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Sat 09 Sep 2009Angelus undergoes revamp but gongs remain the same
THE ANGELUS will from next Monday be changed – though not utterly. Under a revamping of the evening pause for prayer on RTÉ One television, the gongs will remain the same. These are the same ones as have been heard since the Angelus was first broadcast on RTÉ radio in 1950, and which originated with the bells at Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral.
But there will be seven “episodes” in a new Angelus mini-series of visual reflections, each of which will be aimed at encouraging viewers to take time out from “the weariness, the fever and the fret” of contemporary Irish life.
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