Almost 30 years later, I was assigned to a parish in El Paso, Texas, called Our Lady of Mount Carmel. But before the parish was re-named Mt. Carmel, it had been La Misión de Corpus Christi de San Antonio del Ysleta del Sur.
Today, the complex of buildings carries both names, with parishioners claiming the patronage of one or the other or both. Now an urban parish, Ysleta del Sur still carries an older Pueblo mission identity and membership. About a third of the parish membership are Indigenous People who preserve and celebrate the two Ways of Native Faith and Christian Faith.