Promoting the Fraternity across the World
The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts awards scholarships based primarily on each applicant’s academic achievement, financial need, and broad participation in community and school activities. Since beginning the scholarship program in 1995, Massachusetts Freemasons have distributed more than $8 million to enable full time, undergraduate attendance at accredited educational institutions.
The Largs Masonic Lodge is celebrating its 250th anniversary with a series of special events on Saturday August 5. It is perhaps one of the oldest running institutions in Largs running back to 1767, and to commemorate the special event, there will be a parade through Largs town centre starting at the lodge in Frazer Street at 10.30am, followed by a church service at St John’s.
Eminent Freemason Thomas W. Jackson, meets leaders all over the world to see what contributions Freemasonry can make in their developing societies. The 82-year-old shows no signs of stopping, even though he says he is retired.
The avid fisherman and hunter said he’s been working for many years in trying to bring Brazilian Freemasonry together.
The annals of the work of the freemasons are filled with many worthy deeds, each performed in the spirit of the fraternity that has been inspired since the order was first established long ago in 1717 when the first Grand Lodge of England was formed in London. Personal growth and social betterment via individual involvement and philanthropy have been the guiding lights of the stonemason guilds that have survived through the ensuing centuries.
The Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons Renovations
The Grand Lodge of Scotland is in advanced negotiations with BBC Scotland about creating a high end documentary. Charting the history and development of Scottish Freemasonry from 1598 to present day
Ari Roussimoff gave a showing his newest Masonic painting at the Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library of the Grand Lodge of New York.
Lodge St. John Jedburgh No. 104 – 250th Anniversary
Trustees of the Mark Benevolent Fund were delighted to approve a grant of £107,628 to St Oswald’s Hospice in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
