The Parish OS
Your parish, fully alive online.
Nave gives every Catholic parish a complete digital home — parishioner experience, staff operations, and everything in between — under your domain, in every language your community speaks.
Works for 50-family missions. Scales to 4,000-family cathedrals. Built for multilingual communities from day one.
Most parish software was built for accountants, not communities.
It handles your books. It ignores your people. And it speaks only one language.
Nave is different. It runs the whole parish — the website your parishioners use every day and the back office your staff depends on — in one connected platform.
For your parishioners
A home for your parish — in their language.
Everything your parish offers — accessible, current, and genuinely welcoming — at [yourparish].nave.live.
Always know when to show up.
Live Mass and confession schedules that update automatically. Your parishioners never need to call the office to ask what time Saturday Vigil is.
Find it. RSVP. Share it.
A full parish calendar with day-by-day filtering, one-tap RSVP, and WhatsApp share on every event. The Parish Heartbeat shows your entire week — Masses, ministries, and feast days — in a single view, and one tap subscribes it to Google or Apple Calendar so it stays current wherever they already look.
The Church's year, already on your calendar.
Every season, feast, and Holy Day of Obligation — computed automatically, never maintained by hand. Liturgical colors, today's celebration, and a daily scripture verse chosen to match the season greet your parishioners each morning.
Book time with the parish — no phone tag.
Parishioners pick an open slot to meet the pastor or staff, drawn from real availability minus everything already on the calendar. Instant confirmation, automatic reminders, and never a double-booking.
Help, when life is hard.
A community help desk of food, housing, immigration, counseling, and family support — including resources that explicitly serve undocumented neighbors — in every language your parish speaks.
Instant answers — straight from your own pages.
Parishioners type a question — Mass times, sacraments, ministries, office hours — and get an answer drawn only from your live parish pages, in their language. It stays in scope and says “I don't know — please call the office” before it ever guesses, so there are no invented Mass times. Anything it can't answer is pointed back to the office.
Know how to get involved.
Every ministry listed with its weekly meeting schedule, what it does, and how to join — not a PDF from 2019. When your Rosary Society meets on Tuesdays at 6:30pm, the site says so.
Who serves at each Mass — settled.
EMHCs, lectors, altar servers, and hospitality, published per Mass. Members see their own schedule and claim open slots from their phone, reminders go out the day before, and only safe-environment-cleared parishioners can sign up where it's required. No more Saturday-night group texts.
Book a Mass Intention. Request a record. No phone tag.
Reserve a Mass Intention for a loved one in under a minute — real-time slot availability, instant confirmation, case number generated automatically. Need a baptismal certificate? Submit a structured records request without a single phone call.
Give from the pew — or from home.
A clear Ways to Give page brings every way to support your parish into one place, and a per-Mass Online Offertory puts a QR code in the pew that opens your parish's giving page right on a phone — no app, no account. Secure card checkout and recurring gifts, in their language, with every dollar going to the parish.
Your parishioners can finally write back.
Every other parish tool talks AT people: a blast goes out, and a reply — if anyone dares send one — lands in whichever staffer's personal mailbox was on the From line. Nave gives each parishioner an inbox: they read what you sent, reply in one tap, and it arrives in a shared parish inbox any staffer can pick up. Replying to a parish-wide announcement quietly starts a private conversation, so a 500-person reply-all is impossible. In their language, on their phone, with nothing to install.
Carry your community's prayers with you.
A sacred, living space to light a digital votive candle, post an intention, and pray for others. No streaks. No engagement metrics. Just prayer — in every language your parish speaks.
Catholics meeting Catholics — privately.
A parishioners-only board for those seeking a faithful spouse. Listings are anonymous — no names, no contact. Interested? You express interest privately, the other person is notified, and contact is shared only if you both agree. A double-blind introduction, with the parish as a trusted host, never a matchmaker.
Neighbors helping neighbors find honest work.
Help Wanted and Seeking Work, posted by parishioners for parishioners. Anonymous and members-only, with the same private, double-blind introduction — reach out, get connected only on mutual consent. Small ways to make a big difference, before changing the world outside the parish.
