Congratulations to the parishioners of

San Antonio in Tajique!

Saturday evening was a blessing for the whole village of Tajique as we prayed Vespers then blessed everyone with the Blessed Sacrament while on procession.

Thank you San Antonio for your intercession for all of us.

Thank you to Fr. Angelo for allowing us to have a planning team, making the celebrations of our patron saints better than they have been in a long time.

Thank you Deacon Lincoln for celebrating Vespers, Benediction and Exposition - plus the wonderful procession with our Blessed Sacrament.

Thank you to the wonderful Fiesta Planning Team and mayordomos for your time and hard work.

Thank you to the volunteers from SEAS, OLMC, and SSPP for representing your churches, and also to the Knights of Columbus for carrying your respective banners for the procession.

Thank you Deacon Lincoln for a wonderful homily with great information on San Antonio!

. . . and the wonderful procession with the Blessed Sacrament.

Thank you to all who joined us.

Thank you to the wonderful mayordomos who expressed such wonderful hospitality!

Sunday morning celebrations started with Mass and procession.

Thank you Fr. Angelo for a beautiful Mass...

Thank you to everyone who came to join us. The church was packed!

People were standing outside during Mass because we didn’t all fit inside!

Another wonderful procession in the beautiful weather.

Ending with a beautiful song. A long standing tradition is that on the Feast of the Patron Saint the “outgoing mayordomos” hand over the ministry to the “incoming mayordomos”.

It used to be that the mayordomos were one or two couples that took care of the church cleaning along with all the other duties.

Now in our parish we have several mayordomos with several different roles.

It was beautiful to hear the traditional song of the “entriega” from one set of mayordomos to another. Thank you for keeping the traditions alive!

On to more festivities!

We had approximately 150 people at the delicious meal prepared by the parishioners as a gift of hospitality and celebration to everyone who came join the celebration.

Thank you to all the wonderful cooks. The food was amazing!

More festivities included: Bingo...

Great job ladies! Thank you for running the Bingo. Thank you to those who donated prizes for the bingo! Thank you to San Antonio Church in Torreon for loaning us the Bingo game set up.

Thank you to the Estancia Valley Catholic Parish for the PA system.

Thank you to the ladies selling tickets.

It literally took a community at large to make this happen. Bingo prizes were donated by local parishioners as well as gift certificates from businesses from Tajique to Edgewood.

The little kid horse race game was a hit with the little ones.

Another parishwide effort! Thank you to a parishioner from SSPP in Estancia for letting us borrow the bench. Thank you to a parishioner from Edgewood for painting the bench, numbering the horses, and donating the prizes. Thank you to a parishioner from SSPP for donating the horses. Thank you for a parishioner from SA in Tajique for running the game most of the day.

Thank you to the Knights of Columbus for running the Cornhole Tournament, providing the prizes and providing all the drinks for everyone.

Thank you to all the parishioners for buying those delicious burritos from the Knights. This is one example of your money at work in our communities.

Thank you to the Knights for all your hard work.

Thank you to those who ran the Cake Walk Game. Thank you to the parishioner who donated all the cakes!

As you can see there were participants of all ages!

Also, Thank you to the musicians who gave us the gift of their music with accordion and guitar.

The photographer dropped the ball and didn’t take pictures of the musicians, oops.

Thank you to the parishioners of San Antonio Church in Tajique for your hospitality, generosity, and joy.

Thank you to everyone that came out to celebrate.

Thank you San Antonio for your intersession and answered prayers in such a blessed Celebration!