Purpose-led navigation
Create direct routes for worship, hospitality, community life, vocation, resources and support.
Community & Faith · Information architecture · Web design · WordPress development
The Benedictine Monks
A calm, structured digital home bringing worship, community life, hospitality, donations and an extensive resource library together.
The opportunity
Creating a clear digital home for a community with many audiences and responsibilities.
Holy Cross Abbey serves people locally and much further afield. Some visitors arrive to join prayer or watch the live webcam; others want to learn about hospitality, vocation or the community’s history. The site also supports homilies, biblical readings, prayer requests, donations, news and an online shop.
The challenge was to organise that breadth without losing the sense of welcome and reflection at the heart of the community.
Strategy
Build the experience around the different reasons people connect with Holy Cross Abbey.
Worship and resources
Bring the live webcam, prayer times, homilies and biblical readings into an accessible content structure.
Sustainable publishing
Use repeatable WordPress content patterns so the community can maintain news, readings and resources over time.
See the work
A digital home for worship, welcome and community life.
The website brings prayer, live worship, hospitality, vocation, giving, ecommerce and an extensive resource library into one calm and clearly structured WordPress experience.
The Benedictine Monks website - a content-rich platform for the community at Holy Cross Abbey, Rostrevor.
The outcome
A considered platform supporting worship, welcome and the life of the Abbey.
The completed website provides a single, structured home for the many ways people connect with the Benedictine Community.
Live worship, prayer resources, hospitality, vocation, giving and ecommerce sit within a consistent experience, supported by a flexible publishing system for the community’s ongoing work.
Live worship made accessible through the webcam
Clear routes to prayer, hospitality and vocation
Shop, donations and community content connected
Flexible publishing for homilies, readings and news