I always read with interest the section of TLC titled "Around the Dioceses," and find the accompanying geographic sketches of the states and their diocesan boundaries quite helpful and educational.

Upon reading the March 25 issue of TLC with news from the Diocese of Southern Virginia, I noted that the Commonwealth was correctly shown as having three ecclesiastical divisions with Southern Virginia "grayed-in" for proper identification. I then observed, alas, that although the 70 miles of the beautiful DelMarVa Peninsula which belong to Virginia are shown on the map, they are not designated as being part of the Diocese of Southern Virginia. It would be nice if the appropriate sketch were revised so that the counties of Accomack and Northampton, which constitute the Eastern Shore of Virginia, are properly "grayed-in," thus designating these counties and their seven missions and parishes as part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction to which they have belonged since the establishment of the Diocese of Southern Virginia.

You shall be called blessed for more accurate cartography.

(The Rev.) James H. Newsom, Jr.

Suffolk, Va.