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Freemason Mass

NY.Light

Registered User
The article has the bias you might expect of a traditional Catholic blog, but the pictures are real.
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
I'm just trying to imagine a Royal Arch chapel showing up at a mass with dress aprons.

Seems not much outside of routine to me. All of my jurisdictions have a program where lodges have activities that earn brownie points towards an award. In two of my jurisdictions having a lodge function attending a church service on either St John day is a brownie point in that program. We stand and get acknowledged during the announcement portion of the program. Having an appendent body do that in fancy dress is not much of an extension.
 

pointwithinacircle2

Rapscallion
Premium Member
My Lodge attends church services once a month as a group, wearing our aprons. We we attended various churches in our area. The WM talks with the church official in advance and explains who we are and why we would like to attend their service. We have had great results and the WM is often invited to the pulpit to explain what Freemasonry is all about.
 

dfreybur

Premium Member

The activity program has various names in various jurisdictions. In GLofTX it is the Vanguard program or similar name. In Illinois it is the Grand Master's Award of Excellence program is it gets an acronym. I don't recall the California acronym. The idea is to give an activity goal to lodges and a few levels of annual award based on lodge size. Get enough points and you get photographed on the GL floor receiving your form. The program is supposed to set up a friendly rivalry of which local lodges can do how many of the points. Everything from ritual certifications through marching in a town parade. Some lodges view it as a competition so they frown on the program. Of course these are the lodges that are less active.

GL Masonry was founded on St John Day in London in 1717 is it is natural that one of the points be a lodge group attendance at a local church on one of the St John days as one of the points. It teaches Masonic history and gives us visibility in the community. Two services with one act.

When I was in the east the two times in Illinois the brother who was my SD then my JW is Catholic. We decided to standardize on going as a group to his church the St John day that's in the summer. Much of the decision had to do with maintaining a PR presence in that part of the suburbs as our representation near there declined once we sold our building and started meeting in the next suburb over.
 
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