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2026 began with our PIME U.S. Mission Center celebrating sending $1.3 million of crucial support to the missions in 2025, and another Mission Center + Missions trip to see your impact in Thailand and Cambodia. Fr. Daniele Criscione, PIME, and Michelle Regner traveled to isolated PIME Missions to get a look at the effect that your help has had on the “little” there: Burmese kids learning Thai after fleeing violence in Myanmar; a thriving Catholic community in Cambodia that survived the Khmer Rouge; and a boarding school full of PIME Sponsored kids in Thailand. (Tickets feature photos from this trip.) An annual tradition, the PIME Little Christmas Sweepstakes helps us to share the joy and hope that Christ brings us in Advent with those who are forced to live “little” lives where they are vulnerable or disadvantaged around the world! The suggested ticket donation for the sweepstakes is $2 per ticket, but no matter how much you give, the impact that you make will be significant. Any amount donated will help those marginalized to no longer feel “little! We will hold the PIME Little Christmas Sweepstakes Grand Prize drawing at the PIME U.S. Mission Center on December 18, 2026. As a friend of PIME, and in return for your generosity throughout the year, you will have the chance to win cash prizes ranging from $100 to $1,000! If you would like more tickets, call us at (313) 342-4066 or email info@pimeusa.org.

Your intentions will be prayed for during the May 14-22, 2026, Novena and after. Join Fr. Anand Talluri, PIME Missionary in Tunisia, to pray the Novena to Our Lady of Confidence daily on our PIME Missionaries YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram accounts. The Madonna della Fiducia (Our Lady of Confidence) is a beautiful portrait of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus in her arms. Carlo Maratta (1625-1713), painted the image and donated it to Sr. Clare Isabella, the Abbess of the Poor Clares of Todi, Italy. Sr. Clare Isabella developed a sincere devotion to the Blessed Mother through this beautiful painting. She received a promise of consolation from the Blessed Virgin Mary for all who venerate her through the image. Mary's intercession is invoked through a short prayer: “Mater Mea, Fiducia Mea!” (My Mother, My Confidence!) The portrait of Our Lady of Confidence was eventually gifted to a seminary in Rome. More than 100 seminarians and alumni prayed to her before leaving for the front lines, invoking Mary's intercession praying, "My Mother, My Confidence!" Each of those soldiers returned home safely from the horrors of WWI, among their ranks was the future Saint Pope John XXIII. A vital advocate of the Missions of the Catholic Church, the Pope held a fervent love in his heart for PIME. He eventually donated his family home in Sotto il Monte to serve as a seminary for the Institute. Below is the promise of Our Lady of Confidence, taken from the consoling words of the Blessed Mother when she appeared to Sr. Clare Isabella: “The divine Lady deigned to reveal to me that every soul that confidently presents hisself/herself before this picture will obtain from her Divine Son the general pardon for all his/her sins. Moreover, my divine Lady assured me with the love of a true mother that she would grant a special tenderness to everyone who contemplated this picture.” Prayer to Our Lady of Confidence: O Mary Immaculate, the precious name of Mother of Confidence, with which we honor you, fills our hearts to overflowing with the sweetest consolation and moves us to hope for every blessing from you. If such a title has been given to you, it is a sure sign that no one has recourse to you in vain. Accept, therefore, with a mother’s love, our devout homage as we earnestly beseech you to be gracious to us in our every need. We pray that you will make us live in constant union with you and your divine Son, Jesus. With you as our guide, we are certain that we shall walk in the right way and that it will be our happy lot to hear the Lord say on the last day of our life those words of comfort: “Come, my good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of the Lord.” Amen.  

