About Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission · Encino, New Mexico
Our Lady of Guadalupe is a small Catholic mission church in the village of Encino, New Mexico, set in the high plains of Torrance County in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. It is not an independent parish but one of four mission churches served from St. Mary Parish in nearby Vaughn, along with St. John the Baptist (Duran), San Jose (Pinos Wells), and historically St. Helen (Pastura). Mass is celebrated on alternating Saturday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in this shared rotation with the Duran mission, with the parish office reachable at (575) 584-2954. The mission sits at the corner of Main Street and Rosewood Avenue and serves a rural, predominantly Hispanic community with deep roots in the Guadalupe County / eastern Torrance County region.
- Patron
- Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Diocese
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Fe
Why belong here
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission offers the small Encino community a regular, accessible Catholic presence in the otherwise sparse eastern Torrance County plains. It shares a pastor and sacramental ministry with St. Mary Parish in Vaughn, which means visiting Catholics can count on Saturday evening Mass on a rotating schedule and a direct line to the parish office for baptisms, marriages, anointing of the sick, funerals, and faith formation. It is an ideal place for families rooted in the historic Hispanic villages around Encino, Duran, and Pinos Wells to maintain devotional ties to Our Lady of Guadalupe under the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
Mass times at Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission
Weekly Mass schedule
About Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission is a small Roman Catholic church serving the village of Encino in Torrance County, New Mexico. It belongs to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Fe and operates as a mission of St. Mary Parish in Vaughn, sharing clergy and a rotating sacramental schedule with neighboring mission churches in the surrounding plains. The mission's address is 210 Main Street at the corner of Rosewood Avenue.
Sister Missions
Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of four mission chapels historically attached to St. Mary Parish in Vaughn. Together they cover a wide stretch of eastern Torrance and former Guadalupe County, with Mass celebrated on a rotating basis at each chapel.
- St. John the Baptist — Duran (active mission, rotating Saturday Mass with Encino)
- San Jose — Pinos Wells (partially active)
- St. Helen — Pastura (listed among the parish's historic missions)
Parish Family: St. Mary, Vaughn
The mother parish for the Encino mission is St. Mary in Vaughn, located at 376 8th Street (Hwy 285) and Magnolia Street. St. Mary Parish celebrates Mass on Thursday and Friday mornings at 8:00 a.m. and on Saturday at 4:00 p.m., with the 6:00 p.m. Saturday liturgy rotating to either the Encino or Duran mission. Confessions are available at St. Mary on Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. or by appointment. The parish office, reachable at (575) 584-2954, serves all four mission communities.
- St. Mary Parish — 376 8th St., Vaughn, NM 88353
- Weekday Mass: Thursday & Friday 8:00 AM
- Saturday Vigil: 4:00 PM (then rotating 6:00 PM at Encino or Duran)
- Confessions: Saturday 3:30 PM or by appointment
Visiting & Contact
The mission can be reached through the St. Mary Parish office at (575) 584-2954, which also handles sacramental requests — baptisms, weddings, anointing of the sick, funerals, and religious education — for the Encino, Duran, Pinos Wells, and Pastura communities. There is no separate mission website; the Archdiocese of Santa Fe parish finder (archdiosf.org/parishfinder) is the canonical reference for this mission.
- Phone (parish office): (575) 584-2954
- Address: 210 Main St. (corner of Rosewood Ave.), Encino, NM 88321
- Website: https://archdiosf.org/parishfinder
Regional Catholic Heritage
Encino sits in territory that was originally part of Guadalupe County, created by the New Mexico Territorial Legislature on February 26, 1891 and named for Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patroness of Mexico. After county-line changes, Encino now lies in Torrance County, but the area's older Catholic mission records — including those of St. Mary's in Vaughn, Santa Rosa de Lima in Santa Rosa, San Jose in Anton Chico, and Our Lady of Refuge in Puerto de Luna — remain important genealogical resources and are largely preserved on microfilm at LDS Family History Centers. Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission continues that long Catholic tradition in the high plains villages east of the Manzano Mountains.