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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writing a column about bell-ringing is, in a way, a hopeless endeavor. The experience is like taking a photocopy of a photocopy — the product takes you further from the art at hand, the lived ...

When I was a first-year, I used to think that the chiming bells I’d occasionally hear on campus were caused by the wind. It wasn’t until I spotted poster in the campus center inviting people to a ...

Ukraine's Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has added the Lviv bell-ringing tradition to the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ukraine. The change was made effective by an ...