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I have been telling people, esp Lodge Secs, that COVID-19 is a chance for Freemasonry to shine. Early in COVID, I heard of members dropping groceries to people who could not get them, recently, it's been visits to homes to show the tech challenged how to get on zoom... but Food. When times are...
Reading the replies, who has the responsibility for disseminating informality ? The GL, Lodge, or mentors and proposers or does indeed the responsibility rest with the newer Freemason, to take charge of your own Masonic Journey once a Master Mason ?
Thanks - interesting comments. Discussion on this has almost become akin to the same passion of extreme ideologies, but really, what's at work is math and the mysteries of nature and science unfolding. People seem to forget that its the scientific method which needs to be applied, not spin...
I agree that the stats and tests themselves are flawed.
But think on this, something which has been around for decades
"How accurate are home pregnancy tests?
Many home pregnancy tests claim to be 99 percent accurate. However, home pregnancy tests differ in the ability to diagnose...
There are people who politicize the pandemic, let's not do that here, and if means not speaking about it, then let's not speak about it. We're all going to have different views and we either need to accept that not treat it masoncially like religion and politics.
However, on a zoom call this...
Nit sure about the status of a Masonic Funeral or Cornerstone here, but our Grand Lodge opens in "Ample Form". I always wondered what that meant and found my answer in our Constitution;
92. Grand Lodge is declared open in ample form when the Grand Master or Pro Grand Master presides, in due...
Thanks Bro Glen
Thanks for the quote from Mackey.
The comment around Dermott made here https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/masons_at_sight.html was interesting;
"The form of the expression "making Masons at sight" is borrowed from Laurence Dermott, the Grand Secretary of the Atholl Grand Lodge...
Bro Glen. I would be grateful if you could define what in your opinion is "an occasional lodge".
The first time I met the term is in relation to Freemasons meeting on the Goldfields in the 1850's ( a different time) here in Victoria to convey degrees. They did not have a warrant. They had no...