The warmest welcome — before they set foot inside.
New families register their household, list their members, share their sacramental history, and choose their ministries — in their language. Parishioners who are moving get a pastoral farewell, not a cancellation form.
The life of your parish, in pictures.
A simple, beautiful photo gallery — the grotto, the bell tower, the chapel, the feast-day processions and ministry life. Staff add photos in a tap; the page only shows up once there's something to see.
For your parish staff
Your back office, finally organized.
Six role tiers. One dashboard. All role-gated, all connected.
Nothing gets lost.
Every new parishioner registration becomes a structured ticket. Log call attempts. Track contact status. See who's been waiting more than seven days.
Everyone sees exactly what they need.
Six role tiers, each scoped to its own tools. The ministry leader sees only their ministry. Safe Environment stays with the office. The pastor approves emergency alerts. Nothing more.
The whole parish at a glance.
A read-only heartbeat dashboard — members, new registrations, sacrament requests, prayer intentions, volunteer hours, and Safe Environment compliance — derived live from your data, no spreadsheets.
A directory you can finally trust.
Households and their members in one place, kept current by the people who know best — parishioners update their own records through the welcome flow.
Run the bodies that run the parish.
Pastoral council, finance council, and every committee & commission — each with a goal, members, leaders, meetings, agendas, and minutes — organized and role-gated, instead of scattered across inboxes.
Two groups, one hall, zero surprises.
Schedule rooms across Masses, ministries, and events with automatic conflict detection — and mirror an external calendar in, so the whole parish works from one source of truth.
Compliance without the spreadsheet audit.
Your VIRTUS roster, filtered by status: cleared, expiring, expired, incomplete. One-tap remind. No more manual audits before a diocesan deadline.
Staff draft. Pastor approves. System broadcasts.
A gated workflow that ensures no one sends an emergency alert by accident — and no emergency goes unsent when it matters.
Reach every parishioner — their way.
Email and text-message (SMS) reminders, announcements, and alerts — sent in each member's language and gated by their own opt-in preferences. Day-before nudges for events, serving, and renewals send themselves. No Saturday-night group texts, and no one over-messaged.
A polished bulletin, assembled for you.
Each week's bulletin builds itself from the parish data you already keep — Mass times, events, intentions, the Sunday readings — into a print-ready, multilingual newspaper that paginates identically on screen and on paper. No desktop-publishing, no copy-paste.
Online giving — from the pew, for the right eyes.
A data-driven Ways to Give hub and per-Mass Online Offertory — one QR per Mass — are live today. Native card checkout, recurring gifts, and the finance back office (a unified contribution ledger with budget vs. actuals and year-end tax statements) are rolling out, visible to finance roles and private from everyone else.
For the pastor
Lead your parish — not your software.
See everything, approve what matters, and trust the rest to run. Nave gives you the full picture of your parish without adding one more thing to manage.
See everything. Touch only what matters.
Every queue, ministry, registration, and number — visible to you, role-gated to the right people. The full picture, without micromanaging.
The buck still stops with you.
Emergency alerts, role assignments, and sensitive changes route through your approval. Nothing important happens without you.
Shepherd your people, not your paperwork.
The schedule, welcome queue, and bulletin keep themselves current. The platform handles the admin so you can handle the parish.
Nothing falls through the cracks.
Accurate Mass times, current Safe Environment status, follow-ups that don't get forgotten — quietly handled.
Reliable by design
Always accurate. Never guessing.
Mass times are always right — because Nave reads them from your live parish schedule, not a text field someone last touched in February. The liturgical season, feast days, and Holy Days are computed from the date itself, so no one maintains them. New content is written once in English and auto-translated into every language your parish speaks for staff review — nothing sits untranslated, and human edits are never overwritten.
In a place where being wrong has real consequences, the platform earns trust by being right — quietly, every time.
“Ask St. Mary's” — a parish assistant that will answer questions in every language your parish speaks, sourced only from your live parish data, and say “I don't know, please call the office” before it ever guesses. Built on the same reliability-first foundation above.
