Recent content by Nickel City Dude

I only offered this as a solution to a re-accouring poblem, I never expected to get so beat up over this. I will no longer post here. Good buy.

And I agree also, but we do not live in a perfect world and sometimes we have to make do with what we have. In a perfect world the apron is always there but this is not always the case. So we have to make things as good as possible with what we have available. A look alike apron that can be...

In New York State after you are installed as Master of your lodge you receive the title Worshipful Master when you complete your year as Master of the Lodge you retain the title of Worshipful Brother and are designated as a Past Master. You also receive a Past Masters apron that is white, blue...

Because I will not see the Brothers that gave me this information I did some research on my own. I could not find refernace to the "grave robber" seniaro I did find referance to placing the apron on the coffin in the book Our Stations and Places by Henry Meacham on page 85.

Good question, Brother. I will ask the Brothers that told me about this when I see them next month. I Googled the legend and did not get any results one way of the other.

Sorry Brother but I do not understand the question.

Legends are like that; they do not always appear in all areas of the country and not everyone knows all there is to Masonry. Case in point, I have 35 years in Masonry, and this is the first time I have heard about this. I cannot say that this is true because I was not there, but I would like to...

I don't understand what you mean. The legend dates back to the 1700's which is well before 1872.

I went to our County Ritual School of Instruction meeting last night and spoke to the brothers present about the funeral apron and the solution I came up with. Every one that spoke at the meeting on the subject were very much positive about my solution. And all agreed that if the real Lambskin...

Like I said, I am going to discuss this with some other brothers in my Lodge and see what they think. If you want, I will return here and let you know what I found out. We have our next meeting next Wednesday.

Againe I cannot disagree with you to a point. For the 35 years I have been a Mason my lodge has never addressed this issue. At many of the funerals that I have attended there has been the problem of the relatives of the deceased Brother not knowing about or being able to find his apron. After...

I cannot disagree with what you say but the reality is "money talks". And I could pretty much guarantee that almost no one attending the service would be able to tell the difference.

Winter, I agree with you but for some reason the Lodge is not willing to spend the money to supply real Lambskin aprons for this use. In a way I understand it. The Lambskin is just a symbol, the funeral service itself is paying due respect to a departed Brother. Using a real Lambskin apron...

In NY our PM aprons can only be white, silver and blue. Purple is reserved for Grand Lodge offices and Fringe for Grand Masters and past Grand Masters.

I have been a Mason for over 35 years and many time when I attend a masonic funeral the widow or decedents of our departed brother were unable to find his Lambskin apron or did not know that it was needed. So most funeral homes have a Lambskin that they allow us to use for the service but then...