Christ of the Desert Monastery
Christ of the Desert Monastery is a Catholic church at 1305 Forest Road 151 in Abiquiu, NM 87510.
At the Monastery of Christ in the Desert there lives a community of monks each of whom and as a community seek to be in union with God.
1305 Forest Road 151, Abiquiu, NM, 87510Service times
- Sunday 9:15am · Conventual Mass is
Phone: +1 575 613-4233 · Website: https://christdesert.org/
Christ of the Desert Monastery is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 284 congregations of the Catholic family gather across New Mexico — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Christ of the Desert Monastery
It takes 17.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
- Food Insecurity: 21.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (3.7–18.6%)
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Social Isolation: 31.5%
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (5.1–27.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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