Hi Mary,

I assume you are attending an Ordo Mass. It may or may not be a rubric of the liturgy.

In cases where a parish does not have anyone who wants to volunteer to be an altar server, you made not have any one to ring the bells.

There should be enough people for Sunday Mass so this is not an issue.

Daily Mass would be another issue. Maybe you should consider volunteering your time.

Ideally, there should always be someone there to ring the bells but it does not effect the validity of the Mass in any way.

Hope this helps,

Mike

Mary,

It goes by parish: some do, some don't. At my parish, we not only have hand bells to ring but an electronic remote to the bells in the tower that are rung during consecration.

I think you will find that, by and large, most parishes do adhere to using bells. Nevertheless, there are always those who don't.

Peace,

Bob Kirby