Excellent 4 min video with FSSP priest explaining the enduring appeal of tradition to Catholics today.

The Virgin and Child with Saint John and an Angel (detail), about 1490, Workshop of Sandro Botticelli
St. Agnes’ Church in Amsterdam

Rood Screen of Saint Giles Catholic church, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England. This church was designed by A.W.N. Pugin.

My Sweetest Mother, Most Holy Theotokos, Panayia mou, please continue praying for me to your Son! Please continue helping me with everything, because I don’t have the strength to do it alone. I strongly need your intercessions..! May His Will be done, not mine.
All my hope I place in you, O Mother of God: keep me under your protection!

Church of the Savior on Blood, St. Petersburg, Russia by anastasia_rotten

The new pope, Francis I, in prayer before the icon of Mary in the Roman basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore this morning.
