Publish Mass times people can actually find

Give the schedule a stable home

Choose one page on the official parish website as the main schedule. Link it from the homepage and make its label obvious: “Mass times” tells a visitor more than “Resources.” Keep that address stable when the timetable changes so old links remain useful.

Publish the essential information as selectable text. A poster or bulletin can accompany it, but a visitor should not need to download a file, decipher a photograph or open a social-media account to discover Sunday Mass.

Write each entry as a complete instruction

For each recurring celebration, publish the day, local time, service and church or chapel. State the language when relevant. Distinguish public celebrations from private events and name any access or reservation requirements.

This example is a format, not a real church schedule. If the parish serves several buildings, group entries by building or repeat the location on every line. Keep office hours separate from worship and church-opening hours.

Give exceptions their own dates

A visitor needs to know whether the ordinary timetable applies on the date of a journey. Put Christmas, Holy Week, holidays and temporary changes beside the regular schedule, with a clear start and end date. Replace “next Saturday” with the calendar date.

After an exception ends, remove its banner or move it into an archive marked as past. If an event is cancelled, say what is cancelled and whether another service replaces it. Do not leave readers to infer a change from an older poster.

Make maintenance someone’s responsibility

Assign an owner who can update the page when the priest, office or liturgy team changes the schedule. Put a visible “last checked” date on the timetable only when someone has actually checked it. Review the page before major seasons and whenever the normal pattern changes.

• Open the page on a phone and check the text size.
• Follow the schedule link from the parish homepage.
• Check every building address and official contact link.
• Ask a person unfamiliar with the parish to find a Sunday Mass and its entrance.

Share the source, then check the directory

Send Catholic Intelligence the stable schedule URL and the parish record it belongs to through the correction form. Include the exact entries that need attention. If you support several parishes, discuss a partnership so we can agree the scope, source ownership and review process.

Our provenance statement and guide to keeping the record describe how sources and uncertainty fit into the work. A submitted source is an invitation to check the record, not an automatic publication.