Community good causes and charities Benefit from Freemasons in Witney Oxfordshire

Community good causes and charities Benefit from Freemasons in Witney Oxfordshire

Each year the Buttercross Freemasons Lodge in Witney, raises money for community good causes and charities. The year 2015 – 2016 was no exception, the Worshipful Master Ron Ashton decided to select the Eynsham and Long Hanborough Medical Care Group to receive £1000. This was not only in recognition of the continued good work, support and medical care the Centre continues to provide the local community, but in recent times they helped both him and his wife through periods of illness!

Oscar Wilde – A University Freemason – by W.Bro. Yasha Beresiner

Oscar Wilde – A University Freemason

Today no one will deny the genius of Oscar Wilde. Yet during his own lifetime he was spurned and humiliated in spite of the success of much of his work. He was a victim of the society into which he was born. The Victorian middle-class, whose sacred institutions of morality Wilde was to infringe, simply had no patience or tolerance for him. The saddest of the tragedies that Wilde was to write could not match the events that were to unfold and Freemasonry, which did play a significant part during his time at Oxford