St. Thérèse asked to spend her heaven doing good upon the earth. This is what a parish needs to hand her to its people.
Bulletin blurbs in English and Spanish, three sentences for the ambo, a parish email, a printable insert and a QR poster, and a four-week checklist so the launch does not depend on anyone remembering it. Take what you need. Nothing here asks you to sign anything.
Worth knowing before you announce it, so the announcement is true.
Little Way is a Catholic prayer app built on the spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. It carries a morning offering to hand over the day before it begins, an interactive rosary, preparation for confession, and a nightly examen that names one small act of virtue for the next day.
It also holds a chapel of intercession. A person can leave an intention there, and can pray for the intentions others have left, most of them strangers. That is the part parishes tend to care about: it turns a phone into a place where someone prays for a person they will never meet.
The app asks, reminds, and then gets out of the way. It does not pray on anyone's behalf, and it never claims to. The praying is done by the person.
Paste these as they are. The Spanish is written, not machine-translated.
For a crowded bulletin, or a single column inch.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux promised to spend her heaven doing good upon the earth. Little Way is a Catholic prayer app built on her teaching: a morning offering, an interactive rosary, a nightly examen, and a chapel where parishioners pray for one another's intentions. Available for iPhone and Android at littleway.app.
When you have a half page and want the whole idea.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux taught that small things done with great love are the ordinary road to holiness. Little Way is a Catholic prayer app built on that teaching. It carries a morning offering to hand over the day before it begins, an interactive rosary, preparation for confession, and a nightly examen that names one small act of virtue for tomorrow. It also holds a chapel of intercession, where you can leave an intention and pray for the intentions of others, most of them strangers. Begin with the daily rhythm, and pray for someone you will never meet. Available for iPhone and Android at littleway.app.
Para un boletín apretado, o una sola columna.
Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús prometió pasar su cielo haciendo el bien en la tierra. Little Way es una aplicación católica de oración fundada en su enseñanza: el ofrecimiento de la mañana, el rosario, el examen de conciencia por la noche y una capilla donde los feligreses rezan por las intenciones de los demás. Disponible para iPhone y Android en littleway.app.
Cuando hay media página y se quiere la idea completa.
Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús enseñó que las cosas pequeñas hechas con mucho amor son el camino ordinario hacia la santidad. Little Way es una aplicación católica de oración fundada en esa enseñanza. Contiene el ofrecimiento de la mañana para entregar el día antes de que comience, un rosario interactivo, la preparación para la confesión y un examen de conciencia que cada noche señala un pequeño acto de virtud para el día siguiente. También contiene una capilla de intercesión, donde usted puede dejar una intención y rezar por las intenciones de otros, casi todos desconocidos. Comience con el ritmo diario y rece por alguien a quien nunca conocerá. Disponible para iPhone y Android en littleway.app.
Short enough to read after the closing prayer without losing the room.
Three sentences, read after the closing prayer.
This week our parish is offering something small. Little Way is a Catholic prayer app built on the spirituality of St. Thérèse: a morning offering, a nightly examen, and a chapel where you can pray for the intentions of people you will never meet. If you would like to pray with it, the code is in this week's bulletin.
Tres frases, para leer después de la oración final.
Esta semana nuestra parroquia les ofrece algo sencillo. Little Way es una aplicación católica de oración fundada en la espiritualidad de Santa Teresita: el ofrecimiento de la mañana, el examen de conciencia por la noche y una capilla donde usted puede rezar por las intenciones de personas a quienes nunca conocerá. Si desea rezar con ella, el código está en el boletín de esta semana.
A letter rather than a notice. Sign it with a real name.
