Ringing Bells at Consecration

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Does the catholic church you attend ring bells at the Consecration?
mine does not.
wondering how prevalent it is…
 
Mine does, at every Mass. I don’t think we are the norm in my immediate area.
 
Mine does, every Mass. Except during Lent(Preference of my Priest)
 
Mine rings hand-held sanctus bells depending on the celebrant and server.

We recently started to clock our biggest tower bell at the epiclesis (2 strikes) and both major elevations (3 strikes at each.) Far more historic and poinient than the hand held bells.
 
Yes ours does, but most Catholic Churches in our area do not.
 
Current pastor brought the bells back (at the request of several parishioners including yours truly), after a hiatus of about 3 pastors.

Not common at other parishes in our area.
 
My church does. The sacristan at my church told me that while an altar server was ringing the bells during the Gloria at the Easter Vigil, they just all fell apart. :eek: How horrific. They had another set though.
 
Not at my parish

To the best of my knowledge we do not have sanctuary bells and never have since the parish existed.
 
Yes mine does. So does the one down the street. 3 nice, resonating jingles during the elevation of the Host and the Cup. I used to attend Latin mass and they also rang them during the part where the priest calls the Holy Spirit down upon the gifts just prior to the Consecration (can’t remember what that part is called).

I think it’s a lovely practice. 🙂
 
Our current pastor does not use the bells. (I’ve come to appreciate the reverent silence.) In my experience it’s about 50-50 in this area. QoP has bells. St. P’s does not. St E’s does…

Bells are nice.

Silence is nice.

It’s all good!!
 
all catholic churches do that they ring bells to acknowledge the presence of the Body then followed by the Blood of Christ
 
acadian said:
Our current pastor does not use the bells. (I’ve come to appreciate the reverent silence.) In my experience it’s about 50-50 in this area. QoP has bells. St. P’s does not. St E’s does…

Bells are nice.

Silence is nice.

It’s all good!!
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My parish does not use the bells, but I occasionally attend Mass at a parish that does, and I have to agree the silence is nice.
 
CatholicZ09 said:
My church does. The sacristan at my church told me that while an altar server was ringing the bells during the Gloria at the Easter Vigil, they just all fell apart. :eek: How horrific. They had another set though.
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Our bells did that at last years Vigil. First one bell dropped then another… the poor server. I think I only noticed because my husband came into the Church so we were in the front row.

And yes, we’re on an Army post but ours ring at every mass.
 
At our local parish no; at our former parish, no; at the two parishes prior to that, no.

Only a few in our general area ring the bells any more. But in my travels and visits to other areas, I have run into some that do, more frequently than in local parishes. I would guestimate that it is about 1/4 or 1/3 of the parishes I have been in over the past few years.

I had assumed that the change occurred along with the Mass in the Vernacular, since the assembled would not need to be alerted to the Consecration when they could understand the words. But apparently not.
 
My Parish does have the bells. I could not imagine Mass without them.
 
We have two churches (one parish) – oddly enough at one place we ring the bells and at the other we don’t. Not sure why that is, or even how it developed.

By the way, the best way of ringing the bells is at both the elevations (paten and chalice) and the epiclesis.

This helps people understand and remember that it is a TWO-FOLD action that changes the elements into the Sacred Species - the action of the Holy Spirit (epiclesis) and the words of Jesus (words of consecration).

God bless,
 
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