Turks set to ease headscarf ban

[dgriffin]

I spent a weekend at a Trappist Monastery some time ago. I laughed about being woken up at all hours by the bells, but it was actually very moving as I followed the monks to chapel and their song.

[concerned]

Which monastery did you stay at

[Clipper]

concerned, we still hear church bells, but only on Sunday and it is usually a call to worship. Our catholic church here in Bristol has an electronic carillon but I have never heard it played.

I have read on occasion where churches were taken to task for ringing their bells and were restricted to certain times and occasions, as some found the noise irritating. Tradition and such things as ringing church bells have gone by the wayside along with a lot of our heritage. I remember the joy of hearing bells ringing all over the village of Newport when I was a teenager. Sunday mornings in spring with the sun shining, bells ringing and folks walking to the churches in their Sunday finery was something out of a Norman Rockwell painting, put to music.

[kim]

I think the bells in Clinton still ring pretty frequently. There is a little Baptist church not too far from me, right across the street from the Food Lion. Sometimes I'll hear those bells playing. I'm not religious at all, but I like the bells. The sound nice and relaxing.

[frankcor]

Wow, thanks, concerned!

I really like the voice of the cantor in Sting's recording, Desert Rose. He is an Algerian who has now received death threats for contributing to an unauthorized use of music, namely music for entertainment sakes. Some Islamicists believe music is intended only for the calls to prayer.

Superior culture?

[dgriffin]

>>> Which monastery did you stay at<<<
Springfield, MA. I've also been to "Mecca," Gethsemane in Kentucky.

[dgriffin]

>>> churches were taken to task for ringing their bells <<<

Authorities probably used the Blue Laws against them.