OSV Demonstration Week: OSV Overview

This is a great opportunity to learn more about topics such as; Religion Curriculum, School Annual Funds, Marketing Services, OSV Resources, Faith Guidebooks for Young Adolescents and more! We value your input! We will save time at the end of each presentation for you to ask questions and submit ideas during the Q & A. […]

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Diocesan Appeals Webinar Series

Charitable Gift Annuities Made Easy To register, contact Rena Claus at rclaus@osv.com Attend this webinar series to hear best practices for administering an appeal and ways to increase appeal participation from well-known and respected speakers from across the country and our OSV staff.

OSV Demonstration Week: Grade School Curriculum for Parish, Allelu!, Alive in Christ

This is a great opportunity to learn more about topics such as; Religion Curriculum, School Annual Funds, Marketing Services, OSV Resources, Faith Guidebooks for Young Adolescents and more! We value your input! We will save time at the end of each presentation for you to ask questions and submit ideas during the Q & A. […]

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Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols

In this book, author Mike Aquilina conducts an intriguing and insightful tour of the symbols that expressed the life and devotion of the Church through the first four centuries of its existence. He explains how Christians freely borrowed pagan and Jewish symbols, giving them new, distinctly Christian meanings. Signs and Mysteries will help you recover the […]

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OSV Demonstration Week: Sacrament Preparation, Encounter with Christ, Encuentro con Cristo

This is a great opportunity to learn more about topics such as; Religion Curriculum, School Annual Funds, Marketing Services, OSV Resources, Faith Guidebooks for Young Adolescents and more! We value your input! We will save time at the end of each presentation for you to ask questions and submit ideas during the Q & A. […]

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OSV Demonstration Week: Bi-lingual Curriculum, Vivos en Cristo, Allelu!

This is a great opportunity to learn more about topics such as; Religion Curriculum, School Annual Funds, Marketing Services, OSV Resources, Faith Guidebooks for Young Adolescents and more! We value your input! We will save time at the end of each presentation for you to ask questions and submit ideas during the Q & A. […]

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OSV Demonstration Week: School Annual Funds

This is a great opportunity to learn more about topics such as; Religion Curriculum, School Annual Funds, Marketing Services, OSV Resources, Faith Guidebooks for Young Adolescents and more! We value your input! We will save time at the end of each presentation for you to ask questions and submit ideas during the Q & A. […]

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Moving from Maintenance to Mission

Many parishes and schools are trapped in a maintenance cycle, spending most of their time and resources struggling to simply maintain what they have. Learn how to break free of the maintenance model and focus more of your time, energy, and resources on advancing the mission of your Church community.

Discovering Christ the Servant: A Spirituality of Service

Service is not something we do but someone we give: our very selves. It is an act of love rooted in a divine love already poured out for us. This book provides a radical but thoroughly consistent rethinking of the Christian life that takes up the tradition and builds upon it in a way that […]

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Diocesan Appeals Webinar Series

“Pushing the Envelope” - New Trends in Diocesan Appeals To register, contact Rena Claus at rclaus@osv.com Attend this webinar series to hear best practices for administering an appeal and ways to increase appeal participation from well-known and respected speakers from across the country and our OSV staff.

This Is the Day! Re-Awaken Your Parish

Along with a once in a generation pandemic, 2020 ushered in new or exacerbated challenges for our Church. But we are Easter people who abound in Hope, and our parishes need to be places of Eucharistic celebration, bringing joy and faith to all. So, dormancy or decline cannot be in our lexicon or practice. Every […]

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Know Thyself: Get Organized For Back To School!

With summer coming to an end, back-to-school organizing and tidying up may be at the top of your mind. So starts the endless quest for the perfect containers, boxes, totes, bags, bins, shelves, files, folders, and labels to tame our closets, corral our clutter, and eliminate chaos. Books and television shows promise the magical secrets […]

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Diocesan Appeals Webinar Series

Taking Parish Offertory By The Horns To register, contact Rena Claus at rclaus@osv.com Attend this webinar series to hear best practices for administering an appeal and ways to increase appeal participation from well-known and respected speakers from across the country and our OSV staff.

Simple Mercies: How the Works of Mercy Brings Peace and Fulfillment

With her accessible, everyday approach to life, writer, mom, and volunteer Lara C. Patangan helps us realize that our everyday compassion makes a difference in exponential ways and that mercy always matters. Practicing mercy isn’t a passive way of renewal; rather, engaging in transformative acts of service empowers us to fulfill our purpose to love […]

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Oriens

Make a life-changing pilgrimage, beginning this Advent. Oriens is a Latin word meaning “rising” and “dawn.” Your Oriens journey begins on the First Sunday of Advent and continues until the feast of the Presentation on February 2. Every day, you’ll take a step closer to “the dawn from on high.” Fr. Joel Sember is your leader on this […]

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150 People, Places, and Things You Never Knew Were Catholic

Good luck getting through an entire day without experiencing the impact of Catholicism. Woken up by an alarm or checked the time? The mechanical clock was invented in the tenth century by a monk who became pope. A bowl of cereal for breakfast? Your milk is safe thanks to Louis Pasteur, a devout Catholic whose […]

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Diocesan Appeals Webinar Series

Why having a Parish Census is Crucial for Diocesan Development? To register, contact Rena Claus at rclaus@osv.com Attend this webinar series to hear best practices for administering an appeal and ways to increase appeal participation from well-known and respected speakers from across the country and our OSV staff.

This is the Day to Increase Your Offertory! Because Doing Okay is Not Okay Anymore

We continue to hear how difficult it is for parishes across the country to strengthen parish community, especially when budgets are tight, and parishioners are concerned about economic stresses and the possibility of a pandemic resurgence. We have found, though, that our Catholic community is generous, and we have parishes throughout the country that have […]

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