For Christian churches, the liturgical year is the framework around which every Sunday, every season, every appeal is organised. Advent through Christ the King; Easter as the year's peak; the autumn stewardship campaign as its quiet financial spine — pre-loaded and observed.
The Christian year
Western Christian calendar (Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Reformed all share most of it). Pre-drafted seasonal appeals appear three weeks ahead of each season's opening. Easter and Christ the King in gold.
Eastern Orthodox parishes use a separate Julian-based calendar (Pascha via Julian computation; Apostles' Fast and Dormition Fast observed). Configure per parish at signup.
How the calendar works in the platform
Liturgical-awareness is not a toggle in the settings panel. It runs through every layer.
Every contributor receipt, every appeal end-date, every recurring schedule — labelled with its liturgical Sunday ("Sixth Sunday of Easter") alongside the Gregorian date.
The dashboard hero shows today's liturgical color (purple in Advent and Lent, white in Eastertide and Christmas, red on Pentecost, gold on high feast days). Bulletin templates auto-tint accordingly.
Three weeks before Advent, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, Stewardship Season, Christ the King — a draft appeal appears in the dashboard with pastoral copy, a suggested goal, and a ready-to-print bulletin insert.
The October-November pledge campaign auto-drafts in September with pledge-card templates, sermon-series ties, and year-end giving statement scheduling.
Set the next four weeks of preaching topics. The platform pre-drafts giving asks for each week's bulletin, Sunday email, and post-service follow-up — each tied to that week's theme.
Automated comms respect Sunday-morning worship windows. Email blasts pause during Sunday service hours in the contributor's local timezone — they shouldn't get a fundraising email during the sermon.