Our Mission: Guided by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and dedicated to promoting the vision of Saint Francis of Assisi, the Viva Francis Foundation is devoted to the growth and development of the Franciscan mission in our world today, especially by assisting the Conventual Franciscan friars who live and minister in the western United States.

For more than eight centuries, Conventual Franciscans have offered a powerful and profound voice to the Church, society, and the cultural marketplace of ideas. As members of a worldwide fraternity of Roman Catholic men who follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the spirit of their founder, Saint Francis of Assisi, Conventual Franciscans minister in many diverse ways while continuing their traditions of devotion to God, Our Lady and the Saints, and dedication to a life of liturgical and contemplative prayer. 

The Viva Francis Foundation was established in 2003 as a nonprofit religious corporation to support the Conventual Franciscans in the Province of St. Joseph of Cupertino, which encompasses the Pacific region. Since 1981, friars of the Province have served in the Dioceses of Monterey, Oakland and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and as of 1999 in Vietnam. In 2004 the Order established Franciscan formation programs in Vietnam and it is our particular privilege and joy to assist in funding the steady expansion of the Order in Vietnam. Viva Francis raises funds for the education of seminarians, support of retired priests and brothers, and to support capital improvements to the buildings and real property where the Provincial headquarters are located.

Please join us by offering your financial support and, most importantly, prayers for the ongoing ministry of our Province. If you would like more information that you do not find elsewhere on this website, please contact us at: info@vivafrancis.org

We encourage you to explore the work of the Conventual Franciscans in our Province by visiting franciscanfriars.org.

“Start by doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis of Assisi

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