Speaking of Bells

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The Gloria is only for Holy Thursday and Easter Vigil, I believe…
 
Well here everytime we the Gloria is sung we ring the bells as the bells are used to symbolize joy and happiness and for that reason after the Gloria of Maundy thu we use a wooden clapper instead of a bell and every bell is silent not one ring is heard. And that’s how we do it at our parish and most parishes in the philippines.

Oh what do you mean? the Gloria is sung at every sunday of the year (except for Lent and Advent.)
 
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Oh my bad… Though to what I heard it depends on the local costum cause the bell is a sign of joy and the Gloria should be joyful and Glorious
 
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analtarboy said:
Oh my bad… Though to what I heard it depends on the local costum cause the bell is a sign of joy and the Gloria should be joyful and Glorious
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You don’t usually experience it in parishes where they don’t use altar bells during the rest of the year. What would be the point of the symbolism of “putting away for a time” something you don’t use anyway?
 
The Phillipines, from what I’ve heard, are in somewhat of a land of their own liturgically. Not in a bad way, but more traditional/Spanish than most Americans are used to
 
Not really the only things that were added (in our parish) bells are rung during the entrance (except for the requiam masses) bells during the gloria. We count before stepping so the entrance wouldn’t be too slow or too fast and will not cause any stopping after a person bows or genuflects (only the altar boys though). We often still use incense and other things that I’m guessing are lost in other catholic churches like kneelers during communion and using the paten to catch any host from falling to the ground during communion.

Those are the only things I can think of is different.
 
well, from the perspective of a US altar boy

Funeral masses arent requiem masses
Very few us OF parishes use the paten and the altar rail

so, some mild differences haha
 
we don’t use altar rail cause we kinda don’t have one so we just put kneelers after or during the lamb of God… and really they don’t call it requiem mass we call it that or funeral mass and we use incense during those kinds of mass. Why forget the paten? it always makes us sad/scared when we find out that there aren’t any patens in one of our chapel so instead we use the priest’s paten to substitute.

Ya i guess it’s just a mild difference but we have stricter priests and MCs. lol getting told off at the sacristy when something goes wrong.

I forgot to add that we ring a small bell as a sign of Mass is starting.
 
We do that in America as well.

At my parish, we have 4 communion stations with 2 EMHCs each, so we don’t have enough servers to paten all of them, and even at parishes where it’s possible its usually not done
 
here we only have 3 patens (accidentally broke one of the handle by someone we don’t know) used to be 6 we gave 2 patens to a small chape. Our EMHC comes here randomly so we don’t actually know how many we’ll be needing during mass and we tend to rush to the scaristy to get some extra paten.
 
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