Weekly bulletins · Malaysian parishes

Stop making the bulletin in Word.

No more PowerPoint. No more nudging text boxes until it fits. Type this week’s details into one form and press Publish — the printed page, the WhatsApp image and a proper mobile web page all come out together, laid out for you.

0layout work3outputs, one publish1page, guaranteed
Actual output ↓
A real bulletin produced by Parish Bell: the parish crest and masthead, the week's dates, and the start of the seven-day mass schedule and numbered announcements.
For the people reading it

On a phone, it reads like a website — not a PDF.

Nobody enjoys pinching and dragging around an A4 PDF on a small screen. The same bulletin is also a real web page: text at a comfortable size, tappable phone numbers and links, and the whole week readable with one thumb.

  • Readable without zooming, at any age
  • Switch language with one tap
  • PDF and image still one tap away, for whoever wants them
  • Send one link — it always shows the current week
The same bulletin viewed on a phone: the parish crest and photo, the week's dates, an English/Chinese language toggle, PDF and image download links, and the mass schedule in large tappable cards.
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Why parishes move

The bulletin shouldn’t live in a document file.

In Word or PowerPoint
  • The master file lives on one volunteer's laptop.
  • Add one announcement and the text boxes shift.
  • Fonts change when someone opens it on another computer.
  • The PDF never quite matches what was on screen.
  • Getting it to WhatsApp means screenshotting it.
  • Last year's copies are in a folder somewhere — if at all.
In Parish Bell
  • Opens in any browser. Nothing to install or pass around.
  • You fill in a form — the layout cannot shift.
  • Same typeface, same spacing, every single week.
  • Page, image and web version are made together, from one source.
  • The WhatsApp image is simply one of the outputs.
  • Every past week is kept, dated and searchable.

One publish. Three things out.

Never three separate jobs
01For the porch

A4 PDF

Print-ready and greyscale-safe, with body text kept large enough for older readers. Straight to the parish photocopier.

02For the group

WhatsApp image

A sharp PNG sized so the bulletin shows up readable in the chat, rather than as a file nobody opens.

03For the phone

Web page + QR

Your own address, always showing this week, with every past week archived behind it.

Nothing gets lost

Every week you have ever published, still there.

No hunting through a shared drive for the copy from three Sundays ago — or asking the volunteer who made it.

The bulletin archive on a phone, listing every past bulletin grouped by year with its date and liturgical title.
Archive

Trace back any past bulletin

Every bulletin is kept, dated and grouped by year — with its own permanent link. Last Christmas, or the same week last year, is two taps away.

Searching the bulletins for 'baptism' on a phone: three bulletins match, each showing the date, the Sunday, and the announcement that matched.
Search

Find any detail in seconds

Search across announcements, mass times, the priest's message and mass intentions, in every week you have published. It tells you which bulletin matched, and where.

The hard part, handled

A whole week of Masses, set like a timetable.

Seven days, five languages, feast days and one-off devotions. The liturgical calendar fills in the celebrations as an editable draft, and your parish defines its own language codes — so the legend matches how your community actually names them.

EEnglishCChineseTTamilBMBahasa MalaysiaMMandarin
26SUN

17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

8.00aE9.45aC11.30aT
27MON
7.00aE
28TUE
7.00aE
29WED
7.00aE
30THU

Flag Raising · Feast Volunteers' Mass

6.30p7.00pE
31FRI
10.00aE3.00pBM5.00pT7.00pE9.00pM
1SAT
10.00aE3.00pBM5.00pT7.00pE9.00pM
2SUN

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

8.00aT10.00aE12.00pM3.00pBM5.00pT
↑ A real week at the Minor Basilica of St. Anne
How the week goes

Three steps, in bulletin order.

01

Start from last week

A weekly bulletin is roughly 80% identical to the one before it. Open last week's, change what moved, and you are most of the way done.

02

Fill in what changed

Mass times, announcements, intentions, collections. Bold and italic are the only formatting — the template owns everything else.

03

Press Publish

All three outputs are produced together and go live at the same moment. Print it, send it, share the link.

The weekly reality

Most of next Sunday is already written.

The work in a bulletin isn’t writing — it’s re-typing things that were already true last week. So the repetitive parts do themselves.

Announcements carry over

Give one a “run until” date. It appears every week until it expires, then drops off by itself.

Wedding banns run themselves

Enter the couple and the first Sunday once. All three announcements print on the right weeks, then stop.

Feast days arrive filled in

The liturgical calendar drafts the week's celebrations — correct it whenever your parish differs.

No surprises at the printer

It fits on one page. Guaranteed.

You never adjust the layout — the template owns the design, so the only question left is whether it fits. A meter fills as you type and answers it before you publish. When it overflows it names what is making it long, instead of silently shrinking the text to unreadable.

It’s trustworthy for one reason: the preview on screen and the printed PDF come out of the same engine. What fits on screen is what fits on paper.

FitsPublish
Nearly fullCareful
Too longBlocked
Multilingual parishes

One bulletin, in your community’s languages.

Translate an announcement in one click, then read it over and approve it. Nothing reaches your parishioners until a person has said yes.

EN

Mass Schedule

English
ZH

弥撒时间表

简体中文
BM

JADUAL MISA

Bahasa Malaysia
TA

திருப்பலி நேரங்கள்

தமிழ்

Section headings and weekday names are hand-translated once, not machine translated every week — so the fixed parts of the page are always right.

Bring this to your parish.

Tell us how many Masses, which languages, and who prepares the bulletin — we’ll set it up and walk your volunteer through their first week.