Every language at one Mass.

A parish whose name says it is Catholic, such as Our Lady of Guadalupe, Parroquia San José or a 성당, starts with Mass as its word for the gathering, 天主 and 聖神 in Chinese and 하느님 in Korean; any other parish takes the Catholic words with one tap in Settings. Those words, with Father for its priests, go into the parish’s glossary, which both the speech engine and the translator use. The Catholic starter packs fill the rest:

Then add what is particular to your parish: your priests’ names, your parish and its patron and, if you caption in Chinese, the book names your Bible uses (若望福音 rather than 約翰福音), since Chinese captions otherwise follow the 和合本’s terms. About the glossary.

The homily is captioned like any speech, and so is everything else said aloud at Mass. The readings are different, and we want to be plain about them.

Voclyn’s Scripture lock shows a passage from a published Bible when it is named by chapter and verse and then read. The Bibles it can show are public-domain Bibles of the Protestant tradition: the Berean Standard Bible or the King James Version in English, the Reina-Valera 1909 in Spanish, the 개역한글 in Korean and the 和合本 in Chinese. Catholic readings come from other Bibles and lectionaries, such as the 思高 Bible in Chinese and the Korean bishops’ 성경, and Voclyn doesn’t show those.

At Mass a reading is usually announced by its book alone (“A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke”), and a book alone never brings up a verse card. So the readings are translated like the rest of the Mass, follow your glossary, and are labelled AI on every phone. If a homily names a chapter and verse and quotes it, readers in English, Spanish, Korean, Cantonese and Mandarin may see that verse from the Bibles above, with the Bible’s name on the card. How Scripture lock works.

At a Mass in English and Spanish, or Korean and English, the priest can move between languages, even mid-sentence, and Voclyn detects each phrase by itself. Each parishioner follows the whole Mass in their own language; anyone whose language is being spoken reads the words as said, marked Original. How language switching works.

On paid plans the same captions can go on a screen in two or three languages, or as a lower third, whole sentences only.

The US bishops’ guidance on language at a multicultural liturgy names the aim as intelligibility, so that the assembly can take part, and suggests proclaiming the Gospel in the language most of the assembly speaks, with a brief summary in the others. Captions on phones sit alongside whatever your parish decides; they don’t change what is proclaimed.

• Hymns and sung parts. One tap of Worship at the sound desk rests translation while the parish sings; phones show that it is worship, and lyrics aren’t translated.
• Intentions and parish news. If the Prayer of the Faithful names the sick or the dead and the parish would rather not caption it, a hold at the desk makes it a private moment: captions are hidden on every phone, and nothing is saved.
• What is kept. Service audio is never stored. A transcript is kept only if the room is set to keep it, for as long as the plan keeps transcripts.

Parishioners choose from 100+ languages to read, and Voclyn detects the language being spoken at the front, such as Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Polish, Portuguese or French. The listener page’s own buttons come in English, French, Spanish, Korean, Cantonese and Mandarin; in other languages the captions are translated and the buttons stay in English.

Catholic starter packs exist for Chinese, Korean and Spanish. Parishes worshipping in other languages add their own words, such as Thánh lễ for the Mass in Vietnamese, and the translator follows them. What each language can do.

• No Catholic Bible or lectionary on verse cards: readings at Mass are translated and labelled AI.
• Catholic starter packs cover Chinese, Korean and Spanish only.
• The listener page’s buttons are in English for languages other than English, French, Spanish, Korean, Cantonese and Mandarin.
• The AI voice and the big screen aren’t part of the Free plan.