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Mass made easier
Current Mass and Reconciliation times, special liturgies, readings and parish-controlled changes.
For parishioners
Your parish, wherever you are.
One trusted place for the practical and pastoral life of your parish — Mass, Reconciliation, prayer, sacraments, giving, notices and pastoral contact.
Know what is happeningVerified information published by the parish itself.
Know what comes nextClear steps through sacraments and parish processes.
Reach your parishEspecially when something pastoral has happened.
My Parish · mobile app
A digital front door
Closer to parish life. Not another feed.
PARISH DOOR is designed to be useful when parish life needs a clear next step — before Mass, during sacramental preparation, while travelling, when you want to help, or when you need to contact the parish pastorally.
CARE
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Pastoral care with context
Explain what has happened, who needs care, urgency, location and how the parish can respond.
SACRAMENTS
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Always know the next step
A visible journey from first enquiry through preparation to celebration — not a form that disappears into an inbox.
PARISH LIFE
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More ways in
Newcomer information, volunteering, ministry, notices, giving and other practical paths into parish life.
Mass + readings · connected suite
Mass + readings
The parish office to the person in the pew.
Follow Mass gives you information relevant to the Mass you are actually attending while the parish remains the authoritative source.
ScheduleSee regular Masses, special liturgies and one-off changes without hunting through old bulletins.
ReadingsAccess the readings attached to your Mass in a focused Mass Companion.
ReconciliationPublished times and parish-defined pathways for appointments where appropriate.
Trusted sourceThe information comes from the parish system rather than a generic listing or stale search result.
Pastoral care · connected handoff
Pastoral care
Tell the parish what has happened — not just that you clicked a button.
A structured request can give the priest or parish team enough context to respond intelligently while keeping the actual care human and personal.
UrgencyUrgent sick or dying requests can be clearly identified.
ContextWho needs care, what happened, current location, preferred response and useful details.
BoundaryReconciliation requests deliberately avoid collecting the content of confession.
HandoffAcknowledgement tells you the parish has picked up the request; it does not turn pastoral care into an approval queue.
Sacramental journeys
From uncertainty to accompaniment.
The strongest benefit is not the online form. It is knowing where your family is in the journey, what has been received, what is still required and the one next step that needs attention.
01 · BAPTISM
Baptism
Family details, godparents, documentation, preparation, celebration and parish review.
02 · EUCHARIST
First Holy Communion
Enrolment, Baptism verification, formation, reconciliation or rehearsal and celebration.
03 · CONFIRMATION
Confirmation
Candidate details, sacrament history, sponsor, formation, retreat, rehearsal and celebration.
04 · MARRIAGE
Marriage
Initial meeting, documents, preparation, liturgy planning and parish or canonical review.
05 · FUNERAL
Funeral
A direct pathway for immediate family contact, planning and pastoral follow-up.
A deliberate boundary
No community wall.
No social feed.
PARISH DOOR helps people participate in the parish; it is not designed to make parish life happen inside the app.
The parish remains the community. The app is a trusted utility around worship, prayer, sacraments, service, giving and pastoral contact.
For parishes & churches
One connected parish platform. From pocket to parish desk.
My Parish gives parishioners a trusted digital front door. Church Portal gives clergy and staff core parish actions on mobile. Parish Desk provides the full desktop operational view. Three surfaces — one parish system.
Serve people betterPut clear information and pastoral pathways within reach.
Reduce administrative frictionMove work out of scattered emails, forms, spreadsheets and staff memory.
Keep parish controlLocal workflows, permissions and verified parish-published information.
PARISH DOOR suite · staff mobile + desktop
Why PARISH DOOR
The parish already does the work. The suite connects it.
A parish may currently use one channel for Mass times, another for bulletins, phone and email for pastoral care, separate forms for sacraments, spreadsheets for progress, and another system again for giving. PARISH DOOR is designed to make those handoffs coherent.
PUBLISH
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One source of truth
Mass, Reconciliation, notices, readings and parish information can be managed in the staff suite and published into My Parish.
PASTORAL
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Better context before response
Pastoral requests arrive with the information a priest or staff member needs to understand the situation before making contact.
WORKFLOW
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Less status-chasing
Sacramental journeys make progress, missing items, ownership and next actions visible to both family and parish.