Dear PIME Friends, Another Advent Season is here, and another great opportunity is given to us. We can pause for a moment, find time to disconnect from the world, and reconnect with the Lord. Because the Lord is coming and wants to reconnect with us! This liturgical season is designed to pause and reconnect. Advent comes from the Latin: adventus, meaning “coming” or “arrival”. Our Catholic liturgy offers us a combination of readings, prayers, and signs to signify the coming of the Lord. Yes, the Lord is coming! My mind goes to our missions, and the more I think of them, the more I realize that this Advent will be extremely difficult for so many. I think of our missionaries in Myanmar, where, after over four years of war, they still don’t see any glimmer of peace. Violence everywhere, churches burned down, displaced children, women, and the elderly hiding in the forest. And still the Lord is coming! I was talking with one of my PIME brothers who works in Myanmar, and he told me how grateful he is for the support we send him from our PIME US Mission Center. This Christmas, he will be able to bring some joy into the lives of children and struggling families. Yes, the Lord is coming! Every time we do something for someone, and especially for those we don’t even know, the Lord is coming!    With this Advent Appeal, I want to encourage you to be a sign of the coming of the Lord! The generosity we have seen for this appeal is growing year after year, and I want to share with you how much I appreciate your support. This appeal will help us reach our 2025 goal. I hope that together we will be able to send over $ 1.3 million to the missions this year. I prayerfully ask you to consider donating a $50 gift to make this dream come true. The Lord is coming; with your support, we will make a difference in so many lives.   In this Advent Season, the Lord is giving us the chance to stop and pause. To recognize His presence in those who are hungry, thirsty, naked, ill, a stranger, etc. Our brothers and sisters are a sign of His coming. If we see His coming, one day He will tell us: ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’ (MT 25:37-40) I want to wish you a very blessed Advent Season and a very Merry Christmas. The Lord is coming even because of you! Thank you so much for being a sign of the coming of the Lord in so many lives. God bless you! Fr. Daniele

Dear PIME Friends,  We have entered the Lenten Season, and I am in Cambodia, Southeast Asia, visiting our missions. It is such a privilege to be here in Kdol Leu, where the pastor is Fr. Alessandro Motti, PIME. He is a good friend of mine; we worked together in Milan, and to see him here, speaking Khmer, and leading the community brings me so much joy. He loves his mission, he loves his people, and they love him. Walking a few yards from the church, there is a chapel, a very special chapel, where Fr. Pierre Rapin is buried. He is the only martyr in Cambodia that we have the remains of. On Tuesday, February 24th, we will celebrate the 55th anniversary of his martyrdom. After spending 16 years in Cambodia, three of those in Kdol Leu, he loved his Christians so much that when he was given the opportunity to leave, he decided to stay, despite the imminent threat from the Khmer Rouge. After 56 years, the parishioners still remember him as the good shepherd who, like Jesus, gave his life for his sheep.  After Fr. Rapin was killed, the Ksach Proceh/Kdol Leu mission was without a pastor for more than 20 years. The majority of Christians were Vietnamese, and they went back to Vietnam. The minority, the Khmer Christians, remained secretly Catholic, praying in their homes or in the silence of the rice fields. In 1992, Bishop Lesouef returned to Cambodia and immediately sought out old catechists to locate the Christians of Kdol Leu. After that, several priests, religious, and lay faithful have been working to rebuild a community that seemed to have been destroyed. Today, I look at the new rectory and the kindergarten that the PIME U.S. Mission Center helped to rebuild, and I feel like we are a part of this story. I look at the children and their smiles, and I am so happy, because they are safe. They can grow in their faith. I look around, and I see Fr. Alessandro, and I see a good shepherd. I am so proud of him. I look around, and I am grateful for you, because you make PIME! This Lenten Appeal is going to be a very important one because in 2025, we were able to surpass our goal, and we sent over $1.3 Million dollars to the missions. We are growing, and the good work that many good shepherds are doing needs your support. Our next goal is going to be sending $1.4 Million in 2026, and if you consider donating $50 to our 2026 PIME Lenten Appeal, I am positive that next year we will celebrate another tremendous accomplishment! I am here, at Fr. Rapin’s tomb, and I am praying for each of you. On behalf of all our PIME Missionaries and the people we serve, I want to wish you a very blessed Lenten Season full of Christ’s love. Yours, In Christ, Fr. Daniele Criscione PIME U.S. Mission Center Director