Warrior1256
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Well, tonight will be my first meeting of my mother lodge (St. Matthews 906) that I serve as Master. I am as prepared as I can possibly be but must admit that I am a little nervous. Wish me luck!
I have zero doubt you will be great! If you make a mistake... just blame it on the S.S.Well, tonight will be my first meeting of my mother lodge (St. Matthews 906) that I serve as Master. I am as prepared as I can possibly be but must admit that I am a little nervous. Wish me luck!
I didn’t immediately go masonic with the SS initials...I have zero doubt you will be great! If you make a mistake... just blame it on the S.S.
Well, tonight will be my first meeting of my mother lodge (St. Matthews 906) that I serve as Master. I am as prepared as I can possibly be but must admit that I am a little nervous. Wish me luck!
Congratulations Brother.Tonight is a first for me too. I finally was voted favorable and affiliated with the lodge here in Fairport, NY and tonight is the night I sign the book, hand them a check and sit on the sides.
Sound advice. Thank you Brother.We say in the Installation to look well to the East. When you're there, it means to look well to next year's East. Now that you've done a Stated meeting one of your projects is to build up the skills of the Brothers in your line. Working face to face one Brother at a time helps reduce the feeling of pressure from that hat. That hat weighs tons when it's one the head, yet when we take it off, it's just a hat.
Lol...will do.Welcome to the East. You'll be fine. Breathe. In. Hold it a few seconds. Out. Wait a few seconds. Nice slow deep breaths.
lolI have zero doubt you will be great! If you make a mistake... just blame it on the S.S.
Well, tonight will be my first meeting of my mother lodge (St. Matthews 906) that I serve as Master. I am as prepared as I can possibly be but must admit that I am a little nervous. Wish me luck!
The first time I wore the hat was a first degree the first time I was JW. The first time I wore the hat in a Stated meeting was when the Brother ahead of me in the line was out on business travel late in the year the first time I was SW. As such my first Stated meeting after Installation I'd already experienced my first times wearing the hat.
In my lodge the those that can open / close the lodge and conduct business are the WM, SW, JW or a Past Master...in that order.Just a quick question, are you allowed to sit in the Master's chair as a warden and open/close the lodge and conduct business in your jurisdiction? Here only an Installed Master can sit in the chair.
Just a quick question, are you allowed to sit in the Master's chair as a warden and open/close the lodge and conduct business in your jurisdiction? Here only an Installed Master can sit in the chair.
the Ceremonies of Opening and Closing the Lodge;
the Ceremony of Initiation down to the end of the entrustment of the candidate with the secrets of the degree;
the Ceremony of Passing (including the test questions and the subsequent entrustment) down to the end of the entrustment of the candidate with the secrets of the degree;
the Ceremony of Raising (including the test questions and the subsequent entrustment) down to the end of the main part of the Ceremony, the Traditional History (but not necessarily the explanation of the Tracing Board) and the communication of the full secrets;
the entire Ceremony of Installation, including the three Addresses, but excluding the Working Tools.
Scoops, in our jurisdiction in Indiana, only three people can open a lodge (they must be duly elected officers of that lodge) Worshipful Master, Senior Warden, Junior Warden, in that order. A past master may not open, but if a Warden had to open due to the absence of the WM, he can turn it over to a PM, But the Warden would have to be back in the east to close the lodge.Just a quick question, are you allowed to sit in the Master's chair as a warden and open/close the lodge and conduct business in your jurisdiction? Here only an Installed Master can sit in the chair.