A church bell in the Christian tradition is the bell that sounded in church for various church purposes, and can be heard outside the building. Traditionally they are used to call worshipers to church for communal services, and to announce daily prayer times, called canonical clocks. They are also rung on special occasions such as weddings, or funerals. In some religious traditions they are used in the church service liturgy to show people that a certain part of the service has been accomplished. The ringing of church bells, in the Christian tradition, is also believed to cast out demons.
The traditional church bell of Europe (see cutaway picture) used in Christian churches around the world consists of a cup-shaped metal resonator with an inner spinning grip that hits the side when the bell is swung. It is hung in a church tower or church tower or religious building, so that the sound can reach a large area. Such bells can be fixed ("hanging dead") or hanged from pivoted beams ("headstock") so they can swing back and forth. A strap hangs from a lever or wheel attached to the headstock, and when the bell chime pulls the bell rope swings back and forth and the bell touches the inside, ringing a bell. The bells that are hanged off are usually sounded by hitting a voice bow with a hammer or sometimes with a rope that pulls the internal bell against the bell.
A church may have a single bell, or set of bells set to the general scale. They may be stationary and chimed, randomly sounded by swinging through a small arc, or swinging through a full circle to allow a high level of English change ringer control.
Before modern communication, church bells are a common way of calling the community together for all purposes, both sacred and secular.
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Usage and tradition
Call to pray
In Christianity, several Anglican, Catholic, and Lutheran churches ring their church bells from fetters three times a day, at 6:00, 12:00 noon. and 6:00 pm, calling Christians to recite the Our Father's Prayer, or Angelus, a prayer recited in honor of God's Incarnation.
The command to pray the Lord's prayer three times each day is given in Didache 8, 2 f., Which, in turn, is influenced by the practice of the three-day-praying Jews found in the Old Testament, especially in the Psalms. 55:17, which shows "night and morning and day," and Daniel 6:10, where Daniel prays three times a day. Thus, the Catechism of the Catholic Church declares that the Early Church prays the Lord's Prayer three times a day, replacing the formerly dominant Amidah in the Hebrew tradition. In the General Prayer , the Office of the Daily , which is the center of Anglican spirituality, also includes the Lord's Prayer, along with "the choice of the Psalms, the passage from Scripture, [and] one or more scroll. "
Some Protestant Churches ring the bells of the church during the prayer of the Our Lord's Prayer Congregation, after the sermon, to remind those who can not be present to "unite themselves in spirit with the congregation."
In many historic Christian Churches, church bells are also rung on All Hallows' Night, as well as during the Candlemas and Palm Sunday processions; the only time of the Christian Year when church bells are not rung including White Thursday through the Easter Vigil. The Christian tradition of ringing church bells from beltower is analogous to the Islamic adzan tradition of a tower.
Call to worship
Most Christian denominations ring church bells to call the faithful to worship, signaling the commencement of mass or worship.
In the United Kingdom especially in the Anglican church, there is a strong tradition of change clanging to the bells of the full circle tower for about half an hour before the service. It dates from the early 17th century when the bell rang to discover that swinging bells through a large bow gave more control over time between successive strikes. It culminates by ringing the bell through the full circle, allowing the ring to easily produce distinctly striking sequences; known as changes .
Exorcism of demons
In Christianity, the ringing of church bells is traditionally believed to cast out demons and other unclean spirits. The inscriptions of church bells relating to the purpose of church bells, as well as the purpose of serving as a call to prayer and worship, are customary, for example "the sound of this bell conquered the tempest, cast out demons, and called men". Some churches have several bells with the justification that "the more church bells, the louder they ring, and the farther away they can hear, the less likely that evil forces will disrupt the parish."
Funeral and memorial memorial
The ringing of church bells in the English tradition to announce the death is called the death knell. The conspicuous pattern depends on the deceased; for example, in the Kent and Surrey areas of England, there are usually three times three strokes for a man and two times three for a woman, and one for three for a child. The age of the deceased was then sounded. In this small settlement can effectively identify who has just died.
There are three events around death when the bell can be sounded. There is a "Passing Bell" to warn of the impending death, the second of Death Knell to announce death, and the last one is "Lych Bell", or "Corpse Bell" which is rung at the funeral as the procession approaches the church. The latter is known today as a funeral victim.
