case of all that the Latin Mass for which martyrs died is not only alive and vibrant today but growing. Here are all the documents from the Council of Trent in which the traditional Latin Mass was conceived to the Second Vatican Council which was interpreted to thwart it to Pope Benedict's "Summurum Pontificum" that encouraged its practice. This is must reading, not only for devotees of the Mass but for opponents and non-Catholics to understand why it means so much after 500 years."

—John Gizzi, White House Correspondent, Newsmax