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Bring Back the Bells, and the Bell Tower, Too By Michael S. Rose |
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"It were but right that you should return our bells, for we are in sore need of them!"
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A church should not only be seen, but heard.
Designers of our late twentieth century churches have all but forgotten such simple wisdom. While they have often tried in many ways to conceal the church building visually (e.g., by making the church look like a library or giving it proportions dominated by the horizontal rather than the vertical), they have had an easier time silencing it. That is, designers and liturgists have effectively eliminated the use of bells both inside and outside the church. This is a fact that is not only lamentable, it is one that needs to be rectified in the churches of the twenty-first century. Bells are an important, if almost forgotten, aspect of both the church building and the liturgy.
A summons to prayer...
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