OPERATIONS
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A shared parish workspace
Church Portal handles core staff actions on mobile; Parish Desk brings Inbox, liturgies, pastoral care, journeys, ministries, notices, documents, settings and finance into the full desktop workspace.
The connected value loop
What happens on one side becomes useful on the other.
The suite is strongest because My Parish, Church Portal and Parish Desk operate on the same parish information and workflows. Staff can act from mobile or desktop without creating a second version of the parish, and parishioners never submit into a black hole.
Church Portal / Parish Desk
Staff updates a Mass
Schedule, celebrant, readings, ministry context and Mass-specific notices can be managed from the appropriate staff surface.
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My Parish
Parishioner sees the relevant Mass
The same verified information is surfaced where the person in the pew needs it.
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Outcome
Fewer stale timetables
The parish remains the authoritative source rather than relying on disconnected listings.
My Parish
A person requests pastoral care
Situation, urgency, person needing care, location and preferred response are captured appropriately.
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Church Portal / Parish Desk
Staff receive a structured handoff
Urgent items can be prioritised, assigned and acknowledged without depersonalising the care.
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Outcome
Better context before the call
The priest can begin with what happened rather than first reconstructing the request.
Parish Desk
Staff progress a sacramental journey
Documents, preparation, dates, next actions and review points stay attached to the same case.
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My Parish
The family sees its next step
What is complete, what is outstanding and what happens next remain visible.
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Outcome
Less routine chasing
Fewer “did you receive it?” and “what happens next?” calls and emails.
Church Portal · staff mobile
Church Portal
Core parish actions when staff are away from the desk.
The staff mobile experience is not a compressed Parish Desk. It concentrates the actions that make sense while clergy and staff are moving through parish life.
Parish contextSee which church or parish context you are acting in before publishing or responding.
MassReview schedules, publish readings and update Mass-specific information that flows into My Parish.
CareReview pastoral requests with context and acknowledge the handoff without waiting to return to the office.
SacramentsSee concise journey progress on mobile, while full case administration remains in Parish Desk.
Parish Desk · desktop staff workspace
Parish Desk
A real parish staff workspace — not a mobile app stretched across a desktop.
The desktop experience is organised around the way a parish office actually works: what is happening today, what needs attention, who owns the next action and where a case sits.
HomeToday’s liturgies, active sacramental work, roster gaps and pastoral attention in one overview.
Parish InboxOne work queue for items requiring a response rather than tasks disappearing across multiple inboxes.
Masses & LiturgiesCelebrants, ministry coverage, replacements, readings and Mass-specific publishing.
Role accessPriests, staff, administrators and finance roles can be given the areas appropriate to their responsibility.
The workspace
One operational view across recurring parish work.
The value is not the number of modules. It is that the modules share parish context, authorised users and a common work model instead of creating another set of disconnected tools.
WORK QUEUE
Parish Inbox
A single place for work that needs review or response.
WORSHIP
Masses & Liturgies
Schedules, celebrants, readings, ministry coverage and replacements.
JOURNEYS
Sacraments
Portfolio progress, missing documents, preparation, dates and next actions.
CARE
Pastoral Requests
Sensitive context, prioritisation, assignment and acknowledgement.
PEOPLE
Parishioners
Parish records and relevant relationship context.
SERVICE
Volunteers & Ministries
Opportunities, rostering and ministry coverage.
COMMUNICATION
Notices + Forms
Parish notices, reusable documents and recurring administration.
FINANCE
Collection Plate
Aggregate totals, Mass-level reconciliation, settlements and finance settings.
Sacramental journeys · Parish Desk
Administrative impact
Turn a long sacramental process into visible, manageable parish work.
The journey engine is designed to keep information, documents, preparation and next actions attached to the same case while preserving the language and purpose of accompaniment.
Parish officeSee active journeys, missing documents, preparation status, dates and next actions; review uploads and keep cases moving.
PriestSee the cases and decisions that genuinely require priestly or canonical attention without tracking every administrative step personally.
CoordinatorManage First Communion or Confirmation cohorts while still seeing individual candidate requirements.
ContinuityA handover no longer depends only on someone’s inbox history, notes or memory.
Before → after
Less work living in inboxes, spreadsheets and staff memory.
The proposal does not assume technology removes pastoral work. It targets the repeatable administrative friction around that work: re-entry, chasing, status enquiries and unclear ownership.
