Every feature
Everything Nave does, for everyone in the parish.
The home page shows six. This is the whole list, grouped by who uses it.
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. Save it. Share it.
A full parish calendar with day-by-day filtering and WhatsApp share on every event, and RSVPs with a waitlist for the parishes that turn them on. 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 notice everyone actually sees.
A Mass-time change, a second collection, a registration deadline — posted once in plain English and shown on the home page and in the bulletin, in every language your parish speaks. Set when it goes live and when it comes down, attach the flyer the Knights handed you instead of retyping it, or point it at a calendar event so the time and place can never disagree.
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.
Raise a hand — and count the hours.
Every open volunteer opportunity, with its schedule, place and spots left; signing up takes just a name. Confirmation candidates keep their own service-hours log on their phone, with a running total toward the 40-hour goal, and the parish verifies each entry — no paper sheet to lose the week before the Rite.
Sunday Mass, one tap from the front page.
A camera button on the home page opens the stream your parish already runs — YouTube, Facebook or your own live page — and reads "Live now" on its own while Mass is streaming. The church's streaming PC tells Nave the moment the broadcast starts and stops, the Mass schedule covers a parish without it, and the office keeps a one-tap switch — so there is nothing to remember on Sunday and nothing left claiming a stream on Thursday. Nave neither hosts nor records the stream; it gets the homebound parishioner to it.
Know who to ask — and reach them.
Clergy, the parish office, and faith formation in one directory, each with the address that actually reaches them. It is built from the org chart the office already keeps, so there is no second staff page to go stale the week someone retires — and a seat the parish marks private stays private, not merely unlinked. Councils and commissions can be published alongside it, one body at a time, entirely at the parish's discretion.
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.
From the first request to the certificate.
Every sacrament, start to finish, without a phone call. Reserve a Mass Intention in under a minute, with real-time availability and instant confirmation. Register a child for Baptism, First Communion or Confirmation — or an adult for OCIA — and follow the whole preparation from your phone: the class schedule, what is still outstanding, and each rite as it is celebrated. Need a baptismal certificate? Request it, and a confident match against the parish register issues it to you directly.
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. Card checkout and recurring gifts are built and switch on once your parish connects payment processing.
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.
Hear how the site is working — from the people using it.
A link at the foot of every page lets anyone rate the parish website from one to five stars and say what could be better. No account, under a minute, in their language. Every note goes straight to the team that builds Nave, so what confuses a parishioner gets fixed instead of landing on the office's desk.
For your parish staff
Your back office, finally organized.
Access set per person, one feature at a time. One dashboard. 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.
No roles to decode: for each person you tick what they can read, change, or publish, one feature at a time — and see what they will see before you save. The ministry leader sees only their ministry. Safe Environment stays with the office. The pastor approves emergency alerts. Nothing more.
Know who changed what — and when.
Much of a parish back office runs on volunteers and short-term helpers, so every consequential change — access granted, a sacramental record corrected, an announcement published, an alert sent — lands in one trail with who did it and when. Opening sensitive records, like Safe Environment, the census or giving, is noted too. No one in the parish can edit or delete an entry, and the trail outlives a departed volunteer's account.
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.
Notice who is drifting — while there is time to call.
Every household sorted into Active, Cooling or Dormant by the last time the parish saw them — a check-in, an RSVP, a gift, service hours or a Mass intention. The families you haven't heard from in months come with a one-tap email or call, so the pastor reaches out before they are gone. Nothing new to track: it is read from what the parish already keeps.
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 open only to the people you choose, 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. Volunteers work through their own certification from their phone — pick a track, upload the certificate — and the office verifies it once. No more manual audits before a diocesan deadline.
Every cohort, every candidate, every record.
Run Confirmation, First Communion and OCIA like a class: a cohort with a roster, a session schedule, attendance taken on the day, and each candidate's rites logged as they are celebrated. Who is behind is a page, not an afternoon with a binder — and the register writes itself, certificates printing from it.
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 reminders, announcements, and alerts — sent in each member's language and gated by their own opt-in preferences. Text messages (SMS) are built and switch on once your parish's number is registered. Day-before nudges for events, serving, and renewals send themselves. No Saturday-night group texts, and no one over-messaged. And when someone says they never got it, the Email Log shows whether it went out, and why not if it didn't.
A letter from the pastor, to everyone at once.
Write it once with headings, lists and links, and attach the flyer or the letter itself. Send it to the whole parish, one ministry, one language group or a single person. Each parishioner reads it in their own language, and you can correct any translation by hand. Send yourself a test first, or schedule it for Sunday morning. Replies come back to the parish inbox, not to someone's personal email.
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. The back page carries your local advertisers and parishioners' classifieds, so the bulletin helps pay for itself. 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; card checkout and recurring gifts are built and switch on once payment processing goes live. The finance back office — a unified contribution ledger, pledges and campaigns, budget vs. actuals, and bank import — is available as its own tier, seen only by the people you grant 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, and open to others only as far as you allow. The full picture, without micromanaging.
The buck still stops with you.
Emergency alerts wait for your approval, and who can open what in the back office is yours to decide. 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 the Parish” answers questions in every language your parish speaks — Mass times, sacraments, ministries, office hours — sourced only from your live parish pages. It holds to the standard above literally: it searches your own content rather than composing an answer, so it cannot invent a Mass time, and it says “I don't know, please call the office” before it ever guesses.
Your parish, front and center
A web address your parishioners actually remember.
Your parish picks its own colors, typeface and home-page layout, adds its logo and patron, and can change any of them from the back office whenever it likes, with no designer and 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.
smpgilroy.orgStart on a subdomain today and connect your own domain whenever you're ready — your content, links, and logins don't change.
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