Answered from your own words.
Nothing invented.
Parovia answers calls and messages for funeral homes, schools, parishes, and dioceses, day and night.
Live here: Parovia's own assistant, answering only from its verified knowledge.
Ask Parovia yourself
Parovia's assistant
Question: Do you make things up?
Parovia's assistant: No — this is the heart of Parovia. It never invents anything. Every answer is bound to a fact your office has verified and approved: your Mass and confession times, your staff, your policies. When it doesn't have a verified answer, it doesn't guess — it says so plainly and connects you with a real person.
Question: What happens in an emergency?
Parovia's assistant: If someone is in immediate danger, please call 911.
Question: ¿Qué pasa si no sabe la respuesta?
Parovia's assistant: En el momento en que Parovia llega a algo que no puede responder, o a cualquier cosa delicada, lo dice con honestidad —«No tengo una respuesta verificada para eso; permítame comunicarlo con una persona»— y lo pasa a un miembro real de su oficina. Transmite lo que usted ya dijo, para que no tenga que repetirlo.
- Answers in English and Spanish, spoken aloud.
- Draws every answer only from what you've verified. Nothing else.
- Anything touching money, records or a child goes to a person, not the assistant.
- Your conversation records are kept for 13 months, then deleted. Sooner if you ask.
A baptism, a school year, a wedding, a funeral: someone has to answer the phone.
How Parovia works
Three things, in plain terms.
Answer
Parovia tells people what's true: times, tuition, registration, hours, directions, drawn only from your verified information, in English or Spanish. When it isn't certain, it says so and connects a person.
Handle
Parovia takes the request: a tour held for confirmation, a Mass intention, an absence, a complete inquiry, captured in full and waiting, organized, for your staff. No more half‑finished voicemails.
Act
Parovia does the work, with a person signing off. It prepares a request for your staff to enter in the system you already use, and anything touching money, records, or a child always waits for human approval.
All of it on your own phone and website.
Call it
Call or text Parovia's own line.
Pick up your phone and ask it what you'd ask a front desk. This is Parovia's real number, answered by its assistant from what Parovia has verified about itself.
(717) 276-8421Call (717) 276-8421Texting this number starts a conversation with Parovia's automated assistant. Msg & data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help. Terms · Privacy
Demo lines for funeral homes, schools, parishes and dioceses are coming.
Things to ask
- “What is Parovia?”
- “Where do your answers come from?”
- “What if it doesn't know the answer?”
- Ask it in Spanish“¿Qué pasa si no sabe la respuesta?”
Who it's for
One standard, whichever door you come through.
The first call, answered.
For funeral homes of every tradition: a first call at 2am is answered gently and written down, and the routine questions are answered from what your home verified.
See how Parovia serves a homeSchoolsThe school office, answered.
Admissions questions answered after hours and tour requests held in your staff's queue. A missed call is a lost enrollment.
See how Parovia serves a schoolParishesThe parish office, answered.
An office that's reached after hours, in English and Spanish, and an emergency Parovia recognizes goes to the contact you designate.
See how Parovia serves a parishDiocesesFor dioceses
Serving a whole diocese? For dioceses is its own conversation: one relationship, one standard, one safety discipline.
See how Parovia serves a dioceseTrust & Safety
Built to be trusted.
Parovia never invents anything
Every answer is bound to a source you've verified. Where it isn't certain, it refuses to guess and hands off to a person. It never produces Scripture, Mass times, or clergy on its own.
A person handles what matters
Money, personal records, and anything involving a minor always require human approval. Parovia prepares the work; your staff decides.
Children are protected
No one is ever signed up to work with children through Parovia. An adult asking to take on that kind of role is handed to the people who run your screening; a child asking to sign themselves up is told a parent or guardian has to do it, and a child who needs help reaches a person.
Your data stays yours
Records are handled with care (student records only ever by a person), and Parovia never sells your data.
Why Parovia exists
Parovia began as a mission: to help the people who serve in these essential roles serve their families and communities better, by taking the repetitive questions off their desk.
Every hour a funeral home, a school, or a parish spends repeating the visitation time, the tuition deadline, or the Mass schedule is an hour taken from the person in front of them.
And every caller who reaches voicemail is someone who needed an answer and did not get one.
I have taught high school, and I know what the front office of a school carries.
Parovia answers those questions today, in English and Spanish, using only what your own organization has told it, so your people are free for the work only they can do, and your families are attended to promptly.
Parovia serves funeral homes of every tradition, and the Catholic schools, parishes, and dioceses their families belong to.
When someone asks about money, a record, or anything involving a child, Parovia does not decide; a person on your staff does, every time.
Our pricing is public, on the pricing page.
Please feel free to reach out to me directly if you need any further information or assistance.
Joshua Carlson, founder
founder@askparovia.comSee Parovia answer your own questions.
The most convincing thing we can do is hand you the keyboard. Ask it what you'd ask, and watch where it draws the line.