Alleluia

Alleluia

O virga mediatrix

sancta viscera tua mortem
superaverunt,
et venter tuus omnes
creaturas illuminavit
in pulchro flore de
suavissima integritate
clausi pudoris tui orto.

Alleluia.

Hildegard of Bingen: Alleluia, O virga mediatrix

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Our church was across from the train tracks and park on Florence Ave., a few blocks away from Market St. and Inglewood High School. We couldn’t go anywhere without driving by it. Our folks would do the cross thing every time. It was a perfectly white building for most of its history and then got switched to brown a few years before I left. That amuses me. The Jesus statue inside is still immaculate, though, as is the one of his Mother holding him when he was a baby. His wounds are probably freshened up with a coat of paint for Easter.