Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word

The Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word (MFVA) is a Public Clerical Association of the Faithful, located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Birmingham, Alabama. We were founded in 1987 by Mother M. Angelica, who also founded the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament.

As members of the same family in their common love for the Franciscan tradition and for Mother Angelica, the friars make their common consecration to our Lord Jesus Christ by the profession of the three evangelical counsels - poverty, chastity, and obedience.