Mass intentions

Letting people request Mass intentions online

You can let parishioners request a Mass intention from a public page. Requests come to the office for approval — they never book themselves.

1. Go to Settings → Parish and find the Online Mass-intention requests card.
2. Tick Accept Mass-intention requests from the website.
3. Set the Booking window (days ahead) — how far out people may request (365 by default). This is a hard cap, and it follows the canon that intentions should be satisfied within a year.
4. Click Save request settings, then use Copy link to share your parish's request page.

The page carries your parish's own logo and brand colors — the same look as your other public forms.
A calendar of upcoming Masses, each marked open, pending, or taken. The calendar shows the Masses your parish will actually celebrate — a published schedule where you have one, your standard times everywhere else.
An open slot opens a short form: their name, email, optional phone, the intention, and whether it is for someone living or deceased.
A note explains that an offering may be made at the parish office, with the customary amount set by the bishops of the province — but the intention is scheduled either way.
On submit they see a thank-you explaining the office will review and follow up.

The public calendar and the check Vianney runs when a request is submitted read the Mass list from the same place, so a time that is not one of your Masses is refused rather than quietly accepted. The one exception is a parish marked as having no regular Sunday Mass: every Sunday request is turned away there, even at a Mass a published schedule lists — see A church without a regular Sunday Mass.
A church marked as having no regular Sunday Mass has its Sunday times withheld here — see A church without a regular Sunday Mass.

A parishioner signed in to the portal is recognized automatically; others request as guests until the office links them.
Requests land in a queue for you to handle — see Approving intention requests.