Your Today dashboard

Today is where Vianney opens. It shows your parish's day at a glance — read-only, no sending from here. Everything here is read-from-live data, in your parish's time zone.

What you will see

• The day itself, across the top — the celebration with its rank and vestment color, the date, the season and week, the Lectionary cycles, and links to the full readings. Directly beneath sit the calendar-day note (on a day that anticipates another) and the day's optional memorial on one line. Then Today's Masses, one line each: the time, the Mass's label with a Vigil badge where it applies, whom the Mass is offered for, and who is celebrating. Click the header to open that day in Liturgy → Look Ahead.
• The Pastor's Brief — your day in plain sentences: your day off, an ordination anniversary, tonight's commitments. Dismiss tucks it away until tomorrow; a quiet Show brief chip brings it back.
• Readings at a Glance — the AI summary of the day's Mass readings. Clicking it opens that day in Look Ahead. See Readings at a glance.
• The Year — in the right-hand column, a twelve-month calendar wheel. Its rim is painted one band per day in the season's own color: green for Ordinary Time, violet for Advent and Lent, gold for Christmastide and Eastertide. Today is marked, and today's celebration is named in the middle.
• My Tasks — under the wheel: your open tasks, most urgent first and oldest first within each rung, each wearing its priority. The card stays exactly one task tall; a ⌄ N more below ⌄ line says how many are waiting and scrolls them into view. View all → opens the Tasks page.
• This week's liturgies — a full-width strip of seven day cards, the same cards Look Ahead draws. Click any day to open it in Look Ahead.
• Formation — tonight's session and the program summary, read-only, when your parish runs Faith Formation.
• The tile wall — it now leads with what is waiting on you, in red: Mass intention requests, Baptism cert requests, Prayer requests, Connect replies, Account requests, Interment requests, and one red tile per parish form with submissions to review, named after the form itself. After those come the familiar counts — birthdays and anniversaries today, what is coming this week, Masses, funerals and baptisms in progress, the sick list, care cases, death anniversaries, recent emergency calls, weddings in progress — plus giving, follow-ups, and Safe Environment compliance where those modules are on and your role reaches them. A tile at zero does not render at all, so everything on the wall is something real. A completely quiet parish sees one line: Nothing needs attention right now. Click any tile to land where that number is managed.
• Emergency anointing cards — if one is logged, it pins to the top and cannot be hidden.

Two things that used to be here are not any more. Confessions and the Friday/Saturday/Sunday schedule lines left Home for the Liturgy page. Recent Activity was retired; the same sent-greetings feed lives on Messages as Recently sent.

Using The Year wheel

• Hover any day — a band on the rim or a date in the grid — and the middle of the wheel shows that day: its date, its rank with a vestment dot, what is celebrated, and any optional memorials on offer. Move away and today comes back.
• Rings. A solemnity wears an open gold ring; a holy day of obligation wears a filled one. The obligation is worked out from your own parish's list of obligatory days, so a solemnity that carries no obligation this year — the Assumption falling on a Saturday, for instance — is correctly left unringed, and December 8 falling on a Sunday moves to the 9th with its obligation.
• Expand. Click the wheel, or the ⤢ button, and it grows to fill the working area beside the menu. Esc or ⤡ puts it back. In the expanded wheel, clicking a day takes you straight to that day in Liturgy → Look Ahead.
• Liturgical or Gregorian. Switch to Gregorian for a plain natural year with no seasonal colors; Vianney remembers your choice on that computer. The hover peek is deliberately switched off in Gregorian view — the peek is liturgical identity, and the plain calendar promises none.
• The wheel, the day header and every Liturgy page read the parish's one liturgical calendar, so no two screens can tell you a different season.

Saturday evening

Once Saturday's own Masses are done — about an hour after the last morning or daytime Mass begins, or from noon when there is none — the day card leads with the Sunday it anticipates and names the Mass doing the anticipating — *Anticipated at this evening's Anticipatory Mass · 17:00*, using your own label and time from the Mass schedule. The calendar day's own saint or memorial stays in a line beneath it, so you can still see both at once. Your vigil Mass's own hour is the latest this happens — by then the flip is a certainty — and a parish with no Saturday evening Mass never flips at all: Saturday simply holds the day. The times come from your weekly Mass schedule.

Make the layout your own

• 1. Click ⚙ Edit layout at the foot of the page.
• 2. Drag a block by its header to move it, or a side handle to change its width. Heights look after themselves — a block is always as tall as what it holds.
• 3. The Show / hide blocks chips beside the buttons hide a block you do not want. Done keeps the arrangement, Cancel abandons it, Reset restores the default.
• 4. My Tasks lives in the right-hand rail beside the wheel and cannot be moved. It can be hidden and shown like anything else; its place is fixed.
• 5. Your arrangement saves automatically and is yours — it does not change anyone else's Today.

Tips

• Today is a read-only summary. To actually send a greeting, click Open in Messages → or switch to the Messages tab.
• If a count looks off, click the tile — it always deep-links to the live list behind the number.
• The ✨ Draft button you'll see in Messages is part of Vianney's AI features and can be switched off per parish in Settings → AI add-on (Personal message drafts); Today's tiles and counts are unaffected either way.