Promoting the Fraternity across the World
At the Devonshire Provincial Grand Lodge Meeting on 6th October, Rt.W.Bro. Peter Balsom had the pleasure of presenting the St John Ambulance Service with the new Treatment Centre from the Mark Benevolent Fund and the Mark Master Masons of Devonshire. St John Ambulance is the nation’s leading first aid charity, and Every year, more than 400,000 … Read more
For 30 years Kirkwood Hospice in Kirklees has provided specialist care, free of charge, to adults with advanced, progressive illnesses with the aim of ‘improving the lives of people with incurable conditions so that they can make the most of the time that they have left’. The Hospice provides a 16-bed in-patient unit, a Support … Read more
On Wednesday I was privileged and pleased to present the new Mobile Treatment Vehicle to the St John Ambulance for Buckinghamshire at the Sir Nigel Mobbs Centre in Milton Keynes. It was a great pleasure and honour to be welcomed and thanked by Elizabeth, the Countess Howe DL, Past President of the Order in Buckinghamshire. … Read more
Masons donate funds for vital blood car to transport supplies to hospitals
The Mark is a ceremony or degree [sometimes called the ‘friendly’ degree], conferrable today only to Master Masons and forms part of a hierarchical organization. In Craft Masonry it was quite a late innovation making its appearance during the mid-1700s. However we do know that Operative Masons, without any kind of ceremony, were taking marks 150 years before the Mark came into use as part of that particular ceremony.
