St Rose of Lima Church

This is the church I was baptized in… and subsequently every other good Catholic girl’s rites of passage… including going to pray for my sins after losing my virginity. I prayed for an hour, on my knees in front of the alter on the lefthand side but it was never restored. *le sigh*
They have real wine in that chalice.
Sometimes I like to go and just sit in the pews. Looking at the pillars that have been painted to look like marble and remember how much more I liked them when they were just white. The mural at the altar was restored within the past 5 years so the colors are amazing. When I was a little girl, I made a deal that when I became rich I would pay to have the stained glass windows cleaned one piece at a time, with a q-​tip (it seemed to me to be the best way to get into the crevices.) and I still plan to do that. One day.