MassRequest.com

Features

Everything a Catholic parish needs to manage Mass intentions, from request to fulfillment.

Easy Request Submission

No account required. Guests provide their name, email, and intention details. A verification email confirms their identity and creates their account automatically.

Request multiple Masses at once and submit them together with a single offering. Requesters can optionally specify a preferred date, include a voluntary Mass offering (pay online or at the parish), and send a Mass card to a loved one.

Public Mass Calendar

A beautiful month-view calendar on every parish's homepage showing available and taken Mass times. Parishioners can click any available slot to request a Mass intention with the date pre-filled.

Logged-in users see their own intentions highlighted on the calendar with clickable links back to their dashboard.

Automated Notifications

Requesters are notified at every stage: confirmation, scheduling, day-before reminders, fulfillment, and offering receipts. Every email includes a one-click link to their dashboard — no password needed.

Scheduling and reminder emails include calendar attachments so recipients can add the Mass to Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar.

Admins are notified of every new request. Priests receive configurable follow-up reminders for past-due intentions.

Online Mass Offerings

Parishes connect their bank account so offerings go directly to the parish. Admins set a suggested offering amount and have the option to cover the processing fee so that parishioners don't have to.

Parishioners can pay online or at the parish. Unpaid offerings can be completed later from the dashboard. Canceling or rejecting an intention with a paid online offering automatically triggers a refund.

Admins can record manual payments (cash or check) and view offering status on every intention. Receipts are sent automatically for all payments.

Parishioner Dashboard

Every parishioner gets a personal dashboard showing all their Mass intentions as timeline cards. Track each intention through Requested, Scheduled, and Offered stages at a glance.

From the dashboard, parishioners can pay outstanding offerings, cancel pending requests (with automatic refund for online payments), download printable Mass card PDFs, and send a thank you note to the priest.

Digital Mass Cards

When requesting a Mass intention, parishioners can name a recipient to receive a digital Mass card. After the Mass is offered, the recipient is automatically notified by email.

Requesters can also download a beautifully formatted, printable Mass card PDF from their dashboard to hand-deliver or mail.

Thank You Notes

After a Mass is fulfilled, requesters can send a personal thank you note to the priest who celebrated it. It's a simple, meaningful way to connect parishioners with their priests.

Admin Dashboard

Start each day with a clear picture. The admin dashboard shows this week's and next week's Masses at a glance, highlighting any that still need an intention or priest assigned. A built-in bulletin snippet is ready to copy for the weekly bulletin.

The admin calendar shows all Mass schedule slots at a glance. Click open slots to assign pending intentions — requests with a matching preferred date are highlighted automatically. Assign Pro Populo to any open slot for the pastor's Sunday obligation.

The Masses data table provides a filterable list view of all Masses with actions for editing, scheduling, cancellation, and concelebrant management. View, filter, and manage all Mass intentions with real-time status counts.

Record manual payments, set published intention wording for the bulletin, and use canned responses for common cancelation and unscheduling reasons. Configure every aspect of your parish's settings from one place.

Bundled Mass Intentions

Support Triduum (3 Masses), Novena (9 Masses), and Gregorian (30 Masses) requests alongside standard single-Mass intentions. Each bundle type can be independently enabled with its own recommended offering amount.

Admins schedule each Mass in the series one at a time, with progress tracking and a "Next open" button to auto-fill the next available slot. Requesters are notified once the full bundle is scheduled.

Recurring Mass Schedules

Define weekly or monthly recurring Mass times with support for exception dates. Schedules can be marked as unlisted (hidden from the public calendar but visible to admins).

Individual Masses can be added directly from the admin calendar by clicking any date. Cancel individual occurrences of recurring Masses when needed — and restore them if plans change.

Intake Management

Temporarily pause new requests when your backlog is full, with an optional custom message explaining why. Visitors can join a waitlist to be notified by email when intake resumes.

Enable auto-pause to automatically stop accepting requests when pending intentions reach the available Mass slot capacity for the next 12 months. All admins are notified when it triggers.

Set a yearly request limit per user (with per-user overrides), and unpause with one click when you're ready — choosing whether to notify everyone on the waitlist.

Reports & Analytics

A comprehensive reporting dashboard to keep your parish informed. Annual reports summarize Masses offered, offerings collected, and stipends disbursed — with breakdowns by priest and month, exportable as CSV or PDF.

Track your backlog with wait times, monitor schedule utilization to see which days fill up, review offering financials, follow up on pending payments, and manage priest stipend payouts — all from one place.

Bulletin Integration

Generate a downloadable QR code linking to your parish's request form, ready to print in your weekly bulletin.

View formatted weekly Mass intention snippets in plain text or CSV, with copy and download buttons. The bulletin page warns when scheduled Masses have no intention assigned.

Embeddable Widgets

Let parishioners request Masses directly from your parish website. Copy a snippet from the Promote page and paste it into any page on your site — no plugins, no build tools, no account required.

Choose between the full Request a Mass form or a compact Mini Mass Calendar that highlights available dates. Both widgets match your parish's timezone and schedule automatically, and degrade gracefully to a plain link when JavaScript is disabled.

Stipend Disbursements

Track batch stipend payouts to priests per Canon Law. Select a priest, pick eligible intentions (fulfilled with paid offering), review the summary, and record the payment method.

Configure a diocesan stipend rate per intention. The Reports page shows outstanding stipends at a glance with quick links to create disbursements.

Priest Management & Dashboard

Manage your full roster of priests in one place — resident clergy and visiting priests alike. Each priest gets a personal dashboard to view assigned intentions, mark Masses fulfilled individually or in bulk, and claim available Masses.

Configurable follow-up reminders keep fulfillment on track, with one-click links to mark intentions complete directly from the inbox.

Calendar Feeds

Admins and priests can subscribe to a personal iCal feed of scheduled Mass intentions. Add it to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook and it stays in sync automatically.

Canon Law Compliance

Pro Populo — Mark recurring Mass schedules or individual calendar slots as Pro Populo for the pastor's Sunday and holy day obligation, displayed distinctly on the calendar.

Concelebration — Support for multiple priests concelebrating the same Mass, each with their own intention and stipend tracking per Canon 945 and 951.

Intention capacity — Optional auto-pause stops intake when pending intentions reach available Mass slot capacity for the next year, keeping your parish in line with Canon Law.

Voluntary offerings — Online and in-person offerings are tracked with full payment lifecycle, receipts, and automatic refunds. Follow-up emails emphasize that offerings are entirely voluntary and never affect whether a Mass is offered.

Security & Authentication

Two-factor authentication for admin and priest accounts. Passwordless login links let parishioners access their dashboard without remembering a password.

Built-in spam prevention ensures only verified requests reach your inbox. Rate limiting and email verification protect against abuse without adding friction for real parishioners.

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