hanzosbm
Premium Member
While my question could easily pertain to either York or Scottish Rite, I'm leaning toward YR so I thought I'd ask the question here.
How much time and energy is expected to be spent once a Mason joins an appendant body? I'm fairly newly married, my wife and I are looking to start a family and I work quite a bit. As it is, I'm the SW elect for my blue lodge, which means 2 meetings a month (stated meeting and Officer School of Instruction), which is pretty close to my wife's comfort level regarding time spent. As my blue lodge is quite small, I can reasonably expect to be an officer for more years than not, so this time commitment is likely to stay the same.
Aside from simply going through the degrees, what is the typical time commitment for the appendant bodies? Monthly meetings? More? Study time for proficiencies similar to blue lodge? Are the appendant bodies typically hurting for officers (i.e., will they be begging me to sit in a chair) as badly as blue lodge are? And if somehow I had a momentary lapse of sanity of volunteered for another office, is there as much memorization as there is in the first 3 degrees?
I'm feeling the itch a bit, but I'd like to get an idea of what I'm getting myself into.
How much time and energy is expected to be spent once a Mason joins an appendant body? I'm fairly newly married, my wife and I are looking to start a family and I work quite a bit. As it is, I'm the SW elect for my blue lodge, which means 2 meetings a month (stated meeting and Officer School of Instruction), which is pretty close to my wife's comfort level regarding time spent. As my blue lodge is quite small, I can reasonably expect to be an officer for more years than not, so this time commitment is likely to stay the same.
Aside from simply going through the degrees, what is the typical time commitment for the appendant bodies? Monthly meetings? More? Study time for proficiencies similar to blue lodge? Are the appendant bodies typically hurting for officers (i.e., will they be begging me to sit in a chair) as badly as blue lodge are? And if somehow I had a momentary lapse of sanity of volunteered for another office, is there as much memorization as there is in the first 3 degrees?
I'm feeling the itch a bit, but I'd like to get an idea of what I'm getting myself into.