Qui sumus
Memento is Mass intention software for Catholic parishes. It takes requests by phone, at the desk or from a parish website, keeps the canon 958 register, and prints the bulletin list, the sacristy sheet and the Mass cards from the same entries. It is built by Greetyr, a two person company.
For most of a thousand years, the Church was where the work got done. The universities at Bologna, Paris and Oxford grew out of cathedral and monastic schools. The calendar on your phone is the one Gregory XIII promulgated in 1582, computed by Christopher Clavius, a Jesuit mathematician. An Augustinian friar counting pea plants in a monastery garden at Brno founded genetics. Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian priest, proposed that the universe began from a single point and turned out to be right. The Holy See still runs an observatory.
Somewhere after that, the software a parish actually uses stopped being made with any of that care. The register of Masses is a book canon law requires, and in most parishes it is kept across a notebook, a spreadsheet and somebody’s memory, with all three out of step by Friday. The office is not short of diligence. It is short of tools.
We wanted to hand the Church something as carefully made as the things it used to make, so a pastor can spend his week shepherding rather than reconciling lists.
Before anything was printed, the record was kept by hand, one entry at a time.
Unknown miniaturist, Jean Miélot at His Desk, 15th century
Painted on the wall of the Apostolic Palace, where the Church kept its library.
Raphael, The School of Athens, 1511
He computed the calendar reform of 1582. It is the calendar on your phone.
Francesco Villamena, Christopher Clavius, 1606
Copernicus was a canon of the cathedral chapter at Frombork while he worked.
Jan Matejko, Astronomer Copernicus, Conversation with God, 1872
An Augustinian friar, counting pea plants in a monastery garden in Brno.
Photographer unknown, Gregor Mendel, c. 1880
Elias Nolin
Founder, Greetyr
We wanted to have a Mass said, and there was no easy way to do it.
The parish office keeps normal hours. So do our jobs. Stopping by during the week was never going to happen, and the week always got away from us. We meant to ask. We never did.
That is a small thing and also not a small thing. Someone wanted a Mass offered for their mother and it did not happen, because the only way to ask was to be standing in a particular room between nine and four.
A family should be able to ask. A parish should be able to say yes without it costing anyone an afternoon.
Memento gives a parish one place to take intentions, by phone, at the desk, or from its own website, and one schedule everyone in the office can see. The bulletin list, the sacristy sheet and the register come out of the same entries.
The office stops keeping a notebook, a spreadsheet and a memory in sync. The family gets a confirmation. Nobody has to remember who was told what.
We do not touch the offering. It goes to the parish directly, and we never take a portion of it. There is no cart and no checkout, because an intention is not a purchase and should never look like one.
An intention given with no offering at all is recorded exactly like any other.
Memento is built by Greetyr and is revolutionizing software for parishes. We are a small but dedicated team, and are most interested in serving your parish’s needs. Please do not hesitate to reach out.
Founder & CEO
Elias grew up in church life across many denominations, from small rural congregations to large urban parishes, and started Greetyr to put modern tools in the hands of churches without asking them to change what they are.
Memento began with a problem he had himself: wanting a Mass said, and finding no way to ask that fitted around a working week.
Co-Founder & CTO
Kyle is a convert and has spent more than twenty years as a software developer, on the view that the best software never calls attention to itself and simply helps people.
He is an instituted acolyte at his parish, serving the liturgy directly, and is married with two children. He knows the sacristy side of this as well as the code.