The pastorate Mass-rotation grid: assigning celebrants across parishes
When one pastor and a few priests cover several churches, the weekly puzzle is who says which Mass where — without double-booking a priest or overlooking canon law. The Rotation grid solves this in one screen at the pastorate home.
Where to find it
Sign in at the pastorate home and open Liturgy → Rotation. The tab appears only in pastorate (or cluster) mode. Rows are your parishes; columns are the days of the week; each cell lists that church's Masses with the celebrant.
Reading the grid
- A cell shows each Mass time, its label, and who is celebrating.
- Where no one is assigned, the cell reads the parish's Pastor (default) — so with no changes, the pastor covers every Mass and nothing needs entering.
- A limited badge on a parish means it has no regular Sunday Mass (see A church without a regular Sunday Mass).
Assigning a celebrant
Only the pastor can assign. Choose a priest from the drop-down in any cell; pick Default (Pastor) to clear it back to the parish pastor. Priests shared across the pastorate are marked *shared*. The change saves immediately to that parish's own records — Vianney never edits one parish's book from another.
The warnings (a caution, never a block)
The grid checks two things across the whole pastorate and marks a warning where it sees a concern. It never stops you — the pastor decides.
- Travel overlap — the same priest is booked at two different churches close enough in time that, with the travel buffer, he cannot make both. The travel buffer (default 30 minutes) is set per pastorate.
- Canon 905 — a priest is booked for more than one Mass that day. Canon 905 allows a second Mass (bination) only by the Ordinary's faculty for a just cause, and a third (trination) only on Sundays and holy days for pastoral necessity. When you proceed, Vianney invites you to record the reason, which is kept for the chancery.
The sacristy sheet
Print sheet opens a clean, printable week — parishes down the side, days across the top, each Mass and its celebrant — for the sacristy or the bulletin.
Reading one parish's own days
The grid is the only cross-parish liturgy view. The old Today, This week and This weekend tabs are gone, and the pastorate-wide versions of those listings went with them. To read a single parish's days in full — Masses, celebrants, ministers, intentions, notes and readings — sign in to that parish and open Look Ahead: see Look Ahead: the Liturgy landing page.
Good to know
- Identity is never guessed: a priest without a linked account is matched only by exact name, shown with a small dot, and never merged with someone else.
- If a parish is briefly unreachable it is simply left out of the grid, never shown with wrong data.