Mass Schedule — How It Works

Who: Anyone.   Goal: Know when to be at church next.

1. Open the parish home page. The Today card shows "Next · Mass" with the time and your time zone (e.g. 5:00 PM PT), the Mass's language, and how long until it starts ("in 1h 20m").
2. If a Mass began within the last 50 minutes, the card says "Happening now" instead, and how many minutes ago it started.
3. No more Masses today? The card looks ahead through the coming week and shows the next one — "Tomorrow · English", or the day's name.
4. When the parish has confession later today, a Confession Today line lists the times just below.

Result: One look at the home page tells you when the next Mass is — with no calendar math and no guessing about time zones.

Who: Anyone.   Goal: Plan ahead — the Sunday Masses, a weekday Mass, confession.

1. Scroll to Weekly Mass & Confession Schedule on the home page. On a phone it comes right after the welcome, because it is what most people came for.
2. The week is grouped into Sunday, Monday – Friday and Saturday. Today's group opens by itself and is marked Today; tap any other to open it. Your site remembers which ones you left open.
3. Each line shows the time, a language pill (EN, ES or TL) — or a Confession chip — and any label such as "Vigil". A monthly Mass carries its week, like "1st".
4. A closed group still shows a one-line summary: how many Masses, which languages, and whether there is confession.

Result: The whole week at a glance, including which Masses are in Spanish or Tagalog.

Who: Anyone.   Goal: Know when the usual times don't apply.

1. Upcoming special days appear as their own dated groups under the weekly schedule — for example "Dec 25 · Christmas" with that day's Masses.
2. If the parish has cancelled Masses on a day, its group says "No Masses this day", so you don't make the trip.
3. On the day itself, the Today card names the occasion and counts down to that day's Masses, not the usual ones.
4. When the parish office is closed (a public holiday, say), a "Parish office closed" notice appears with the announcements — on the day, and up to ten days ahead.

Result: Holy Days and holidays never catch you by surprise.

Who: Anyone who can't be there in person.   Goal: Find the Masses the parish streams.

1. Masses the parish streams carry a small screen badge on the weekly schedule ("Livestreamed").
2. If the parish has Watch Live turned on, the home page button reads "Live now — watch Mass" while a streamed Mass is on air. The Watch Live guide covers the rest.

Result: You know which Masses you can join from home, and when.

Who: Anyone.   Goal: Do more with a Mass than just find it.

1. Where the parish takes Mass intentions, each upcoming Mass shows who it is offered for, or a Book an intention link.
2. Where the parish offers online giving, a Give online link sits under the schedule — and the Today card can offer Give to this Mass.
3. Every Mass, confession and adoration time also appears on the parish Calendar, which you can add to your phone's calendar (see the Calendar guide).

Result: The schedule is a starting point — from one Mass you can offer an intention, give, or save it to your own calendar.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Put the regular Mass and confession times online.

1. Open Admin → Mass Schedule. The top of the screen is a week grid, one column per day.
2. Under a day, tap + Add. Choose the Type (Mass, Confession, Adoration), the Time — e.g. 8:00 AM — and the Language. Leave Repeats on Every week.
3. Add an optional label such as "Vigil" in English. Spanish and Tagalog are filled in for you.
4. Save. The time appears as a chip in that day's column, and on the home page straight away.

Result: The home page schedule, the Today card, the calendar and the "Masses each week" figure all fill in from what you entered.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Schedule a First Friday Mass, or a time that only runs in Lent.

1. For a monthly time, set Repeats to Monthly, pick the day, then Which week — 1st to 5th, or Last. The chip in the grid shows the week ("1st").
2. For a seasonal time, tap + Only during a season and fill in In season from and …until. Outside those dates the time leaves the public schedule by itself, and it comes back next season if you move the dates.

Result: Nobody has to remember to add the Lenten confessions on Ash Wednesday, or take them down after Easter.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Make sure the Holy Day Masses are right.

1. Nave watches the Church calendar for you. Holy Days of Obligation in the next four months appear under Upcoming Holy Days, each showing the Masses that already fall on that day ("Currently: 8:00 AM, 12:10 PM (Pacific Time)").
2. If the usual times are right, do nothing — your normal schedule already applies.
3. If the day is different, tap Set up special times. That creates a special day named for the feast, which you then open to add its Masses (next use case). The feast name then also shows on your site.

Result: Holy Days get a reminder months ahead, with the current plan right beside it.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Give one date its own Masses.

1. Under Special days, choose the Date, give it a Label (e.g. "Christmas"), and tap Add.
2. Tick Replaces normal schedule if only this day's own Masses should show. Leave it unticked to add Masses on top of the usual ones.
3. Open the day and use Masses on this day to add as many times as you need — each with its type, language and an optional note.
4. To cancel every Mass on a day, tick Replaces normal schedule and add no times: the public schedule then says "No Masses this day."

Result: The next few special days show as their own dated groups on the home page, and the Today card and calendar follow them on the day.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Tell people the office is closed — without touching Mass.

1. Under Special days, Upcoming public holidays lists the US holidays in the next four months. Tap one to mark the office closed.
2. A holiday that falls on a weekend is marked on the weekday it is observed, since the office is closed at weekends anyway.
3. You can also tick Office closed on any special day you add yourself.
4. Marking a holiday never cancels Mass: the day's usual Masses stay on the schedule. If that day already had a special schedule of its own, it keeps it.

Result: A "Parish office closed" notice appears with the home-page announcements, up to ten days ahead, while the Masses stay as they are.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Show which Masses people can watch from home.

1. Open a weekly Mass and put the word livestreamed in its label (in English — other words can sit beside it, e.g. "Vigil · livestreamed").
2. On the public schedule the word becomes a screen badge, and the rest of the label still shows.
3. With Watch Live turned on, the same word tells the home page when to say "Live now": from the Mass's start time for 75 minutes. Only weekly Masses count. The Watch Live guide covers connecting YouTube or Facebook.

Result: Mark a Mass once, and the badge and the live button both follow it.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Keep the schedule accurate when times change.

1. Tap any chip in the week grid to edit it. Change the time, language or label and Save — every page that shows it updates.
2. A one-time Mass is listed by date under One-time Masses; tap it to edit it the same way.
3. Prefer editing a time to deleting and re-adding it. Other things hang off each Mass: its serving assignments, the ministers' standing assignments and its music plans are deleted with it, while Mass intentions booked for it are kept but no longer tied to a Mass.
4. To remove a time, open it and tap Delete this time.

Result: The schedule stays true, and the serving roster and intentions built on it stay whole.