Rob427W
Registered User
I asked to be on the ritual and advisory board for this year.
We discuss more on the porch of the lodge after a meeting than we do during a meeting.
The more I speak about masonry outside of lodge the more I discover that it is not about putting on an apron and sitting in a room.
It is about the interactions with your Brethren outside of a stated meeting that makes masonry work for the individual. You have to find those who love talking about the Craft. Grab on and get as much as you can out of them. Everything you need to start out as a MM is in your rituals. Learn them for your foundation and go from there.
Yes, it is nice to meet everyone and socialize before and after a meeting but it should not stop there. Those interactions should happen more than once or twice a month.
I'm not saying you should dump your life long non mason friends but you should make it a point to have a beer with those you fit in with the best to keep those ties tight.
That is the issue today though. Our lives are so hectic and fast that I have to put my masonic schedules on my Google calendar and sync it to my wife's account so she knows the five W's for the month. Getting out for socialization outside of stated meetings is tough.
Look at us here and now. We use a forum to communicate and seek out each other. Some of us post on multiple masonic forums for that connection because we do not have what our fathers and grandfathers had...Time...
How many Masons here find that they use this and other forums to try to fill the gaps that you seem to be left with from your own lodge?
I'm not embarrassed to say I'm one of those Masons.
I am certainly one of them. The lodge where I am a FC at is rather social in nature, and likely not willing to hear about the educational, let alone the esoteric, aspects of Masonry. I don't think it will be that way for a very long time, if ever.
It is high on ladder of possibilities that my wife and I will move back to Central PA within the next year or two. When we move, I'd like to find a lodge that is very interested in Masonic Education.