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The Rural Philanthropic Lodge of Freemasons 291 in Burnham-on-Sea raised £1146 at their recent Ladies Festival and Lodge of Instruction Demonstration and Luncheon. This money has been used to provide basic goods to the Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge Foodbank
The British Red Cross (BRC) at Taunton are the proud owners of a brand new Ambulance thanks to the Province of Somerset and the Freemasons Grand Charity. The ambulance, officially known as a ‘Patient Transport Vehicle’ is specifically designed to accommodate patients who require specialist transport to and from hospital.
Gordano Lodge donate £1,000 to worthy causes
Minehead Masonic Hall was the venue for the Exmoor Lodge No 2390 Charity Presentation Evening on Thursday 15th December.Worshipful Master, Garry Holman, was delighted to be able to celebrate his successful year as Master by personally handing the donations from the Lodge to representatives of his chosen local charities.
In December 2016 the Royal Somerset Lodge, a masonic lodge in Frome, presented the cheque to Karen Deverell, chief executive of Mendip YMCA.
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
Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge 14 December 2016 Report of the Board of General Purposes Minutes The Minutes of the Quarterly Communication of…
From the Grand Secretary Since emerging from the basement of Freemasons’ Hall, where I have been a charity president for the past nine years,…
Since emerging from the basement of Freemasons’ Hall, where I have been a charity president for the past nine years, to assume the appointment as Grand Secretary, I have felt very humbled by the numerous letters, emails and tweets of support and encouragement that I have received. I am most fortunate in having taken over a splendid team who are doing their best to train me and get me up to speed so that we can continue to provide you all with the help and support you both need and deserve.
For centuries Masonic historians have been puzzled by the motives for, and the purpose of, the formation of the craft of freemasonry, both in its operative, and speculative form, and whilst endeavouring to investigate the mysteries surrounding the formation of our order, it seems that the riddle actually forms itself into three distinct questions