Santuario de Chimayo

Last Friday we journeyed to the Santuario de Chimayo near Sangre Center. Chimayo is a small church in the hills of Sangre. This is one of the significant and holy places in New Mexico where pilgrims come to this little church to pray and make intercessions for family and friends. On Good Friday during the Lenten Holy Week, there are 25,000 people from all over northern New Mexico and visitors who walk to this place of pilgrimage. Some walk from Albuquerque covering a distance of over 80 miles. Here at Sangre some of the participants have participated with the pilgrims walking 25 miles starting at 3:30am and completing their journey around 10am. This year I hope to join in this pilgrimage walking only 9 miles to the Church. I think that I will be able to manage 9 miles on Good Friday. I will be praying for family and friends as I join some of the religious men and women here at Sangre Center during this pilgrimage to Chimayo.