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Merge

Is there any reason why this shouldn't be merged with sanctus bell? The object is the same. Fishhead64 02:22, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't seem to have a problem either. As it's been 5 months since this started, I'll merge now. Radagast83 07:01, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Should the Sacring-Bell be merged as well? (Terot 17:28, 2 March 2007 (UTC))[reply]

lack of consensus

I believe it is clear there is a lack of consensus for this change: [1]. Bold-Revert-Discuss seems to apply. Can we revert it, and continue the discussion, and only reinstate it if a new consensus should emerge? The issue is being actively discussed at Talk:Maundy Thursday. Tb (talk) 18:28, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As a compromise, we can also replace the name of the day with "the Thursday before Easter". Tb (talk) 18:35, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Methodism

The United Methodist Church also uses altar bells, at the beginning and/or end of the service. Yet this only speaks of catholic and high Anglican churches. Tarheelz123 (talk) 21:40, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is a local church custom and hardly universal. Also, this would be the use of a chancel bell, not altar bells rung during the consecration of the Eucharist. IACOBVS (talk) 22:23, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Altar bells are also used in ritual magick and by pagans and wiccans. this article seems to only talk about its use in christianity.

Alkingl (talk) 21:16, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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==Methodist== In some Methodist churches, particularly the United Methodist Church of the United States, altar bells are used two different times during common services held on Sundays.^[1] The Chimes of the Trinity are rung by an acolyte before the prelude of the service and at the end of the benediction. The Chimes of the Trinity is the ringing of the bell three times to represent the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

I have deleted this entire section above. It has nothing to do with altar bells (rung during the consecration of Eucharist). It mentions something called the "Chimes of the Trinity" from a magazine in 1890 which are rung before the prelude and at the end of the service. This archane practice is unknown in Methodism. And there is zero tradition or sanction for the use of altar bells at the Eucharistic consecration. Methodists are not Anglo-Catholic or High Church Anglicans. It would be helpful if whoever is inserting "Methodism" into every Christian liturgical article on Wikipedia would cease from this bizarre vandalism.--IACOBVS (talk) 22:22, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

^ "Methodist Magazine". 1890.

[1] "Methodist Magazine". 1890.

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