Church bells to ring Sunday at noon
The city’s church bells will all be ringing for ten minutes Sunday at noon, in an apparent attempt to comfort people, not to alarm them thinking it’s a warning of alien invasion.
Update: This item says it will be “every Sunday till Easter” i.e. three consecutive Sundays if Easter is included.
denpanosekai 18:55 on 2020-03-27 Permalink
I don’t want none of this. No church bells, no mosque loudspeakers, no nothing at all.
Kate 19:33 on 2020-03-27 Permalink
Without being religious at all, I like church bells. Try standing on Place d’Armes when the bells of Notre Dame let loose. You can feel them all the way down your spine. But even a decent-sized parish church can make a great sound.
Ian 04:48 on 2020-03-28 Permalink
Besides as we’ve been told repeatedly, Catholicism isn’t religion, it’s patrimoine. /s
That said now that synagogues are closed my neighbours have taken to praying loudly every morning on their stoops so I get woken up by people chanting. Bells wouldn’t be more annoying and would at least be shorter.