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I heard someone in our lodge make some pretty horrible comments about another brother that he presumed to be one of the above but I just chalked it up to an old man talking. Same as any other brother.

That was a very cool and well produced video. Thank you for the link.

Is the legacy Texas Masonry or a building? I will fully admit that we may not be able to find a buyer for the building, but why must we maintain such a stupendous edifice? Apparently we aren't able to maintain it to the degree it should be maintained. Don't see why we couldn't have a much more...

I like the article on page 64 and 65, interesting history and makes you think how things might have turned out differently.

Can you explain this further, as you understand it. You have to have every light in the room on during a degree? Or once the degree is started you leave the switches alone? There is a big difference between the 2 and I just want to make sure I understand what you think you heard (this sounds...

Ugh. teach me not to look at my monitor more often!

So where do things like the bible presentation (or lack thereof) fall? Is that an undocumented (please point out if it is documented), optional item? And if we allow the bible presentation and its various versions, and I have no problem with it, then why does the CoR cause such apparent...

Its not like the ritual has not changed over the years. I know. It just takes some changing of the guard for new ideas to be allowed.

Not sure how to say this nicely, but I frankly don't care about that. Does the CoR add to or subtract from what the candidate experiences in the degrees? I would argue that we have seen that it certainly doesn't subtract and appears to add to it, building up some anticipation and causing the...

We have 2 brothers in our lodge that are from Fredericksburg Lodge #4, http://masoniclodge4.org/, the mother lodge of George Washington. That lodge still has the bible that George Washington took his obligations on, an original Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington (same picture from the...

http://www.nbmasoniclodge1109.org/index.php/upcoming-events/72-bbq-2013 Our annual BBQ & Raffle is this Saturday at First United Methodist Church in New Braunfels, 572 W. San Antonio. Hope to see you there!

I agree that it should be codified somehow, I just don't know where to start. Ours resembles some of what you find when you google it, with much of the same items. Yep, it seems to add to the degree for the new brother. I just don't know who to pester first, Commitee on Masonic Education and...

Our lodge has had what what we have referred to as a Chamber of Reflection for going on a year now. We have various decorations in it, quite the improvement from our old preparation room which is where the extra stuff, old linens, boxes, chairs were stored in addition to sometimes being used for...

Texas monthly says millions. That building to me is kinda like the old stuff that shows up on Pawn Stars. A lot of it is 'really neat', but its also worthless because noone will pay for it. If you make it into a museum, it has to have a) content and b) some way of paying the bills.

I don't know about restoring the entire building, but I would kill for this stained glass window:

Que? I'm with you on the latter 2 points, but reduce dues? Like it or not, the rent has to get paid and the power bill has to be paid. If we don't increase dues, how are we going to pay our bills? Rely on the community to buy a BBQ plate a couple of times a year? We need to take care of our own...

One of the ones I remember liking was we read a short bio of each Past Master and also had them stand up and tell us what they remembered from their time in the east and what they learned or did.

This is a problem. Who are the official JD and SD and why are they not there? Was the time/attendance requirement not fully understood or explained? We've seemingling also had this problem with about 1 chair a year but I think we are finally addressing that if you are an officer, your attendance...

We've been blessed lately with a large group of candidates. We initiated 5 in January and there will be 1 next Tuesday and I think we have 2 or 3 more that are currently being investigated. Every one of these new brothers, and even the ones who are currently being investigated, has jumped in and...

Currently Senior Steward and as such provide meals for all stated and called meetings and special functions. I think I'm cooking meals 3 Tuesdays this month for stated meeting and degrees, last week leveled our cornerstone and provided food for ~200 and this Saturday we are having our Widows'...