April 16, 2020

Parish Giving Blog Your weekly resource for tools, tips, and ideas on increasing

engagement and stewardship at your Parish.

Department of Stewardship & Development

Happy Easter Everyone! The Lord has Risen! Alleluia! Alleluia!

It has been a hard time for everyone across our great nation. Parents work to provide for their family while at the same time home schooling their children, companies are struggling, and of course, our Parishes are struggling with decreased giving.

But this is the Easter Season it is not a time to be negative, but to be joyful and look to the future with hope and optimism!

That is why the Office of Stewardship and Development has created this blog for Pastors and Parish staff to use help with engagement and stewardship at a given Parish in any way it can.

This week we provide a “How to…” on displaying Facebook live events on your website. Many of you are already doing a great job at showing your Mass Live via Facebook. Now let’s try to get Mass and other events shown on our parish website!

Prayers and blessings to your Parish family and remember to stay active!

How to Display a Facebook Live Event on Your Website These instructions are written for use on an eCatholic website but can be modified and used on any website. For this example, we have used a Mass from St. Mary Cathedral.

Step 1 Open the page on your website where you will post the Facebook livestream video. If you don’t already have a page created, then create a new page on your website where you will display the Facebook video.

Step 2 Open Facebook and search for the St. Mary Cathedral Facebook page (or the Facebook page from which you want to stream). For this to work, the livestream must already be active on Facebook:

Step 3Look for the 3 dots also called ellipsis in the top right corner of the feed. Click the ellipsis.

Click ellipsis

Step 4 Select the embed option from the dropdown menu

Select Embed option

Step 5 Highlight and copy the embed code.

Step 6 Open the webpage where you will post the video. Click the +Add Content option in the bottom left side corner

Step 7 Click the Social & Embed option on left side menu.

Step 8 Click the < > Embed buttton

Step 8 Drag the < > Embed buttton on to the web page.

Drag the < > Embed button on to the webpage

Step 9 The source code window will open.

Source code window

Step 10 Paste the embed code in the source code window. Then click the Save button.

Paste the embed code here

Click the Save button

Step 11 The video will then appear on the webpage.

Step 12 Click the Title option to edit the text.

Click the Title button

Step 13 Type in your new title.

Type in your new title

Step 14 Click the Publish button in the bottom right hand side to publish your page.

Step 15 The video is now available on your website.