For Catholic parishes
Formation is the free part of True Light Digital: essays, templates and guides for Catholic parish communications, written from inside parish life and organized as four practices rather than four topics. Start with whichever name is closest to the thing you're already wondering about.
The Communications Champion
Every parish communication system that lasts has a named person at its center, supported and replaceable. Most parishes have none of those three. Here's how to fix it.
Rhythm and Restraint
A parish's communications rise and fall with the liturgical year. Here's how to breathe with the Church instead of gasping against her.
Invitation and Patience
Parishes change slowly, through relationship, by invitation. Here's how to help a parish change well without breaking the people you're trying to serve.
Guardrails and Discernment
Every parish post is speech on behalf of the Body of Christ, and the most important skill is the pause before speech. Here's how to hold that discipline.
Each pathway below gathers the pieces and templates most useful to one role: the priest, the parish secretary, the communications volunteer, the pastoral council.
The artifact that converts a parish change idea into a structured proposal. It is designed to be filled in collaboratively, after the "What Already Works" audit (W3) has been completed, and before any change conversation becomes public.
For use in the days before you commission a Communications Champion in your parish. Read slowly, perhaps more than once.
A single-page template the curator customizes for her parish and hands to each originator (SVP lead, youth minister, music director, catechist, and so on). Pinned above the originator's desk. Referred to every time she has something to submit.
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