Multilingual
Every language your community speaks. Co-equal from day one.
Not a translation layer. Not an afterthought. Every interface, every modal, every notification — in every language your parish speaks. English, Spanish, and Tagalog ship today, and the engine adds more: the Diocese of San José alone celebrates Mass in four. Because language is how you tell someone they belong.
For diocese leaders
Bring your whole diocese into the 21st century.
One platform. Consistent experience. Each parish's own identity. Nave gives diocese leadership a standardized infrastructure for parishioner engagement, safe environment compliance, and emergency communications — without mandating a uniform look across every parish.
Your parish, front and center
A web address your parishioners actually remember.
Your site already wears your parish's colors, logo, and patron — in every language your community speaks. Your address should belong to you too. Choose either, switch anytime:
A branded subdomain
Every parish gets a clean, memorable address on Nave the day it launches — secured with HTTPS automatically, nothing to buy or configure.
st-marys-gilroy.nave.liveYour own domain
Already have a domain your parishioners know? Point it at Nave and we handle the secure setup. Keep your identity — only the site behind it gets better.
www.stmarysgilroy.orgStart on a subdomain today and connect your own domain whenever you're ready — your content, links, and logins don't change.
Pricing
Priced for parishes, not enterprises.
One simple rate per parish that scales with your community — never per-seat, never per-feature. Diocesan rates for multi-parish.
Mission
Small parishes & missions
- Multilingual parishioner site (EN/ES/TL + more)
- Mass schedule, events & calendar
- Welcome & registration flow
- Prayer wall & weekly bulletin
Parish
Most parishes
- Everything in Mission
- Full staff back office & role tiers
- Welcome queue, sacraments & intentions
- Rooms, conflicts & self-service booking
Diocese
Whole-diocese deployment
- Every parish, its own identity
- Standardized rollout & onboarding
- Safe Environment & emergency comms
- Consolidated billing & support
“Finally, software that respects the complexity of what we actually do.”
“Our Filipino families and Latino families can both use the same platform without compromising. That never existed before.”
“The welcome queue alone saved us three hours a week. We used to track new registrations in a Google Sheet.”
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Is our parish data private?
Yes. Each parish's data is isolated at the database level — one parish can never see another's. We never sell it or use it for ads, and you can export it anytime. Your data is yours.
Does this replace our staff?
No — it removes the busywork. Phone tag, spreadsheets, and manual audits go away, so your people spend their time on people, not paperwork.
Is the “Ask the parish” assistant available yet?
Yes — it's live on every parish site. It answers only from your live parish data, stays in scope, and says “I don't know — please call the office” before it ever guesses. No invented Mass times.
Can we keep our own domain?
Yes — two ways. Every parish gets a free branded subdomain like yourparish.nave.live the day it launches, and you can connect your own domain (e.g. www.yourparish.org) whenever you're ready. Either way it's secured with HTTPS, and your content, links, and logins don't change.
What languages are supported?
Nave is multilingual by design. English, Spanish, and Tagalog ship today — co-equal on every screen and notification — and the engine adds more as your diocese needs them (San José alone celebrates Mass in four). Not a translation bolt-on.
How long does it take to launch?
Days, not months. We configure your schedule, ministries, events, and staff roles, and you're live.
What does it cost?
Parish-sized pricing that scales with your community — never per-seat, never per-feature. Request a quote and we'll tailor it to your parish or diocese.
How it works
You're live in days, not months.
01
Tell us about your parish.
We configure Nave with your schedule, ministries, events, and staff roles.
02
Your parishioners get a home.
[yourparish].nave.live is live — in English, Spanish, Tagalog, and more.
03
Your staff gets a back office.
Roles are assigned, queues are active, and the platform learns your parish's rhythms.
04
We handle the updates.
Mass schedules, events, and announcements stay current — your staff manages them from one dashboard, and translations keep themselves in sync.
Your parish deserves this.
Not next year. Not after a six-month implementation. Now.