

A Place of Thanksgiving
After surviving some great crisis or recovering from an illness, many people are motivated to give thanks. In Exodus 16 and 17, we are...


A Place of Healing
It has been said that the discarded crutches, canes, braces, wheelchairs, and messages of thanksgiving that hang from the adobe walls in...
The Best Place on Earth
Chicago, Illinois December 2008 Arriving back in Chicago from New Mexico at the end of September 2008, I was suddenly struck by a...
Look At The Little Boy...
4 March, 2010 Santo Niño de Atocha Church, When I was very young, in the third or fourth grade, my father, Francisco, was critically ill...
They Left the Church...
20 October 2006 Father, I called you two days ago about my daughter and her husband. They left the church about eight years ago. The...
The Holy Dirt
September 2012 Dear El Santuario de Chimayo I’m writing this letter to tell you how grateful I am. About a month ago I was having very...
The Church of Chimayo
As we drove up to the humble terra cotta adobe church I smiled. Here, the renowned "church of miracles" stood, timeless and welcoming. I...
An Interview with George Mendoza
Part of the experience of making a pilgrimage to El Santuario de Chimayó is to enter the tiny and cramped chamber of the "pocito", the...
Ruby Didn’t Need the Surgery After All....
October 2005 Last month, Toni and her husband, Steve, adopted their second baby girl from China. Ruby is 10 months old. At her first...
New Year’s Blessings
December 22, 2008 Dear blessed Fr. Roca, I was most pleased to see an article in the New York Times about you and your work at the...