{"id":1677,"date":"2016-04-02T16:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T20:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-bells-hang-silently\/"},"modified":"2016-04-02T16:02:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T20:02:23","slug":"the-bells-hang-silently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-bells-hang-silently\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bells Hang Silently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bells play a special role this time of year \u2013 Holy Week through Easter Sunday. I was never aware\u00a0of this, as I don\u2019t think many people are, until we put in our own set of change ringing bells. I\u00a0have always thought of bells in the role of ringing out as a call to worship, as well as news and\u00a0celebration. But they also have a part to play in silence. Our Maundy Thursday service bulletin\u00a0had a meditation to ponder on its cover and I was particularly struck by the words \u201cthe bells\u00a0hang silently.\u201d They are not rung from Palm Sunday until the Easter Vigil Saturday night. We\u00a0have grown used to hearing them every day of the week and suddenly there is silence where\u00a0there has been joyful \u201cnoise.\u201d But even beyond the quiet of the week \u2013 no organ as well \u2013\u00a0it\u00a0feels that the silent presence of the bells in the tower has a waiting feeling. It enhances my own\u00a0sense of waiting for the Passion and the Resurrection of our Lord, and enriches the true\u00a0celebration when once again they ring out with the news of our Salvation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/PERhhom4pxY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bells play a special role this time of year \u2013 Holy Week through Easter Sunday. I was never aware\u00a0of this, as I don\u2019t think many people are, until we put in our own set of change ringing bells. I\u00a0have always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-bells-hang-silently\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}