I am a member of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME - Pontificium Institutum pro Missionibus Exteris). PIME was born in 1926, when Pope Pius XI united the "Lombard Seminary for the Foreign Missions" (founded in Milan in 1850 by Msgr. Angelo Ramazzotti and other Lombard bishops) with the "Pontifical Seminary of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul for the Foreign Missions" (founded in Rome in 1871 by Msgr. Pietro Avanzini).

PIME is a society of secular priests and lay people who dedicate their lives to missionary activities in non-Christian countries. Our motto is: AD GENTES, AD EXTRA, AD VITAM ("towards people, away from home, for life").

PIME missionaries work in: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroun, Ivory Coast, Philippines, Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Hong-Kong, India, Italy, Mexico, Myanmar, Papua-New Guinea, Thailand, United States.

The Mexican mission, to which I have been assigned, depends from the U.S. Region. PIME opened its U.S. Regional headquarters in Detroit in 1947 at the invitation of then Detroit Archbishop Edward Cardinal Mooney. Since then, other PIME Houses have been opened, mostly on the eastern part of the United States.

In this page you will find the description of our mission in Mexico, where I have been sent. Meanwhile you can have some information by clicking on the links below or visiting the "links" page.