Praying for each
other by name

Somebody writes down what they are carrying. Their parish sees it and prays. The person who asked is told that somebody did.

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: the whole parish, or a small circle of people who already know.

Not everything belongs in front of a whole parish. A circle is a small group you make yourself — your family, a ministry, the four people who know what is happening at home — and you invite them with a code.

When somebody in a circle asks for prayer, the others are told. Every parish has one too, open to anyone who belongs there, so a parish can pray together without anyone needing an invitation.

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.

In the app, or by telephone for anyone who would rather not have an app — at any hour, from the parish’s own bulletin. Follow more than one parish and ask them together.

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.

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.

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.