Faith / Catholic Church
A parish app that knows the difference between Ordinary Time and Lent, and changes the Mass schedule the week the season does.
Most parish apps are a templated shell with your logo dropped in. Rehost builds a custom app for your parish, in your branding, on an App Store account in the parish's name, for $250/mo per campus. Your parish secretary messages our team to change a confession time. They never log into a dashboard.
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A Catholic parish doesn't run on one weekly service. It runs on a vigil Mass, a Sunday cycle of three or four Masses, a daily Mass schedule, confession windows that shift around Holy Week, holy days of obligation that move every year, and a liturgical calendar that recolors the whole season. A generic church app treats all of that as a single recurring event. It isn't, and parishioners notice the moment the app says Mass is at 10 when the schedule moved to 9 for the summer.
Then there's the sacramental side that no Protestant template was built for: baptism preparation, First Communion classes, Confirmation tracks, RCIA cohorts moving toward the Easter Vigil, marriage prep, anointing of the sick. These are records a parish keeps for life, sometimes for the diocese, and parents and catechists need a clear way to see where a candidate is in the process.
Rehost builds the parish what it actually needs and operates it from there. Mass and confession schedules that follow the liturgical calendar, sacrament tracking your DRE can read, saint-of-the-day and daily readings tied to the lectionary, second-collection prompts, and parish registration. The parish owns the App Store account, the domain, the repo, and the parishioner data. Staff never touch a CMS.
What a Catholic parish app actually needs.
Mass schedule on the liturgical calendar
Vigil, Sunday cycle, daily Mass, and holy days of obligation, surfaced with the right season and color. When the summer schedule changes or Ash Wednesday adds Masses, your secretary messages us and the app updates. Parishioners stop calling the office to confirm times.
Confession and adoration times that hold up at Easter
Standing reconciliation windows plus the extra Holy Week and Advent penance services, with adoration and Eucharistic exposition hours. The schedule that's hardest to keep current is the one parishioners most need to be right.
Sacrament tracking the DRE can actually read
Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation, RCIA, and marriage prep tracked per candidate: which class they're in, what's outstanding, where the cohort sits before the Easter Vigil. Records the parish keeps for life, in a database the parish owns.
Saint of the day and the daily lectionary
Today's saint, the day's first reading, psalm, and Gospel pulled from the lectionary, with the season's feast days and solemnities marked. A morning reason to open the app that isn't another notification stream.
Parish registration and ministries
New parishioners register in-app, existing households update their information, and ministries (Knights of Columbus, St. Vincent de Paul, lectors, EMHCs, choir, faith formation) list, recruit, and schedule from one directory the office controls.
Second collections and offertory in your processor
Weekly offertory plus the second collection (building fund, Peter's Pence, mission appeals, the diocesan annual appeal) with the right fund labeled for the right Sunday. Gifts settle through your processor to the parish's bank. Rehost never touches the money.
$250/mo per campus. Built and run for you.
A custom catholic church app, in your branding, on an App Store account in your name, with the code in your repo. Multi-campus stays linear: three campuses is $750/mo, five is $1,250/mo, no separate tier. Your staff never logs into a dashboard.
What pastors and parish staff ask first.
Can the app handle the liturgical calendar, not just a weekly Mass time?
Yes, that's the point of building custom. The app follows the liturgical year: Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time, Lent, the Triduum, Easter, with the right season and the moving feasts and holy days of obligation. When Holy Week adds Masses and penance services, we update the schedule. It isn't a single recurring calendar event.
We track baptisms, Confirmation, and RCIA. Where does that data live?
In a database the parish owns, not a vendor's platform. Sacrament records and prep tracking (First Communion classes, Confirmation tracks, RCIA cohorts, marriage prep) are the kind of records a parish keeps for life and sometimes reports to the diocese. You can export them whenever you ask, and if you ever leave Rehost they stay yours.
How is this different from a templated Catholic app?
A template gives twenty thousand parishes the same shell with different logos. Rehost builds your parish a custom app, on an App Store account in the parish's name, with the code in a repo the parish owns. The Mass schedule, the sacrament tracking, the saint-of-the-day flow are built for how your parish actually runs, not selected from a checkbox.
Does our parish secretary have to learn a content system?
No. Nobody on staff logs into a dashboard or CMS. When a Mass time changes, the bulletin needs a push, or the confession schedule shifts for Lent, your secretary messages our team and we make the change. Operating the app is our job, not another duty added to the office.
Who owns the giving and the parishioner data if we cancel?
The parish, fully. Offertory and second collections route through your own processor to the parish's bank; we integrate the rails and never hold the money. Parishioner records, registration data, and sacrament history sit in databases the parish owns. Cancel and you keep the App Store account, the domain, the repo, and the data. It's a lease, not a lock-in.