Today, we added a new Urgent hour threshold setting that lets you define how many adorers an hour must still need before it counts as urgent. Set it to 3, for example, and only hours needing three or more adorers are highlighted, drawing attention to the slots that need it most.

The Urgent hour threshold appears in Admin » Settings » Schedule once you enable Highlight urgently needed hours.

Your threshold applies everywhere urgency is shown: the highlight on the Schedule and Calendar pages, the embeddable widget, the urgent view on your dashboard, and the printed schedule.

We've seen firsthand how moving your adoration chapel schedule online brings peace of mind to both coordinators and adorers.

But we also know the main parish office still handles plenty of other complex, paper-heavy tasks.

One of the most time-consuming? Managing the Mass Intention book. Between sticky notes, paper binders, manual calendar tracking, and handling cash or check offerings, keeping track of Mass intentions can eat up hours of the parish office's week.

That is why we are thrilled to introduce MassRequest.com—a brand-new, modern software solution designed from the ground up to help Catholic parishes easily receive, schedule, and manage Mass intentions online.

Zero Cost to Your Parish

We built MassRequest.com to be accessible to every Catholic community. The software is completely free for parishes to use. There are no setup fees, no monthly subscriptions, and no hidden contracts. Your parish budget remains completely untouched while your office gets a massive upgrade.

Software That Respects Canon Law

We know how vital it is for parish software to align with Church governance. MassRequest.com was built with a deep understanding of Catholic parish life, ensuring the platform respects and adheres to Canon Law regarding Mass offerings, scheduling stipulations, and fulfillment tracking.

Key Features You'll Love

MassRequest.com brings the same thoughtful design you love about We Adore Him into the parish office:

• Online Requests & Secure Offerings — Parishioners can browse available dates, request intentions, and securely submit offerings online from the comfort of home, significantly reducing office foot traffic and phone calls.
• Intuitive Intention Management — Effortlessly organize traditional practices like multiple intentions and specific calendar requests.
• Thoughtful Administrative Reports — Instantly generate financial printouts, intention summaries, and weekly schedules to keep your staff, priests, and bulletin editors perfectly aligned.

Ready to Simplify Your Parish Office?

If you love how automated scheduling transformed your adoration chapel, we are confident your parish staff will love what MassRequest.com does for the rectory. Whether you are a parish secretary looking to save hours of data entry, or a coordinator who wants to share a great tool with your pastor, we invite you to take a look.

To explore all the features or to set up your parish for free, visit MassRequest.com today. You can also click below to see it in action! 🙏

Today, we added a shortcut that opens the New Adorer form with the guest's name, email, phone number, and language already filled in. You review the details and save. No retyping.

You can start from either of two places:

• The Guest adorer checked in admin notification email now includes a link that opens the prefilled New Adorer form.
• On the Admin » Visits page, the row menu for a guest visit offers a Create account action that does the same thing.

Once you save the new account, the original guest visit is automatically linked to that adorer.

Now each of these notifications has its own scope. When you enable one on a person's account, choose Assigned hours to be notified only about the hours they manage, or All hours to be notified about every hour on the schedule. With All hours, an administrator can keep watch over the entire schedule without claiming a single hour.

To set it up, edit any administrator or captain from Admin » Adorers and enable an admin notification. The scope and delivery method appear right beneath it.

The banner appears only to signed-in adorers who haven't committed to an hour and aren't signed up as a substitute. It points them toward two simple ways to get involved:

• Make a commitment by clicking an open hour on the Schedule.
• Become a substitute by turning on Notify me of substitute requests in their account.

As soon as an adorer does one of these things, the banner disappears.

It's a small touch with a real purpose: turning more of your sign-ups into adorers who show up before the Blessed Sacrament. 🙏

You can open an hour before or after another day's monthly occurrence. Just pick a day, choose before or after, and pick the week to anchor it to.

This is handy for monthly adoration that spans several days. A parish might begin its First Saturday devotion the Friday before the 1st Saturday, or run a First Friday vigil all the way from the Tuesday before the 1st Friday through the Saturday after the 1st Friday.

Learn more about commitment frequencies and monthly hours.

Enjoy! 🗓️

If your chapel uses intersecting commitment contact sharing, clicking it first opens a prompt nudging the adorer to check with the other adorers scheduled around their hour before letting the Substitute Finder take over.

Now you can turn that prompt off, sending Request Substitute straight to the confirmation step and skipping the prompt entirely.

Toggle whether this prompt appears with the Show the Other Adorers prompt when requesting a substitute setting at Admin » Settings » Substitutes.

The view other adorers link stays on the dashboard for anyone who wants to reach out personally. A small change, but one more way to fit We Adore Him to how your chapel works. 🏃

The adorer Help page is different from our Help Center. The Help page lives on your chapel website for your adorers, while our Help Center is the documentation written for administrators and hourly captains.

The answers are grouped into the four things adorers do most:

• Adorer Account - logging in, signing up, resetting a password, updating contact info and notification preferences, and who can see their information.
• Adoration Commitments - signing up for an hour, changing or canceling a commitment, and reminders before their hour.
• Substitute Requests - requesting a substitute and becoming one.
• Attendance - how to check in at the chapel.

The new FAQ covers how to use the website, but your chapel may have its own policies and questions to share. Anything you put in your Sitewide Message also appears on the Help page, so it's a great spot for things like adoration protocols.

Adorers can reach the new page anytime from the Help link on your chapel website. We hope it makes the first steps a little easier for everyone you serve. 📖

Two New Settings

On the Admin » Settings » Commitments page, you'll find two new options for how far in advance reminders are sent:

• Default reminder lead time for new commitments - The default for regular commitments, replacing the previous fixed three hours before.
• Default reminder lead time for substitute commitments - A separate default for the one-time commitments created when someone claims a substitute request.

For example, a parish can remind adorers a full day ahead of their regular hour, giving them plenty of time to request a substitute if something comes up, while still sending substitute reminders just a few hours before.

Smart Overnight Timing

Nobody wants a reminder in the middle of the night. If your chosen lead time would land during overnight hours, We Adore Him automatically shifts the reminder earlier, into the daytime of the evening before. For instance, a 6 AM commitment with a one-day lead time will be reminded at 8 PM two evenings prior, rather than at 6 AM the day before. Learn more about how this works.

Updating Existing Commitments

Your new default applies going forward, but you can apply it to existing commitments too. On the Admin » Commitments page, select the commitments to update, then choose Set reminder lead time from the bulk edit options. The overnight timing is applied automatically to each one.

Adorers Still Have the Final Say

Your default is just a starting point. Adorers can still pick their own timing for any commitment, now up to 48 hours before, which takes precedence over the site default.

Until now, opening the kiosk on a second device to troubleshoot could interfere with that monitoring. The system would treat the new device as the active kiosk, so the last update time and offline alerts followed whichever device pinged most recently. Coordinators trying to confirm what was showing on the chapel iPad sometimes set off false offline alerts in the process.

Today we're adding a test mode for the kiosk. Add ?testing=1 to the kiosk address, like kiosk.weadorehim.com/?testing=1, and that device runs the full kiosk while keeping the last update time and offline notifications tied to your main kiosk.

Now you can open the kiosk from another device or location, see what adorers see, and troubleshoot with confidence, all without disturbing the live kiosk in the chapel.

For more ways to get your kiosk back online, see our kiosk troubleshooting steps.