Confused church bells on Pacific between Vanderbilt and Underhill

sb

Anyone else noticed that the bells chime like 37 or 48 o'clock every day at five til noon? I sort of like it now, but wondered if anyone knew why.

bohuma

Could just be calling the faithful to midday services. Catholic churches have historically had an eighteen bell peal at 6 a.m., noon and 6 p.m. for The Angelus, but I would think that the random ding donging I heard at around 11.55 this morning was some newbie bell ringer who has no idea what s/he is doing. I was in the Stroud playground and couldn't quite tell which direction the bells were coming from. My husband thought they were coming from St Teresa's Church, but I couldn't see the bell moving in the tower (and I looked). St Teresa's has Mass at 11 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. on Sunday, so it could have been ringing for the end of Mass, although that is not a tradition I am familiar with.

melcsims

Yep, definitely! I live right next to that church and they chime the bells at seemingly random times every Sunday. No idea why though.

eastbloc

I live on the block with Teresa's and have never heard their bells once, come to think of it.

sb

They do it during the week, too. We actually have a lot of fun counting the number of times they ring, sometimes for the hour, sometimes for, say 10:17 am.