Can anyone point me in the right direction. I'm looking to find some old and maybe forgotten readings or lectures such as how the provincial stewards apron became red etc. I was wondering if anyone can help me find some material? I'm a newly installed master and want to find something I can use as a "part piece"
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Lectures and readings
- Thread starter lownzy
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I didn't think you had Provincial Stewards in America??
You could start with this: http://grandstewards.org/History.aspx
You might also find it helpful to have a look at some UGLEcentric stuff, try the forum in my sig. file.
You might also find it helpful to have a look at some UGLEcentric stuff, try the forum in my sig. file.
dfreybur
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Many GLs publish a Monitor that contains parts of the ritual written out. Many GLs publish a ritual book that contains most of the ritual written out with the tiny amount that is secret blanked out or replaced with underscores. These books do get reissued every so often as jurisdictions change their ritual. Finding old books from other jurisdictions can be a fun task in itself to those brothers who like scholarly or antiquarian pursuits.
Done as a Masonic Education agenda item at a Stated meeting that does not include a degree, such a reading does not count as ritual. As such it is allowed to read (degree opened on qualified) items from obsolete or foreign ritual when identified as such. Reciting ritual as Masonic Education gets old very fast. I suggest you do it very selectively.
Illinois example - Over time Illinois has lost all but one prayer for opening and two for closing. Illinois has also lost one of the three prayers used in the degree sections. During the Masonic Education agenda item at a Stated meeting prayers that are in common use can be recited.