Beyond the Button: How eCatholic Dynamically Communicates Your Mass Times

Every parish staff member knows the number one reason people visit a church website: to find out when they can celebrate Mass, go to Confession, or spend time in Eucharistic Adoration.

Because communicating sacrament times is the single most important job your website has, it might be tempting to just drop a static “Mass Times” button on your homepage and call it a day. But at eCatholic, we know that sharing accurate mass and sacrament times with the community requires dynamic, proactive communication. eCatholic makes it so you don't have to hunt down every mention of your mass, confession, and adoration times across your website.

In fact, we realized this years ago, which is why we built a robust, industry-setting MassTime™ feature that is way more than just a button. And this feature helps you quickly and efficiently update confession and adoration times too. Get ready to save time and the headache that comes with frustrated visitors who find outdated mass and sacrament times on your website.

Here's a look at how eCatholic’s MassTime™ functionality works behind the scenes to beautifully welcome people to your pews, all while saving you time and headache.

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The Power of MassTime™ Alerts

When the weekend rolls around, your website traffic naturally spikes. We built our unique MassTime™ Alerts feature to guarantee visitors find what they are looking for the moment they land on your site. Rather than a manual banner you have to remember to turn on, this is a smart, automated popup display that activates exactly when Mass is imminent.

For example, if you have a Saturday evening Vigil, the alert automatically springs into action at noon on Saturday, prominently displaying your upcoming weekend Masses. As each Mass begins, it dynamically drops off the list, chronologically featuring the next available liturgy. Fifteen minutes after your final Sunday Mass begins, the popup neatly tucks itself away until next time. It’s proactive, intuitive communication at its finest!

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Update Once, Updates Everywhere

Updates to mass, confession, and adoration times are made once and in one place, saving you so much time and headache. Gone are the days of hunting down every single page on your website where you listed the Sunday Mass times. With eCatholic, you manage your sacrament times from one centralized dashboard. Because our system utilizes smart, dynamic modules, any update you make to sacrament times instantly updates your MassTimes button and anywhere you have used a Mass, Confession, or Adoration times module across your entire website.

Whether the times live on your homepage, a sacraments page, or on every page of your website, they are always perfectly accurate and beautifully formatted. Your parish is a hub of sacramental life all week long and our tool allows you to prominently communicate Confession and Adoration times right alongside your Mass times.

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Custom Notes & Details

Sometimes you need to give additional context. That’s why you can easily add custom notes and details to your Mass, Confession, and Adoration times. You can include helpful details like:

• Language options (e.g., Spanish, Bilingual)
• Specific locations (like a separate adoration chapel or daily Mass in a different location)
• Links to live streams
• Liturgy types so visitors know exactly what to expect

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Seamless Holy Days & Special Masses

The liturgical year is rich and varied, which means your Mass times don’t stick to a standard weekly loop. With eCatholic, you can load your Holy Days of Obligation and other special liturgies — like Ash Wednesday, Triduum liturgies, graduation Masses, or a parish feast day — months in advance. The system will automatically display your special Mass times when the season arrives, and seamlessly revert to your normal times when it’s over.

You never have to stay up late on Christmas night to manually take the holiday times off your homepage!

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Built for Catholics on the Go

Your parishioners and visitors are frequently looking you up on their phones. Our MassTime™ displays are highly responsive, meaning they look stunning and are incredibly easy to read on any smartphone, tablet, or desktop — so the faithful can always find what they need, wherever they are.

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Powerful Integrations: FindaMass.org & Parish Finder

Our MassTime™ feature doesn't just work on your eCatholic website - it talks to the broader Catholic community

• Global Reach with FindaMass.org: We structure our data to play beautifully with national databases like FindaMass.org. This integration ensures that traveling Catholics can easily find your parish, and the most up-to-date sacrament times, no matter where they are searching from.
• Diocesan Parish Finder Integration: For our diocesan clients, local parish mass, confession, and adoration times automatically sync with the diocesan Parish Finder. When updates are made at the parish level, the diocesan map updates automatically. No more double data entry or having to wait for the communications office to manually update sacrament times! To learn more about this, or if your diocese is interested in leveraging the diocesan parish/school finder, please reach out to our team.