When bells go quiet, a wooden clatter marks Holy Week rites

As the Mass of the Lord’s Supper was celebrated on Holy Thursday, April 2, many may have heard a different sound — not the usual ringing of bells, but the sharp clatter of a wooden clapper marking the solemn transition toward the commemoration of the Lord’s Passion and death. Known as a crotalus, the wooden clapper replaces the ringing of bells after the Gloria in the Holy Thursday liturgy, when the church remembers the moment Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist. Bells, which had remained silent during the 40-day season of Lent that began on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, are rung […]... Keep on reading: When bells go quiet, a wooden clatter marks Holy Week rites

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