Darcy Osby
Darcy is a 2008 Catholics on Call alumna and a graduate from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago with a Master of Divinity. She is currently working as the Director of Religious Education at St. Bernard Parish in Pittsburgh, PA.
I came across a cute poem this Christmas depicting a 5 year-old girl’s telling of the Christmas story, complete with Mary and Joseph having nothing to eat but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches because they were so poor. The poem ends with these words:
This reflection was supposed to be about how I became a nun. As I left the Catholics on Call conference in August of 2008, somewhere in the back of my mind I was already writing a future article about how CoC helped me discern my call to religious life. I even thought it might make a good novel some day! As I have now been married for 11 weeks something must have changed…
Scripture Readings: Exodus 17:3-7 Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 Romans 5:1-2, 5-8 John 4:5-42 or 4:5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42
“Whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst.” (Jn 4:14)
Pope Francis has proclaimed a Year of Consecrated Life on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, which speaks of religious in its sixth chapter, and of the Decree Perfectae Caritatis on the renewal of religious life. The Year has begun on November 30, 2014, the First Sunday of Advent, and will conclude with the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple on February 2, 2016.
- September 11, 2015: Beyond Our Dreams
- September 4, 2015: Have No Fear!
- August 26, 2015: Law and Life
- August 21, 2015: Catholics on Call - A Place to Live The Questions
- August 21, 2015: Dancing to the Sacred Rhythm of Daily Life
- August 21, 2015: Words of Everlasting Life
- August 13, 2015: Food For Life
- August 6, 2015: Being Bread for Life: A Sacrifice Pleasing to the Lord
