Booking a Mass intention

The intention book records who each Mass is offered for. Vianney keeps one intention per Mass, the way the law intends, and warns you before a clash.

Finding your way around Intentions

Open Liturgy → Intentions. A row of chips sits across the top — Book, Requests, Add intention and Stipends — and each one opens its own screen underneath.

• Book is the intention book itself, laid out as a table. Its search box and its filter sit on their own row just below the chips.
• Requests holds the online requests still waiting for the office. The number waiting shows on the chip, so you can see at a glance whether anyone needs an answer.
• Add intention is the booking form below.
• Stipends is the month-by-month offering record, paid and unpaid, in the same table style as the book.

Book an intention

• 1. Open Liturgy → Intentions and click Add intention.
• 2. Pick the Mass date, then the Time from the dropdown. In the office the times offered are your standard Mass schedule for that day of the week, so the book stays open to you whether or not a ministry schedule has been built for those dates. If your parish keeps no standard Mass that day, Vianney says No scheduled Mass that day — times shown from the weekly schedule and offers the whole week's times instead. The public request page is the stricter one: it offers only the Masses your parish will actually celebrate.
• 3. Enter the Intention (whom the Mass is for) and the Requested by details — first name, last name, email, phone.
• 4. Add the stipend if there is one, and tick † Deceased when it applies.
• 5. Click Book it.

Pro populo and clashes

• Tick Pro populo for the Mass the pastor offers for the people — no stipend is taken, and the intention writes its own wording.
• If the slot is already taken, Vianney stops you and offers the next open date rather than double-booking.
• In a multi-site parish, each church keeps its own intention book — two different sites can each hold an intention at the same day and time; a clash is only ever flagged within the same site.

Tips

• An intention booked on a Mass from a published schedule follows that Mass. If the office later moves the Mass to a different time, any intention not yet offered moves with it, and the receipt says how many moved. Delete a Mass and its intentions are set loose rather than deleted — they turn up under Needs attention so someone decides where they belong.
• To let parishioners request intentions themselves, see Online Mass intention requests.