Assigning who says each Mass

Vianney shows who is celebrating each Mass so the week is clear to everyone. By default the Pastor is shown; a Mass can be assigned to another priest where needed.

Assign a celebrant

• 1. Open Ministries → Workbench on the schedule for the period, and find the Celebrant row.
• 2. Each Mass shows the Pastor by default. Choose a different priest from the picker on any Mass that needs one.
• 3. The assignment shows straight away on Liturgy, Look Ahead, the week's celebrant list, and on Home — today's Masses in the liturgical day header name their celebrant too, read-only there as everywhere outside the workbench.

Assigning lives in the workbench now because that is where the whole weekend gets built — ministers, times and priests in one place — rather than a Mass at a time.

A gentle canon-law nudge

If a priest is shown celebrating more than one Mass in a day, Vianney displays a small c. 905 reminder about how many Masses a priest may offer. It is advisory — it informs, it never blocks. When you go ahead anyway, Vianney invites you to type the reason, which is kept for the chancery. Leave it blank and the assignment still stands.

Tips

• The Pastor, or any staff member who has the Ministries Build schedules permission, can assign a celebrant. Everyone else sees the celebrant line as read-only, on Liturgy and in the workbench alike.
• On the Liturgy page the celebrant line is read-only for everybody now, with a tooltip pointing at the workbench — so if you came looking for a picker there, that is why it is missing.
• The old Liturgy tabs Today, This week and This weekend no longer exist. To read the week — Masses, celebrants, ministers and intentions on one day card — open Look Ahead: see Look Ahead: the Liturgy landing page.
• On Home, the old "Mass Celebrants This Week" card has been replaced by the week's liturgies strip. Celebrants are still there, on each day card, and clicking a day takes you into Look Ahead.
• Readings for each day appear nearby; see Readings at a glance.