What Antiphon does

Antiphon reads the liturgical calendar and knows what this Sunday is — the feast, the season, the readings and the vestment colour. Covers bind to that data rather than having it typed in.

What it saves you You stop looking up the readings and the proper name of the Sunday, and you stop shipping a bulletin that says the wrong one.

• Feast, season and cycle resolved per date
• Mass readings fetched automatically
• Violet, white, red, rose and green follow the season

Drag, drop, snap and align on a real page at real print dimensions. Text, images, shapes and rules go where you put them, and stay there.

What it saves you The person making the bulletin stops fighting a text box that reflows the whole document when an announcement runs two lines long.

• Snapping guides and alignment
• Multi-page spreads
• Margin and bleed guides for the printer

Complete bulletin designs — framed plates, small-caps liturgical headings, dominant cover imagery and a palette that follows the season — rather than a blank page with a border.

What it saves you A parish with nobody on staff who designs gets a bulletin that looks designed, on the first attempt.

• Several complete multi-page designs
• Save your own as a parish template
• Your house colours applied across a design

For the feast being printed, Antiphon proposes public-domain artwork from museum collections — with the painting, the painter and the holding institution travelling with the image.

What it saves you You get a cover that is about this Sunday, without a stock-photo subscription and without an attribution problem.

• Matched to the feast and the Gospel
• Attribution line composed for you
• Public domain, credited to the museum

Send the finished edition to the pastor for review, then render it to a PDF at print dimensions with the page geometry the printer expects.

What it saves you No exporting to a word processor, no “can you send it as a PDF”, and nobody discovers a mistake after four hundred copies are folded.

• Review requests by email, with sign-off
• True page size and margins, with bleed and safe-area guides
• Digital edition from the same file

Every parish gets a public site — Mass times, sacraments, clergy, calendar, Mass intentions and an archive of past bulletins — on its own parish subdomain.

What it saves you The bulletin and the website stop disagreeing about when confessions are, because they are drawing on the same record.

• Your own parish subdomain
• Bulletin archive published automatically
• Contact form that reaches the office

Compose in a real editor, choose who it goes to — everyone, or just the choir, the RCIA candidates, the finance council — and send it now or schedule it. The weekly newsletter can build itself from the week you have already entered.

What it saves you The announcement reaches the people who were not at Mass, without a spreadsheet of addresses and a personal Gmail account in the middle of it.

• Audience groups per ministry
• Send now, schedule, or recur weekly
• Sent in the parish’s name, replies going to the office

Opens, clicks, bounces and unsubscribes come back from the mail provider and land on the sent report. Addresses that hard-bounce are suppressed so you stop mailing them.

What it saves you You find out whether anybody read it — and you stop quietly damaging the parish’s sending reputation on dead addresses.

• Opens, clicks, bounces per send
• Automatic suppression of bad addresses
• A preferences page, so people pick what they get

The parish calendar is published as a live standard feed the office can subscribe to, and every event on the public calendar carries a one-tap add to Google, Outlook or Apple.

What it saves you The calendar in the office and the calendar on a parishioner’s phone stop being two different calendars that disagree by a week.

• A standard ICS feed, not a one-off export
• One-tap add on every public event
• Feed subscribers get changes automatically

Parishioners give from the parish website by card. The money moves into the parish’s own connected account — it does not sit with us on the way.

What it saves you Online giving without a second vendor, a second login, or a month’s wait to find out where the money went.

• Give from the public parish site
• Funds land in the parish’s own account
• Antiphon takes no cut of a donation

Invite staff and volunteers by email with a role: Admin, Editor or Viewer. One login can belong to several parishes.

What it saves you The bulletin stops being one person’s password, and stops stopping when that person is on holiday.

• Invitations by email, valid 14 days
• Admin, Editor and Viewer roles
• One account across several parishes

Local businesses bid for space on the back page. Their sponsorships cover printing and delivery, and the surplus is shared.

What it saves you Physical printing comes off the parish budget entirely, and in a good month it puts money back on.

• Free signup, design and digital publishing
• Printing and delivery funded by sponsors
• The surplus is shared with the parish

Every advertisement is reviewed by the parish before it is printed. Approve it, reject it, or block an advertiser outright.

What it saves you Nothing appears beside your Mass times that you did not agree to — which is the only basis on which ad-funded printing is acceptable at all.

• Review queue for every creative
• Block advertisers or whole categories
• Auto-approve Catholic non-profits, if you want