Manage celebration schedules

Open Schedules. Under “Let’s celebrate together.”, use “Celebrations” for celebration times or “Confessions” for the other calendar; editing a confession schedule does not update celebrations.

Check the “Place of Worship” panel and use “Change place” when several places are configured. In a pastoral unit, first select the community in the switcher: schedules and exceptions load for the chosen place.

Stay on “Schedules” and select “New schedule”. In “Create a schedule”, complete “Name and status” with a clear public name, then leave “Active” on only when the period should immediately contribute visible times.

Under “When it applies”, choose “Full year”, “Winter schedule”, “Summer schedule”, “Advent and Christmas”, “Lent” or “Custom”. Always review “From” and “To”; “Add another period” is for non-consecutive ranges, not a duplicate of the same range.

Under “Weekly times”, add the right time to each day. An entry can include time, recurrence, celebrant and notes; if a suitable schedule exists, you can copy its times, with confirmation that the copy replaces the current pattern.

Check “What the faithful see” and the save bar: “Complete the required fields” remains until there is a name, period and at least one celebration. “Year not fully covered” marks a gap without an active schedule, while an active overlap blocks saving until corrected.

Select “Save schedule”. Back in the list, inspect the card: “Active”, “Scheduled” or “Expired” describes its state against the period, and the weekly count confirms how many recurrences were saved.

Read “Year coverage” before leaving. If gaps remain, create or activate another schedule; when a place has no regular celebrations, use “No regular celebrations” instead of leaving a misleading schedule.

Open “Exceptions” and move the calendar to the relevant week. “Add celebration” creates a manual entry for the selected day: enter the time and, when useful, celebrant and “Intention or Notes (optional)”, then select “Add”.

Open an existing calculated celebration to change its time, celebrant, notes or calendar group without altering the recurring schedule. To hide it for that date, choose cancellation, optionally enter “Reason for the cancellation” and confirm “Cancel it”; the dialog can also prepare a notice as a separate choice.

Use the final-calendar legend: “From schedule” identifies recurrences, “Manually added” marks added exceptions and “Removed” marks cancellations. Move to the changed date and check that two celebrations are not left when you meant to move one.

Return to “Schedules” and inspect “Public preview · parish page”, or use “Faithful view” from the heading. The preview combines active schedules and saved exceptions; verify place, date and time before announcing the change.