{"id":85915,"date":"2026-08-28T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85915"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:13:22","slug":"the-surprising-spiritual-power-of-church-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/the-surprising-spiritual-power-of-church-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surprising Spiritual Power Of Church Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.en.aleteia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/web3-spiritual-church-bells-andrew-wilkinson-cc.jpg?resize=1200,675&amp;q=85\" alt=\"CHURCH BELLS\" width=\"322\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Church bells have been around since the 5th century\u00a0<\/strong>and were in common usage in the Middle Ages<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>They were particularly used by monastic communities to call the monks, who during the day were in various places in the monastery, to gather for prayer in the chapel.<\/p>\n<p>However<strong>, the church bells also have great spiritual power.<\/strong>\u00a0When a new church bell is installed it is traditionally\u00a0<strong>&#8220;baptized&#8221; or &#8220;consecrated&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>by the bishop or local priest. Former ceremonies mirrored that of baptism and the current ceremony still requires the use of holy water. The bells are also given a name in honor of a particular patron saint, though many are named after the Blessed Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: Church bells have been around since the 5th century\u00a0and were in common usage in the Middle Ages.\u00a0They were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85916,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85915\/revisions\/85916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}