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 ...
So it went unrung for several years until a separate concrete-block tower was built for it as part of a 1908 church expansion. Westlake United Methodist undertook what turned out to be a yearslong ...
Sitting in a chair with ropes looped around both feet and hands, Joan Carles Osuna, a student of the Vall d’en Bas School of Bell Ringers, performs playing all four bronze bells at the church bell ...
The other day, in an old John Wayne western, I watched as the bad guys were holed up in a church belfry. But they were put on the run by ...
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Church bells ring 11 years after fire
All six bells have been been ringing once again at a Grade II listed church which was gutted by a fire in 2014. A blaze, blamed at the time by an electrical fault, engulfed St Peter's Church in the ...
Downtown Durham residents woke up to the sound of church bells on June 1. But instead of a hymn, the melody “You can take me hot to go!” rang out from the century-old bell tower of Duke Memorial ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — It's a sound that Grand Rapid's Westside residents have heard for centuries. The Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church has been ringing their bells since 1924. Sacred Heart of ...
A Devon village has celebrated the restoration of its historic bells with a flower festival. The centuries-old bells at St Lawrence Church in Bigbury had been unsafe to ring for 20 years until they ...
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 ...
JOANETES, Spain — 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!
Bells reverberated across the Financial District on Saturday afternoon, producing thunderous clangs and glissandos. Bands had traveled as far as hundreds of miles to climb into the landmark Trinity ...
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