Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound in many churches. Yet another centuries-old practice has remained in some ...
GREAT BARRINGTON — Some people who live downtown say the hourly bell that tolls at First Congregational Church is a sweet sound amid nighttime street clamor like trucks and sirens. But for at least ...
Church bells speak again in Spain thanks to effort to recover the lost ‘language’ of ringing by hand
JOANETES, Spain (AP) — Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a church bell. Clang-clong ...
From “Jingle Bells” to the street-corner bell ringers of the Salvation Army, the sound of the Christmas season is bells. But bell ringing has a rich history, integrated into daily and liturgical life ...
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