Subject line: A small way to pray this week
Dear friends, St. Thérèse of Lisieux said that her way to heaven was very small: little things done with great love, offered as they came. She never left her convent, and she asked to spend her heaven doing good upon the earth. Our parish is pointing you toward Little Way, a Catholic prayer app built on that spirituality. It carries a morning offering, an interactive rosary, preparation for confession, and a nightly examen that names one small act of virtue for the next day. It also holds a chapel of intercession. You can leave an intention there, and you can pray for the intentions others have left, most of them strangers to you. That second part is the reason we are sending this. Praying for someone you will never meet is one of the oldest things Catholics do, and it is easy to let it fall out of a week. You can find it at littleway.app, on iPhone and Android. In Christ, [Your name]
Asunto: Una manera pequeña de rezar esta semana
Queridos hermanos: Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús decía que su camino al cielo era muy pequeño: cosas pequeñas hechas con mucho amor, ofrecidas según llegaban. Nunca salió de su convento, y pidió pasar su cielo haciendo el bien en la tierra. Nuestra parroquia les recomienda Little Way, una aplicación católica de oración fundada en esa espiritualidad. Contiene el ofrecimiento de la mañana, un rosario interactivo, la preparación para la confesión y un examen de conciencia que cada noche señala un pequeño acto de virtud para el día siguiente. También contiene una capilla de intercesión. Allí puede dejar una intención, y puede rezar por las intenciones que otros han dejado, casi todos desconocidos para usted. Esa segunda parte es la razón por la que les escribimos. Rezar por alguien a quien nunca conocerá es una de las cosas más antiguas que hacemos los católicos, y es fácil que se pierda en el correr de la semana. La encontrará en littleway.app, para iPhone y Android. En Cristo, [Su nombre]
Both print cleanly in black and white, which is what most parish copiers actually do.
A half-page insert with the same words as the 100-word blurb, laid out to fold into a bulletin or stack in the narthex. Two to a page.
Download the insertA single letter-size poster for a bulletin board, a narthex table, or the parish hall. The code opens the app on whichever phone scans it.
Download the posterFour weeks, about twenty minutes of staff time in total. The repetition is the whole method: most parishioners are travelling, sick, or at a different Mass on any given Sunday.
Run the 50-word blurb in the bulletin. Nothing else. You are not asking for anything yet, only making the name familiar so it is not new on launch day.
Read the three-sentence pulpit announcement after the closing prayer at every Mass, including the Spanish ones. Run the 100-word blurb. Put the insert in the bulletin or stack it in the narthex, and post the QR poster where people wait. Send the parish email that afternoon, while the announcement is still in their ears.
Repeat the 50-word blurb in the bulletin each week. It costs a column inch and it reaches everyone who was away on launch Sunday, which is most of the parish.
Once a month, one sentence: a reminder that the chapel is there and that someone's intention is waiting. Tie it to whatever the parish is already praying for, and it stops sounding like an advertisement and starts sounding like the parish.
If you are a parishioner rather than staff, this is the part for you. Parish materials travel best when a parishioner hands them over, not when a developer emails them in.
Nothing is required of the parish. There is no licence to sign, no per-family fee, no account for your staff to administer, and no data we ask you for. Parishioners download the app themselves. The daily prayer and the chapel of intercession are open to everyone; an optional subscription supports the work and unlocks some extras, which is how the app is sustained.
No. Someone can open the app and pray the same day without an email address or a password. Intentions posted in the chapel carry a first name at most, and often not even that.
The prayers are the traditional ones: the rosary, the morning offering, an examination of conscience, an act of contrition, the St. Michael prayer. The spirituality is St. Thérèse's, drawn from her own writings. The app never presents itself as praying on anyone's behalf. It asks, reminds, and gets out of the way; the praying is done by the person.
One bulletin blurb is enough to start. The checklist on this page runs four weeks and takes about twenty minutes of staff time in total: paste a blurb, print an insert, read three sentences after Mass, and repeat the blurb for a few weeks so the people who were travelling still hear it.
Yes. Every blurb, the pulpit announcement, and the parish email on this page are written in Spanish as well as English. They are written rather than machine-translated, so they read the way a bulletin actually reads.
No, and this is deliberate. There is no parish dashboard, no roster, and no report of who prayed what. A parish that could see its members' prayer life would change that prayer life. What the parish gets is the announcement; what happens after belongs to the parishioner and God.
Carter Boatright, a Catholic convert and father in the Tampa Bay area, building independently rather than for a company. He can be reached at hello@littleway.app.
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