For pastors & parish staff
Bring PrayerTrain to your parish.
A free, Catholic-rooted way to coordinate sustained prayer for families in your community. No signup, no contract, no parish-staff overhead.
What it is
PrayerTrain helps a family coordinate sustained prayer when someone they love is sick, struggling, or dying. Parishioners sign up for 30-minute prayer slots covering hours, days, or weeks. The platform sends gentle daily reminders, surfaces the prayer text or novena structure, and gathers a spiritual-bouquet PDF the family can keep. Built by Catholics, for Catholic prayer — novenas, rosaries, chaplets, litanies — never machine-translated, never paywalled.
What it costs
Nothing. PrayerTrain is a free ministry of Lantern Harbor LLC. No ads, no upsells, no premium tier. Parishes that adopt the widget pay nothing now and will never be charged.
Embed the widget on your parish website
Once a parishioner has created a public prayer train, the embed widget shows live progress on your website. Visitors can sign up for prayer slots directly from your page.
<iframe
src="https://prayertrains.com/api/widget/[SLUG]"
width="400"
height="320"
frameborder="0"
loading="lazy"
title="PrayerTrain"
></iframe>Replace [SLUG] with the prayer-train's slug from its URL.
Three steps:
- Find any prayer train at /browse and copy its slug from the URL (e.g., /p/spina-family-dlmm → slug is spina-family-dlmm).
- Paste the snippet above into your parish website where you want the card to appear. Most CMSes accept an HTML embed block.
- Save and publish. The widget renders in the train's language automatically.
Bulletin / homily talking points
If you'd like to introduce PrayerTrain to your parishioners, here are starting points pastors have found useful:
- ·It is a free Catholic tool — built by Catholics, rooted in the Church's actual prayer tradition (novenas, the rosary, the chaplet of Divine Mercy, the Memorare).
- ·It addresses a real pastoral pain: families who say 'we don't know how to pray for our loved one' or 'we don't want to bother people.' PrayerTrain gives them coordination without imposition.
- ·Parishioners commit to 30-minute slots — not open-ended 'pray when you can.' The discipline of the time creates real spiritual fruit and prevents the diffusion-of-responsibility problem.
- ·At the end of the prayer window, the family receives a spiritual-bouquet PDF listing every prayer warrior by name. It's a keepsake that often becomes part of the family's spiritual history.
- ·The parish has no administrative burden. Parishioners create and run their own prayer trains. The parish simply makes the tool known.
Common questions
Is the prayer content Catholic?
Yes — every prayer text is sourced from approved Catholic publishers: USCCB Spanish, CNBB Brazilian, CBCP Filipino, KEP Polish, Vatican.va, and the standard published novena collections (Pauline Books & Media, Editorial Verbo Divino, etc.). No machine translation of prayer text.
Do parishioners need an account?
Only to create a prayer train. To commit to a prayer slot, no account is needed — anyone with the link can sign up for a slot in seconds.
What languages are supported?
English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Filipino (Tagalog), and Polish. Each prayer train is created in the organizer's language; the widget, reminders, and printable bouquet all match. Additional languages can be added as we identify Catholic-bilingual reviewers.
Will you contact our parishioners?
No. We send daily prayer reminders to people who have explicitly signed up for a specific prayer slot. We never market to your parish, never sell or share data, and have no newsletter or follow-up funnel.
Is this connected to my diocese?
No. PrayerTrain is an independent Catholic ministry, not affiliated with any diocese. Bishops or clergy who want to inquire about the tool are welcome to email the founder directly.
What if a prayer warrior signs up but doesn't pray?
PrayerTrain doesn't audit prayer. The platform sends gentle daily reminders; what happens between God and the warrior is private. The spiritual-bouquet PDF at the end lists everyone who signed up — the offering itself is what's recorded.
Ready to share with your parish?
Two ways to start: create a prayer train for someone in your community, or browse existing public trains and share the link.