First Erie Installations from June 5th to 11th – First & Second Erie Masonic Districts
Seven Lodges that held their Installations over this past week
Freemasonry
Freemasonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The degrees of freemasonry retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, Journeyman or fellow (now called Fellowcraft), and Master Mason. These are the degrees offered by Craft (or Blue Lodge) Freemasonry. Members of these organisations are known as Freemasons or Masons. There are additional degrees, which vary with locality and jurisdiction, and are usually administered by different bodies than the craft degrees.
The basic, local organisational unit of Freemasonry is the Lodge. The Lodges are usually supervised and governed at the regional level (usually coterminous with either a state, province, or national border) by a Grand Lodge or Grand Orient. There is no international, world-wide Grand Lodge that supervises all of Freemasonry; each Grand Lodge is independent, and they do not necessarily recognise each other as being legitimate.
Crediton Guides receive £1,000 to upgrade kitchen facilities
THANKS to Devon Freemasons and the Unity Lodge, in Crediton, Crediton District Girlguiding has received £1,000 to help upgrade its headquarters at Lords Meadow.
The money is part of £40,000 given by Freemasons around Devon to local charities and organisations throughout the county who are in need of assistance.
Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia – An Introduction (SRIA)
SRIA is something beyond and outside Freemasonry. More and more Freemasons are looking to the Christian degrees for answers to the questions confronted during their daily advancement in Masonic knowledge
Rathcreedan Lodge 8690 – Freemasons Lodge in Banbury
95 Freemasons congregated at Freemasons Hall Banbury to witness the Installation by Proclamation of W. Bro Michael Anthony Allcott serving for a second term as Master of the Lodge.
Apart From The Occasional Ox or Lion . . . .
Richard Lee from Tewkesbury is a volunteer ‘Puppy Walker’ and over the years has succeeded in ‘raising’ 15 of his 18 puppies to become fully-trained guide-dogs. His talent is getting the dogs acquainted with the everyday things which most of us take for granted, such as street-life, trains and buses
William Ellison-Macartney was a Freemason & Irish politician
Ellison-Macartney was born William Grey Ellison on June 7th, 1852 in Dublin, Ireland. In 1859, with Ellison-Macartney was seven, his father changed the family name to Ellison-Macartney as a condition of inheritance from a maternal uncle.
John Keiller MacKay – a Freemason, Canadian soldier and politician
ohn Keiller MacKay was a Freemason, Canadian soldier and politician.
MacKay was born on July 11th, 1888 in the village of Plainfield, Pictou County, Nova Scotia
What Is A Lewis?
Ken Allen took the chair at Lodge of True Friendship in order to Initiate his son, Christopher Lewis Allen.
More than 550 Freemasons and their partners celebrated raising over £2.5M for charity
The East Lancashire 2015 Festival for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution was launched in late 2009 and, despite a slow start, during the worst recession in living memory, the fund raising efforts culminated in the Festival Banquet.The Chief Executive of the RMBI, David Innis, announced the total: £ 2,628,436.12
Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men’s Health
The Freemason’s Foundation Centre for Men’s Health has been collaborating with Sally Fisher, Healthy Farmers Advisor with Primary Producers SA to produce a series of short videos that cover common men’s health problems like sleep apnoea, depression, prostate cancer, lower urinary tract symptoms, and erectile dysfunction