A more modern tradition in which there is a full-circle bell is to use "half muffle" when ringing a bell as a bell tolled, or all bells change-ringing. This means muffling the skin is placed on top of the bells of each bell so there is a loud "open" strike followed by a muffled strike, which has a very loud and heartbreaking effect.
Sanctus Bells
The term "bell of Sanctus" traditionally refers to the bells hanging on the bells at the top of the nave roof, above the pulpit arches, or hung in church towers, in medieval churches. The bells are sounded in the song of Sanctus and again at the elevation (liturgy) of the elements, to show those who are not present in the building that the moment of consecration has been achieved. These practices and terms are still commonly used in many Anglican churches.
In the body of the church the function of the sanctus bell can also be done with small bell or a set of bells like that (called altar bells thrown just before the consecration of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ and again when the Consecrated Elements are shown to the people, Sacring rings or "Gloria wheels" are commonly used in the Roman Catholic Churches in Spain and former colonies for this purpose.
Orthodox Church
In the Eastern Orthodox Church there is a long and complicated history of bells ringing, with certain bells ringing in a certain way to signify different parts of divine service, funerals, etc. This custom is very sophisticated in the Russian Orthodox Church. Russian bells are usually silent, and sounded by pulling the rope attached to the bell so that it will hit the inside of the bell.
Other uses
Clock
Some churches have clocked clocks that use clocks to broadcast time by striking hours and sometimes in quarters. The notable flashy musical pattern is Westminster Quarters. This is only done when the bells are stationary, and the clock mechanism moves the hammers on the outside of the bell curve. In the case of bells that usually swing for other rings, there is a manual locking mechanism that prevents the hammer from operating while the bell is sounded.
Warning invasion
In World War II in the United Kingdom, all church bells were silenced, to call only to inform the invasion by enemy troops.
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Design and ringing techniques
The bells of a Christian church have a cup-shaped metal cast resonator with a lit edge, and a knot spins depending on its center inside. Usually mounted high in the bell tower above the church, so it can be heard by the surrounding community. The bell is suspended from the swingable headstock on the bearings. The rope is tied to the wheel or lever on the headstock, and is hung on the bell. To ring a bell, the ruler pulls the rope, swings the bell. The movement caused the bell to attack the inside of the bell for swinging, so there was a bell. Some bells have full circle wheels, which are used to swing bells through a larger arc, as in England where full circle rings are practiced.
Unwanted bells are "chimed in", meaning they are beaten by an external hammer, or with a rope attached to the internal bell, which is a tradition in Russia.
Thanks to the bells
In some churches, bells are often blessed before being hung.
In the Roman Catholic Church, the name Baptism of the Bell has been given thanks to the church bell service, at least in France, since the eleventh century. It comes from the washing of the bell with holy water by the bishop, before he anoints with the "weak man's oil" without and with the inside of the chris; a smoky incense was placed underneath and the bishop prayed for the sacrament of the Church, with the sound of the bell, putting the devil to escape, protecting from the storm, and calling the faithful to pray.
History
In the year 400, Paulinus of Nola introduced church bells into the Christian Church. In AD 604, the Sabinian Pope formally approved its use. In the early Middle Ages, church bells became common in Europe. They were first common in northern Europe, reflecting Celtic influences, mainly from Irish missionaries. Before using church bells, the Greek monasteries would sound flat metal plates (see semantron ) to announce the service. The signa and campanae are used to announce services before Irish influence may be flat plates like semantics rather than bells. The oldest surviving bell circle in England is housed in St Lawrence Church, Ipswich.
Picture gallery
See also
- Hand Bell
- The bells
- Bellfounding
- Campanologi
- Central Council of Bell Ringers Church
- Change rings
- Art reads veronese
- Loudspeaker in the mosque
- Russian orthodox bells ring
- Bolognese bell art
- Ring of bells
References
External links
- English animations Full church circle bells ring
- Full circle video English, 8 half muffled bells and one bell clanged
- Full circle video English, 8 bells tolling "open"
- Sound of Bells - Investigate into their settings
- Research and Identification of Valuable Bells of Bulgarian History and Culture and Development of Audio and Video Archives with Advanced Technology
- Bell-Ringing Central
- Old archive of church bells in Chatham, Kent, England, ca.1900
- All Saints Bell Tower
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