Promoting the Fraternity across the World
For those WMs and Wardens who haven’t replied yet, I would like to invite you to attend the 2016 WM and Wardens Conference, which is to be held at: The Uxbridge Masonic Centre, Western House, 4a Hercies Road, Hillingdon, Middlesex UB10 9NA on Saturday 17th September 2016, commencing at 10.00AM. Coffee and registration will be from 9.30AM.
Freemason Grand Master for the United Grand Lodge of Queensland, Alan Townson, installs Cecil Hamley as the new Master of Nambour. John McCutcheon
IT’S his second time in the hot seat, but Cecil Hamley is not taking lightly his induction as Worshipful Master of the Freemasons’ Nambour Lodge.
“It’s still an experience, a new one,” he told the Daily before the Grand Master for the United Grand Lodge of Queensland, Alan Townson, placed him on the chair of King Solomon at Nambour Masonic Centre yesterday.
The annual golf day of St Martins Lodge, Birmingham was held at Shirley Golf Club. 20 members of the lodge played on the day and the Lodge Trophy was won by the current Master of the Lodge, Malcolm Francis. The competition for the Lodge Trophy has been played every year since 1948. W Bro Michael Gregory, the Lodge Treasurer won the Chapter Trophy.
Brethren, I have recently received a couple of Masonic enquiries from Irish Brethren wishing to learn about the form of The Masonic Funeral service, that used to be conducted under the auspices of The Grand Lodge of Ireland. Having now had a look into the background and history of the Funeral Service, I thought that it might be of interest to you all, to have some details on this important aspect of Irish tradition from our earliest days.
A sporting clay pigeon shoot in aid of Wales Air Ambulance at Haimwood Shooting Ground on 16th July raised £1910
WM of 1084 lodge of MMM, Howard Morgan, presented a cheque for this amount to a representative of Wales Air Ambulance, at their HQ at Welshpool airport, on Monday 25th July.
I have often wondered at parts of our ritual which have no ready explanation, nor any forthcoming, and which are routinely committed to memory and recited when called upon to do so. One such is “The Perfect Points of Entrance” that demonstrate proof of being a Freemason.
Mr David Eager of The Surrey Masonic Sports Association, has been awarded the Order of Mercy, a prestigious medal, for his voluntary service over many years to charities and non profit organisations in the United Kingdom and overseas.
The emerging of freemasonry in China in the 18th century has been reported a British invention, coming from the historical conflict, the Opium War, that involve Great Britain and China in a dispute about the trading routes in the Eastern Chinese coast and commerce of the narcotic product among the Chinese population.
Harlow Talking Newspaper enjoyed their own happy headline when the organisation was presented with a large donation.
Born in Salzburg on 27th January 1756, he was baptized the following day at St. Ruperts Cathedral as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Theophilus means ‘beloved of God’ and Mozart later used the Latin form Amadeus, -stylized sometimes as Amade or Amadeo- or the German form Gottlieb. His father, Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was born in Augsburg in Bavaria, where the Mozart family can be traced back to the 14thCentury