We haven’t rung the parish bell in over 10 years, we will soon begin ringing the bell manually every day at 12:00 noon. The rope that is used to pull the bell can be seen in the bottom of the right hand corner of the picture. In the next few weeks we will be looking at getting a new motor so the bell can be rung on a timer, so the bell can also be rung at Mass times. 

When you hear the bell we encourage you to take a moment and join in prayer with the community praying the Angelus. The Angelus reminds us of the Annunciation when the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary with great, (if somewhat startling), news! God wished  Mary, truly a model of humility, to be the mother of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ!

Mary’s humility was genuine. As St. Alphonsus notes in his classic work The Glories of Mary, “her only desire was that her Creator, the giver of every good thing, should be praised and blessed.”

She thought of herself first and foremost as God’s servant, seeking glory not for herself but rather for Him. In so doing, she became, as St. Augustine put it rather poetically, a “heavenly ladder, by which God came into the world,” descending from heaven to earth, to become flesh in her womb. 

So we encourage you, when you hear the bell toll at 12:00pm take a moment and join us in prayer to Mary our Mother. 

THANK YOU TO MY BROTHER KNIGHTS FOR HELPING TO RESTORE THE BELL!