Can You Hear Church Bells From Where You Live?

[+ Avalon]

I live near the parish church. And sometimes if otherwise it's very quiet I can hear the noon Angelus bells ring. It's canned.

[gallahadesquire]

If the windows are open I hear a real bell

[beachboy]

I used to live within hearing of 2 churches, a hospital, a police station & a fire station. Bells?! Enough to wake the dead!!

[Bearofdistinction]

Picked my home location for among other reasons to avoid --- the closest church and rectomry are now overpriced townhouses

 

And the catholic school has become Condos

[prof]

Edgar Allan Poe was just waiting for this thread to develop:

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/bells

[MikeBiDude]

I live near the parish church. And sometimes if otherwise it's very quiet I can hear the noon Angelus bells ring. It's canned.

Angelus bells at noon is pretty old school Catholic

[+ Avalon]

Edgar Allan Poe was just waiting for this thread to develop:

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/bells

 

Excellent! Thanks!

 

https://www.shmoop.com/bells-poe/sound-check.html

[prof]

Excellent! Thanks!

 

https://www.shmoop.com/bells-poe/sound-check.html

 

Super, Avalon! Looks like we're just about ready to do a seminar in this thread.

 

Btw--whenever I visit England one of my fave details is the sound of actual church bells ringing. Happened to pass a church in July where a wedding was concluding--hung around just to listen to the joyful pealing.

[samhexum]

Can You Hear Church Bells From Where You Live?

 

Curiously, I hear this... should I be worried?

[Rudynate]

I live near the parish church. And sometimes if otherwise it's very quiet I can hear the noon Angelus bells ring. It's canned.

 

 

They have it at noon too? Where I grew up, they said the Angelus on the radio every day at 6PM. It was strange-a top 40 station interrupting programming every day for the Angelus prayer.

[Rudynate]

There's a Mormon church down the street and an Assembly of God church down the cross street, but no bells, just lots of cute young Mormon missionaries. I really enjoy them.

[+ Avalon]

They have it at noon too? Where I grew up, they said the Angelus on the radio every day at 6PM. It was strange-a top 40 station interrupting programming every day for the Angelus prayer.

 

The custom is to ring the Angelus bells 3x each day. 6AM, Noon, 6PM.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus

[+ Avalon]

There's a Mormon church down the street and an Assembly of God church down the cross street, but no bells, just lots of cute young Mormon missionaries. I really enjoy them.

 

I know! I like to impress them; I have Mormon roots. When the missionaries came to England in the 1840s there was a widow woman with two grown daughters with families of their own. The widow woman - my great great great great grandmother - she joined the church and came to Nauvoo, Illinois where the church headquarters was then. In 1847 she died in Iowa when the Mormons were going to Utah.

[Youngmilkman]

A delightful Greek orthodox church rings bells at least once a day near me. I know nothing about Christianity but love hearing the bells from my window

[Rudynate]

I know! I like to impress them; I have Mormon roots. When the missionaries came to England in the 1840s there was a widow woman with two grown daughters with families of their own. The widow woman - my great great great great grandmother - she joined the church and came to Nauvoo, Illinois where the church headquarters was then. In 1847 she died in Iowa when the Mormons were going to Utah.

 

They're so persistent that they will chat all day long if you let them. Several years ago I had a spine surgery. I was supposed to go out and walk several times a day and I had a walker that I used outside of the house. I was out walking and a swarm of missionaries surrounded me, all of them eager to help. I chatted with them for awhIle and told them I wasn't looking for a new religion, so they went there way after that.

[rvwnsd]

St Mary's Basilica in downtown Phoenix.

[+ Avalon]

St Mary's Basilica in downtown Phoenix.

 

<< Masses are celebrated from Monday to Friday at Noon, beginning with the singing of the Angelus,>>

 

Must be interesting.

[+ WilliamM]

I enjoy the intefplay of sounds at dusk in countries like Bosnia where the sounds of Moslims and Christains mix (Sarajevo and Mostar, Bosnia).

[Nvr2Thick]

[marylander1940]

There's a Mormon church down the street and an Assembly of God church down the cross street, but no bells, just lots of cute young Mormon missionaries. I really enjoy them.

 

www.mormonboyz.com but the real Mormons are waaay hotter!

[+ Avalon]

www.mormonboyz.com but the real Mormons are waaay hotter!

 

I don't think facial hair is the norm for Mormons these day; it doesn't meet BYU studies.

 

So I had this Mormon friend and I was going to buy her a gift for her birthday. A Mormon had made his garage into a bookstore. But later when I went back another time it was no longer a bookstore but was now a dorm for missionaries. Half-a-dozen young men were surprised when I opened the door and walked in!

 

I've heard of missionaries falling in love with their mission companion.

[MikeBiDude]

I've heard of missionaries falling in love with their mission companion.

Watch this fun episode of a quirky HBO show:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6870564/

[+ Avalon]

Watch this fun episode of a quirky HBO show:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6870564/

 

Thank-you!

 

 

One thing - one said should we offer it up to Saint Augustine. I doubt that most Mormons have heard of Saint Augustine of Hippo. He became an unwed teenage father at age 17.

 

His famous quote is

 

‘Lord make me pure but not yet!’

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latter_Days

 

A movie about a gay missionary.

Edited August 14, 2018 by Avalon