Without a shared journey
With PARISH DOOR
An enquiry arrives by phone, email or PDF.
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A journey is created with a defined current step and owner.
Staff re-enter details into a spreadsheet or local tracker.
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Family information, documents and progress remain attached to the same journey.
Certificates and forms are chased manually.
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Outstanding requirements are visible and can trigger reminders.
Families call or email to ask what has been received or what happens next.
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The parishioner sees status and the next action in My Parish.
A staff handover depends on notes, inbox history or memory.
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The next staff member can see the case state, notes and next action.
Pastoral care · My Parish + Church Portal + Parish Desk
Pastoral service
Give the priest context before the phone rings.
The system can improve the first handoff while keeping pastoral response personal. It is not a triage system deciding whether care is deserved.
PrioritiseUrgent sick or dying requests can surface clearly.
Tailor promptsHospital, home visit, bereavement, prayer and general pastoral needs can ask for different useful context.
AcknowledgeThe parishioner can know the request has been picked up.
Protect boundariesReconciliation requests should never collect or store the content of confession.
Collection Plate · My Parish + Parish Desk
Collection Plate
Simple to give. Clear to reconcile.
Treat giving as a parish function, not merely a donate button. The parishioner can choose how they give; authorised finance roles get the aggregate view needed to reconcile the collection.
ParishionerPreset automatic Sunday giving, manual giving or optional attendance-aware giving where explicitly consented.
FinanceCollection totals grouped by Mass and method, with settlement and reconciliation status.
PaymentsUse an established provider such as Stripe; PARISH DOOR should not store card credentials.
PrivacyThe standard staff view is deliberately aggregated; individual donor detail is limited to legitimate finance or receipt needs.
Who benefits
The value changes by role — the system stays shared.
PARISH DOOR is designed to let each person see the depth they need without making every role operate the whole platform.
Priest
More context. Less status held in memory.
Pastoral requests arrive with useful information; sacramental cases requiring priestly attention are visible; routine administrative progress does not need to be personally tracked.
Parish office + coordinators
One shared operational view.
A common work queue, sacrament progress, liturgy operations, volunteers, notices, documents and next actions with better continuity when staff change or hand work over.
Parish leadership / Archdiocese
A governable foundation.
A potential shared digital standard that can preserve parish identity while enabling role-based access, reusable templates, safeguarding, privacy and finance governance.
Governance + safeguards
The product should earn trust before it asks for scale.
The higher the sensitivity of the workflow, the more important the operating rules become. The pilot should prove the core value while privacy, safeguarding, finance and technology controls are agreed.
ACCESS
Role-based permissions
Parishioner, priest, parish staff, parish administrator and diocesan administrator roles can be separated.
DATA
Pastoral minimisation
Collect only what the parish needs to respond and progress the requested journey.
SACRAMENTS
Human judgement remains
PARISH DOOR should not automate canonical eligibility or priestly judgement.
AUDIT
Important actions are attributable
Publication, acknowledgements and significant case status changes should be attributable to authorised staff.
Pastoral, not industrial
Clarity of case management without turning people into tickets.
The language remains journey, preparation, review and next step because the purpose is accompaniment as well as administration.
PARISH DOOR should reduce friction around real parish life, not replace pastoral judgement, priestly care or face-to-face community.
Proposed pilot
Start with one parish environment. Prove the value. Then decide whether to scale.
The prototype uses St Christopher’s Panania and St Patrick’s Revesby Heights as a realistic two-church design environment. A real pilot would validate workflows, governance, integrations, adoption and staff usability before broader rollout.
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Discovery
Validate parish workflows, governance, required integrations and the minimum viable pilot with clergy and staff.
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Pilot build
My Parish, the staff mobile Church Portal and the full Parish Desk with Mass information, notices, pastoral requests, sacramental journeys, Collection Plate and core administration.
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Live parish pilot
Run with a small cohort and measure administration saved, parishioner completion, response clarity and staff usability.
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Review + scale decision
Assess privacy, safeguarding, adoption, support requirements and whether the model should expand to additional parishes.
The next useful test is with a real parish team.Review the same workflow from both sides: the person using My Parish and the people serving them through Parish Desk.
Return to topPrototype screens and operational figures are illustrative demo data. Public parish information is used only to make the prototype realistic and does not imply endorsement or participation by the churches shown or the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.