Parish notices, an app for priests
Parish Notices
Over the last few years the world has undergone a great evolution, a great technological change. There is no doubt that online stores and apps, also known as mobile applications, have had a lot to do with this change.
There are countless online stores and applications that offer all kinds of services and sell all kinds of items.
In Religious Articles Brabander we are committed to new technologies because we believe that they facilitate parish life. We make a continuous effort to renew and update our online store of articles for parishes . An easily navigable online store allows you to buy intuitively, it serves so that priests and their parish collaborators can do their work more efficiently and effectively.
Today we are not going to talk about our online store of religious articles, we want to present you a new app that is very much in line with our mentality. An app to facilitate the life of the priest. A notification app to keep parishioners informed of parish life.
Parish notices, an app for priests
A priest, in the daily life of the parish, has to carry out a large number of activities. In addition, many priests have to manage several parishes. This type of situation consumes a great amount of time to the priests.
Within the work of any priest we can include the celebration of Masses ; impart Sacraments : Baptisms, First Communions , etc; have meetings with parishioners; activities related to the parish office and all the papers that are generated in the day to day of the parish, etc… Organizing all the events of a parish is complex and requires strict discipline. The priest must be able to find a place for all the activities and solve the problems of his parishioners.
Once the priest manages to fit all the parish activities, he must make the schedules known to his parishioners. This is a crucial moment, because if people interested in participating in parish activities do not receive the right information at the right time, all the priest's coordination and organization work loses part of its great value.
There are traditional notification methods that have been used for a long time. The most used method is for the priest to communicate the information once the liturgical celebration is over. Other methods widely used by priests of all types of parishes is to put up posters or use the parish leaflet.
These parish notifications have been very useful but can be ineffective: some parishioner interested in the information may not read it, the priest has to think about when to publish the announcements, some notifications may overlap with others, etc...
To solve this situation, the mobile app Parroquial Notices has arrived. Mobile application developed by the company Interim Tecnológico SL . Available for IOS (Apple) and Android (Samsung, Sony, Bq, etc…).
Parish notices, app operation
The Parish Notices app is a very simple tool to use. At first it is configured with the particular needs of the priest and the parish. This initial process can take between one and two weeks.
Once configured, the online notices or notifications that the priest wishes to communicate begin to be established. These notices are stored for later consultation. Each of the notifications can be filed in four categories:
Masses and celebrations
meetings and gatherings
Pastoral and activities
Intentions and deaths
Online notifications can only be seen by people who have installed Parish Notices.
Parish notices, advantages for the priest
Parish Notices has the ability to post parish information, including a picture, your address, and parish office hours.
It also allows you to insert links to external online pages to the app, such as Facebook , the parish website, etc... In this way, the display of the other online tools used by the priest to publicize the parish can be increased.
It facilitates the coordination and dissemination of all kinds of events, from the celebration of Masses to brotherhood meetings , from nativity scene contests to catechesis, from youth workshops to meetings of engaged couples preparing for their marriage, etc...
In addition to helping in the organization and coordination of the people closest to the parish, through its online functionality, the app allows people who are physically far from the parish to be aware of all the activities carried out by the priest and his assistants.
Parish notices, advantages for parishioners
Parochial notices has as its ultimate goal the creation of a community of parishioners around a priest and a parish .
A parish is defined by its priest and the community that contributes every day to its smooth running.
With Parish Notices and its notification system, they allow parishioners to be aware of all the acts and celebrations that take place in the parish. These notifications may include the call for Catechesis, the coordination of visits to the elderly and the sick, events related to the celebration of Sacraments : dates of Baptisms and Weddings, etc...
If you are a priest or a parishioner and you want to improve communication and coordination of activities within your parish, do not hesitate and contact Religious Articles Brabander. We will facilitate the steps you have to take to improve the life of your parish.