Are You Still Hearing Church Bells Every Morning?
By Tokz
@ilocosboy (45157)
Philippines
November 28, 2017 3:24pm CST
Your answer would be YES, if...
1. You are living in the Philippines
2. You are living near the Catholic church
And your answer would NO, if...
...You are not living near the church.
And your answer would be MAYBE, if...
...You can only hear them during Christmas season.
In my place, San Esteban, the church never fail to ring the church bell at exactly 5 o clock in the morning. No morning would be pass without ringing from Monday to Sunday.
No it didn't wake me up because I used to the sound now. But some people here serve the church bell ring as alarm clock.
From a distance its a nice sound to hear, as our favorite song says...
Silver bells, silver bells
Its Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be CHRISTMAS DAY.
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15 responses
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
28 Nov 17
The Catholic church in our place only plays music when it's the start of the midnight masses during Christmas season, it's a newer structure unlike ancient Catholic churches in our country that have high and large belfry towers.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
@ilocosboy I know, because your place is a very old settlement, I think I told you before that some of my ancestors from my father's side were from your province, Narvacan in particular. Our subdivision in Las Pinas is very new, it was settled only in the late 60s from a converted rice field.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
Maybe its good once in while you visit our place.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
The good thing about ilocos is that most of the churches and belfry were never changed though they're rehabilitated
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
i think it's the same with smell. on my 2nd visit to a new spa here, i told the owner that i really love how fragrant it is inside and she confessed that she cannot smell it. maybe because she and her staff have become used to it.
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
29 Nov 17
@hereandthere That must be the same phenomenon.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
Just like me, seems like it's only this morning that I heard the church bell rang again though it never miss every morning 
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@allen0187 (58438)
• Philippines
28 Nov 17
Back when I was living near a church, I'd hear the church bells every morning.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
28 Nov 17
It never fail to ring here every morning, until now
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@averygirl72 (37716)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
That's nice to know. I wake up at 5 am it's a good alarm clock for me. The chapel near our house don't use a church bell
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
Its been a practice in my place to ring that bell at 5am, some church do it every hour
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
Some churches here rang it every hour and then the angelus. Some people in the community don't like it because there are other religions too.
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@JudyEv (325654)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Nov 17
@ilocosboy In Australia in some areas there would be lots of complaints about the ringing of bells.
@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
Few people are complaining here, only when its too early, lets say 4am.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
I think its a helpful thing the bell ring every morning.
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@YrNemo (20261)
•
29 Nov 17
@ilocosboy 
(Sunday was hard though, the bells dinged donged throughout the day, almost for this or that mass...)
(Sunday was hard though, the bells dinged donged throughout the day, almost for this or that mass...)1 person likes this
@Freelanzer (10745)
• Canada
29 Nov 17
There is something so special about the sound of church bells ringing at the same time every day
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
Some of these churches have been doing this for more than 400 years.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
its the chapel boy that rang it every morning1 person likes this
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
there is a distant bell tolling every Sunday. i thought that is from our chapel here in my barangay.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
@ilocosboy hahaha! but near our house about 20 meters only is a 'chapel' of the Born Again Christian, and about 500 meters far, is another chapel of a religious denomination wherein there is a statue of a bishop. 
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
I'm certain the nearest dont ring the bell but that 500 meters will surely ring its bell
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
If its every morning it must be from chapel
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
Wow, you must be living the church, that's nice.
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
29 Nov 17
@ilocosboy
Yes, walking distance from where we live.
@thislittlepennyearns (58134)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
28 Nov 17
If I go to the park in the mornings they trying to Bells every hour on the hour
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@Shivram59 (31748)
• India
29 Nov 17
@ilocosboy Church is far away from my place.I hear bells ringing at a temple just behindon't my house.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
Sometimes a sound from a distance seems magical
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@Shivram59 (31748)
• India
3 Dec 17
@ilocosboy Exactly,and more so if it is coming from a temple or church.
@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
29 Nov 17
Its like I've been usedto the ringing, I only notice it once in a while.
