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PATSY McGARRY. "Angelus undergoes revamp but gongs remain the same." The Irish Times. The Irish Times. 2009. HighBeam Research. 27 Mar. 2016 <https://www.highbeam.com>.
PATSY McGARRY. "Angelus undergoes revamp but gongs remain the same." The Irish Times. 2009. HighBeam Research. (March 27, 2016). https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-20782966.html
PATSY McGARRY. "Angelus undergoes revamp but gongs remain the same." The Irish Times. The Irish Times. 2009. Retrieved March 27, 2016 from HighBeam Research: https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-20782966.html
THE ANGELUS will from next Monday be changed - though not utterly. Under a revamping of the evening pause for prayer on RTE One television, the gongs will remain the same. These are the same ones as have been heard since the Angelus was first broadcast on RTE 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.
The editor of religious programmes at RTE, Roger Childs, said he hoped the new Angelus would "continue to be valued by many people as a moment of grace and peace", as they took time out from "the whirr and blur of contemporary Irish life . …
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