How to Make Holy Week Social Media Posts Using WeCreate

Anyone who has ever worked or volunteered at a Catholic church during the Lent and Easter season knows that the church schedule, especially during Holy Week, is jam-packed with special events. With this in mind, we decided to save you a little time and create a guide to help you make the best social media posts possible for Holy Week using WeCreate, our library of digital Catholic content. 

Ready-Made Graphics

WeCreate has multiple professional-looking Holy Week graphics already optimized for social media and waiting to be used by you! Our professional in-house design team creates around 200 new WeCreate images every single month focusing on Catholic holidays, liturgical seasons, and every-day church happenings. Our goal is to anticipate what you might need for important times, like Holy Week, and then do the work of creating beautiful digital imagery so that you don’t have to. 

To help you create your Holy Week social posts, we went ahead and tagged every graphic that relates to Holy Week with keywords that you can search. For example, use the search bar to search “Triduum,”“Good Friday,” “Easter Sunday,” or, simply, “Holy Week” to see our curated selections for each of those search terms. We also have collections already pinned for you that can be found right above the search bar. These pinned collections are indicated by the little push-pin graphic next to each of them and are curated by our team to correspond with the changing liturgical year and upcoming holidays.

Once you’ve found something that you like, you can download it and use it for any social media post! In fact, you may notice that there are a few social-media-specific sections that you can browse. Selecting one of the social media sections in WeCreate will allow you to limit your search to our collections of images designed specifically for social media use. Using our professional images will enhance your posts and attract attention to the important information you are sharing! Everything you find in the WeCreate Library can be repurposed for your parish’s use.

Templates

Our templates are similar to our ready-made graphics except for one very important difference — you, the user, can change the wording to fit your own needs! The process for creating these customizations is straightforward. First, select the WeCreate section titled “Templates – Graphics,” then use the search bar to search for something specific. For instance, maybe you want to advertise your Youth Stations of the Cross event, but you prefer an image in the collection that happens to read “Stations of the Cross at Our Parish,” instead. No problem! You did your search in the template section so that means you can change the wording to - whatever you like. Once you click the template, you will see a window with text boxes on the left and the image preview on the right. All you have to do is type your own custom text into the boxes and watch as the image refreshes, reflecting your customizations. Once you’ve changed the text, you can download the graphic, complete with your new wording, and use it any way you like! 

Facebook & Instagram Stories

Don’t forget to take advantage of the high viewership that comes with using the stories feature on Facebook and Instagram when you are sharing your Holy Week posts! In fact, we have graphics that are the perfect size for posting onto your church’s stories. These can be found in our WeCreate section titled Social Media Stories . Don’t forget to use the title slides we make for each of our social media story graphic series so that your parishioners know what content you are offering them! We also have stand-alone story graphics that say things like “Join us for the Stations of the Cross” as well as story series that do things like explain the three pillars of lent, teach about the use of ashes on Ash Wednesday, or help you share your parish’s Holy Week schedule. Don’t forget that you can always add more content to our story graphics and many are made with extra space available so that you can do things like drop in your Mass times, stickers , or any other content you might want to share. 

Social Media Banners

Does your church use Facebook events or another social media event sharing site like Meetup.com or eventbrite to share the happenings at your parish? If so, we have a selection of properly-sized social media banners that you can drop into the templates that Facebook and others use for their event pages! These banner-sized graphics are found under our WeCreate section titled “Social Media Banners.”

Although this blog is specifically about using WeCreate for social media posts, these resources don’t have to be restricted to use solely on Facebook and Instagram. Use our graphics on any social media platform or even on your website! We love seeing how you use our designs, so don’t forget to tag LPi in your posts this Easter season so that we can celebrate all of the creative ways that you are using LPi content online!

Want some extra help? We have a social media content calendar available inside of WeCreate that has curated graphics and caption copy available for parishes to simply copy and paste into their social media feeds!

Updated on 03-13-2024