Unlock Verbum for Your Whole Parish–Free
Catholic parishes have been forced by the pandemic to stop public Masses. The transition to digital church activities has been particularly difficult for Catholics, since it has meant lack of access to many of the sacraments. But with a robust online library from Verbum, your parishioners can stay close to the daily readings of the Church at home. Verbum is providing free access to our software to every Catholic parish in the world.
Enjoy these Catholic Bibles and commentaries included with each license:
- Verbum Basic: This free version of Verbum puts insights from across all of Scripture and Tradition—and dozens of books—right at your fingertips. Study the daily lectionary readings, customize a reading plan for any resource in your library, take notes and highlight, consult devotionals and Church documents, and more—all with the help of intuitive, interactive tools.
Step 1: Find or Create Your Parish Group for Free
Check to see if your parish already has a Faithlife group. If not, create one for your parish now.
Find your parish group OR create a new group
If you create a new group for your parish, be sure to set your privacy level to “private” during your group set-up so that other parishioners can find your group and request to join.
If you already have a group, make sure that the privacy levels are at “private” by navigating to Settings > Group Settings in the sidebar of your group page and looking under the Privacy and Safety heading for your group.
Note: If you are a layperson looking for a solution for your parish, send this page to your priest, deacon, or parish staff so they can enroll your parish in this program and invite the whole congregation. Or
Step 2: Request Licenses for Your Parishioners
After completing Step 1, order Verbum Basic below. Order the quantity for the number of families in your parish (up to 1000).
Verbum 9 Basic
Price: FREE
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Step 3: Invite Your Parishioners
How to Invite
- Invite directly from your parish group. From faithlife.com, navigate to your parish’s group. Click Invite in the top right, then Add contacts to upload the email addresses of your parishioners and clergy. Personalize your message so your parishioners and clergy know what to do next. We recommend telling your parishioners to click the link in the email to create a Faithlife account (if they don't have one already) in order to join the group.
- Send them an email with a link to your group. To do this, copy the link for your parish’s group from your browser window and link to this in your parish’s email communication with parishioners.
Step 4: Study and Pray
Now that you have a Faithlife group for your parishioners, the copies of Verbum Basic you ordered will be automatically unlocked to every parishioner who joined the group. You can also manually unlock Verbum Basic for everyone. If you’re having trouble, give us a call at (800)-875-6467. We’re happy to help.
Then everyone in the parish can get started studying and praying with Catholic Daily Readings.
Choose or Create a Group to Share This Resource
This book will be distributed through Faithlife groups. After you select your group and check out, we’ll email you further instructions.
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