Setting your weekly Mass schedule

Your weekly Mass schedule is your parish's standard pattern — the times Vianney assumes when nothing more specific has been said. Intentions, celebrants, Home, Look Ahead and the public Mass-time pages all read from it. Where a published ministry schedule covers a stretch of dates, that schedule's Masses are what everything shows instead: the office built that weekend deliberately, so it wins. Settings fills in every date a published schedule does not claim.

Edit the schedule

• 1. Go to Settings → Parish, and find the Mass & confession times card.
• 2. Under Weekly Mass schedule, each row is one Mass: a day, a time (e.g. 4:30 PM), and a label (Vigil Mass, Sunday Mass, Daily Mass, or something of your own like "Sunday 9:00 (Family Mass)").
• 3. Add rows with Add a Mass, remove the ones you no longer need, and save them together with Save Mass schedule.
• 4. These rows are the parish's times as a whole. If your parish has several churches there is no per-Mass church picker here yet — set your churches up under Settings → Worship Sites, where you can also say that one of them has no regular Sunday Mass (see Managing worship sites).

Good to know

• A published ministry schedule overrides these standard times for the dates it covers. The Settings page says so plainly beside the Mass-times card.
• A Saturday evening Mass is the anticipated Sunday — it takes Sunday's readings and propers, not Saturday's. Vianney flips Saturday to Sunday's liturgy once Saturday's own Masses are done: about an hour after the last daytime Mass begins, or from noon when Saturday has no morning Mass — and never later than your vigil Mass's own hour. So with an 8:30 AM Saturday Mass and a 5:00 PM vigil, Sunday's liturgy leads from about 9:30 AM — by then the Mass the office is preparing *is* Sunday's. Before that, Saturday holds the day, which is right — a Saturday *morning* Mass really is the weekday.
• Two things follow from that, and both are worth knowing. Putting the word Vigil or Anticipatory in a Saturday Mass's label makes Vianney read it as the vigil whatever hour it is at — so label an 8:00 AM Saturday Mass "Vigil" and the whole day flips at 8:00 AM. And if no Saturday Mass is at or after 3:00 PM and none is labelled that way, there is no vigil to anticipate from, so Saturday simply holds the day all evening.
• Changing times does not disturb intentions already booked — those keep their stored date and time.
• These times are also the template a new ministry schedule starts from, so getting them right saves work later.

Where to see the result

The left-hand nav calls this area Liturgy & Intentions, and the old Liturgy Calendar tab has been retired. To see the days these times actually produce — every Mass, its celebrant, its intention and its ministers — open Look Ahead, the page Liturgy now opens on. See Look Ahead: the Liturgy landing page.

Tips

• Keep the schedule accurate; almost everything liturgical flows from it.
• For holy days and one-off Masses, add a row for the occasion and remove it afterward.
• Next: Assigning Mass celebrants.