Your parish's own prayer book, always in reach.
Give your people the prayers and the sources of the faith without sending them off to a dozen websites. A full online prayer book and a parish-branded Orthodox library live right in Symphonia, beautifully readable and searchable, so the Church's own words are always a tap away.
A parishioner searching for the Trisagion at 11 p.m..
They end up on a stranger's site, unsure if the words are even right, next to an ad for something they'd rather not see. The Church has the most beautiful words ever written, and too often our people can't find them. Symphonia gives your parish its own prayer book and library, in your parish's name, so the faithful pray from the Church's own words, not whatever a search engine served up.
Made to be read, and prayed.
A calm reading surface with the type, light, and print controls the words deserve, on the parish site or in your people's pocket.
The whole treasury of the Church.
A parish library and a book store.
The Parish Library is part of every Symphonia plan. It is a catalog of the books your parish owns, with a desk for lending them. It also has a book store, where the parish buys licensed digital copies that parishioners read in Synaxis, the member app.
What the library and the book store do.
Woven through parish life.
In Synaxis
The prayer book, a daily reading plan, and the reference library, in every member's pocket.
On your public website
A pray section on your own site, so a searching soul finds your parish and the right words at once.
It knows the day
The prayers and readings for a feast surface with the day, computed by the Living Typikon.
The honest answers.
Every prayer and liturgical text is served verbatim, never altered by a word. The Church’s own language, exactly as it is prayed.
Trusted public-domain translations, such as the Hapgood Service Book, so the text is faithful and freely given, with attribution.
Yes. The prayer book and library aren't a link to somewhere else. They wear your parish's own identity, right inside Symphonia.
On your public website and in Synaxis, so the prayers are with your people wherever they are, at home or on the bus.
Yes. Enter an ISBN and Symphonia fills in the title, author, and cover. Each copy gets a barcode, and you can print barcode labels, spine labels, and bookplates. A lending desk checks books out and in. Holds, reading lists, and reports are part of the same library, and parishioners browse and reserve books in Synaxis.
The parish buys licensed digital copies of a title for its library. Each copy is read by one person at a time, in a protected reader inside Synaxis. Free public-domain Orthodox titles are in the store from day one, and titles from publishers are added as agreements are signed. Free titles can be added today. Buying paid titles and sponsoring a copy open soon.
No. The Parish Library is part of every plan, with no add-on fee. The book store has no monthly fee either. The parish pays for the paid titles it buys, and free titles cost nothing.
No. The book store is part of the parish library and supplies digital copies for parishioners to read. Symphonia Store is the add-on for selling candles, icons, and printed books at the parish.
Give your people the Church's own words.
See your parish's own prayer book and library, in your parish's name, in a short walkthrough.