Effective today, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has altered the public health directives for the state. According to new directives issued today, parishes are allowed to ‘operate’ at a 25% capacity. It is important to note that Catholics are still dispensed from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass.
 
Directives

• Parishes are to resume offering daily Mass in the church.  
• Parishes are to resume offering weekly scheduled confessions. Due to the ongoing COVID situation, the sacrament should be offered in a way that allows for distancing. Confessionals should still not be used due to their confined space.
• Pastors who have been celebrating Sunday Mass outdoors should consider whether a greater number of the faithful can be ministered to at this time by continuing to celebrate outdoors or to begin holding Sunday Mass indoors at 25% capacity. 
• Pastors who, due to the circumstances of their parish, have not been able to celebrate Sunday Mass outdoors should begin celebrating Sunday Mass indoors at 25% capacity. 
• Baptisms, weddings, and funerals should now be celebrated in the church building.
• Any pastor aware of circumstances that would present difficulties in celebrating Mass indoors in their parish should contact the bishop directly.