A Very Masonic Christmas Card Mailing in aid of the Masonic Charitable Foundation

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In a collaboration between the Masonic Charitable Foundation, the United Grand Lodge of England and Isle of Man Post Office.

The Isle of Man Post Office are delighted to offer all Lodges the opportunity to send their Christmas cards using the 300 Years of Freemasonry Stamp collection.

Freemasons donate £4000 to Boston Women’s Aid

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Boston Women’s Aid is proud to have been awarded £4,000 through the Masonic Charitable Foundation’s Tercentenary Community Awards – £3 million was given to 300 charities across the country to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the MCF. BWA is one of six Lincolnshire charities to receive grants; the only one in Boston or South Holland.

Historical Origins of the Mark Degree

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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.