Promoting the Fraternity across the World
During the evening at the Roderick Hill Ladies night held at Chepstow Masonic Hall on 6th Feb, a cheque for £1500 raised by the Brethren was presented to Ms Catrin Hall, the Wales Air Ambulance Community Coordinator for the South East by W. Bro. Mike Wightman. Congratulations to the Lodge members for their hard work raising such a sum for a truly worthwhile cause.
This will be a really exciting meeting with the Installation of a new DPGM W. Bro. Thomas Quinn, two new APGMs W. Bro. Clifford Sturt and W. Bro. Timothy…
A Glimpse into The World of James Bond, 007 He’s everybody’s favourite Secret Agent. James Bond, 007, Licensed to Kill. Created by Ian Fleming and…
The New Lahore Indian restaurant in Newport donated around 50% of the value of food ordered to our charity and didn’t they do well! Pictured are the…
Lifelites Lifelites but it is a charity that started as part of the Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys. They supply IT equipment to all the…
Grand Charity donates £666,500 The Freemasons’ Grand Charity has donated grants totalling £666,500 to 17 charities. MAJOR GRANTS 11…
A very big thank you to everyone who took part in the 2015 Christmas Charity Quiz – you helped raise many hundreds of pounds for 2019 Festival…
In 1783, Casanova met Benjamin Franklin in Paris. Franklin was not the only prominent man and mason that he would meet in his second round of travels. He would also meet Voltaire who he would eventually get into a philosophical battle with. He would also meet Mozart. At the time Casanova met Mozart, Mozart was composing his opera Don Giovanni, which was essentially like holding up a mirror to Casanova’s life. It is unknown how Casanova reacted to seeing what was essentially his life being shown as immoral, it is claimed that Casanova wrote lines for Don Giovanni but they were not used.
The Freemason is taught in the course of the First Degree that the Mallet is an important instrument of labour without which no work of manual skill can…
Edinburgh Register House MS 1696.txt Knoop, D; Jones, G P; Hamer, D;The Early Masonic Catechisms,Manchester University Press (1963)Second Edition, pp…