Mass intention software for Catholic parishes

How it works

• • A public request form lives at your parish's own URL — link it from your website or print it in the bulletin
• • Requests arrive in a staff queue with the requester, the intention, the offering, and the date requested
• • Staff schedule, reschedule, or decline a request and the record keeps its history
• • Because the requester is matched to a parishioner record, an intention is one more thing you know about that family

Why a form beats a phone call

The office gets the details in writing the first time: the correct spelling of the name, whether it is for the living or the deceased, and the date the family is hoping for. Nothing is transcribed twice, and nothing is lost because the person who took the call was covering the desk that morning.

The parishioner-facing request page carries a noindex directive, so the names on it never appear in search results.

Part of the whole parish record

Mass intentions are one feature of Bellringer, which also handles parishioner and household records, email and SMS, ministries, sacrament history, giving, events, and the weekly bulletin.

The offering and the record

Each request carries the offering alongside the intention, so the queue is also the record of what was received and for what. When the requester matches an existing parishioner, the intention attaches to that record — which means the family's history is visible the next time they call, rather than living in the memory of whoever took the first request.

Requests keep their history as they are scheduled, moved, or declined, so a question about what was promised has an answer that does not depend on anyone's recollection.