Sunday, and every day
Praying for each
other by name
Your parish would pray for you by name if it knew. Most people never ask, not because they do not want it, but because asking means saying it out loud to someone.
And when you need to know what time confessions are heard, you can ask the parish itself — in the app, or out loud, from any telephone.
Ask it out loud
You
“What time are confessions on Saturday?”
It answers
“Confessions on Saturday are held in the Chapel from 9:15 to 10:15 in the morning.”
From the parish’s own bulletin
You
“And if I can’t make that?”
It answers
“You can call the parish office at (972) 712-2645 to arrange another time.”
It gives the office rather than guessing
The answers are the line’s own voice, from a parish’s own bulletin. The questions are read aloud for this demonstration. Every parish that signs up gets its own number.
The whole of it
Someone asks. The parish prays.
Somebody writes down what they are carrying. Their parish sees it and prays. The person who asked is told that somebody did.
For Maria’s mother, who has surgery on Thursday — we pray to the Lord.
Lord, hear our prayer.
There are no comments, no likes, and nothing to scroll. One action — I prayed for this — and the choice, every time, of who sees it.
In front of the whole parish, or only a small circle you make yourself: your family, a ministry, the four people who already know what is happening at home. You can post without your name, and you can delete it whenever you want.
Answers
Ask the parish anything
Mass times that changed for the summer. When confessions are heard. What a couple needs to do about a baptism. Today that means hunting a website, or ringing the office and hoping the right person is at the desk.
- You ask
- “Is the eleven o’clock the one with the choir?”
- It answers
- “The bulletin doesn’t say which Mass has music. The office can tell you.”
That second answer matters more than the first. It refuses rather than guesses, because a confident guess sends somebody to a locked church.
Travelling, moving, or back after a long time away: ask what is near you and you get real churches — nearest first, with the distance, a number to ring, and directions that open in your maps app. Not a list a model invented, which in a town you do not know costs you a Sunday morning. Any church can be added by anyone who wants to pray with it, whether or not the parish has set anything up.
Every day
The readings, and what they say
The day’s readings with a plain summary of each — what happens in it, who is speaking, who is being addressed. Then one short reflection, and the saint whose day it is.
Scripture translations are under copyright, so the app carries the citations and a link. The summaries are our own words, which is why they can be there at all.
Limits
What it will not do
- Direction
- None. Anything personal or pastoral is referred to a priest.
- Internal
- A parish’s internal documents are never read to anyone.
- In crisis
- It stops, and points to a crisis line rather than trying to help.
- Cost
- Parishioners are never charged for anything.
For clergy
If you are a pastor or a parish administrator, there is a page for you.