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If you're allowed to, change it up from time to time. Minnesota only has suggested opening and closing prayers, so the chaplain can use other, appropriate prayers. Here's a good source: http://www.masonicsites.org/blue/Masonicprayers.htm

They can only use it if their Grand Lodge allows it. Some will allow it as long as it's done before Lodge is opened, and it's not part of any official ceremony. Some absolutely prohibit it.

It's my understanding that very few American Grand Lodges use the Chamber, and that some specifically forbid it.

Brothers have already recommended Zulu Tattoo in L.A.. http://www.zulutattoo.com/ as a brother who does excellent work. I don't know about the Grand Lodge of California, but in Minnesota the symbols are considered monitorial, not esoteric. They're fully explained in plain language in the...

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If he was truly a brother in distress, and you found him worthy and contributed as liberally to his relief as you could without inconvenience to yourself, you've lived up to your obligation. I hope you can trust him to repay, but I don't know him or his circumstances. Even if he doesn't, you did...

As it should be. Our dues are less than men spend on coffee, but nothing gets people more upset than proposing to raise dues. A brother once asked "when are we going to stop raising dues?" I answered "when the property taxes, heating bills, electric bills, insurance costs, etc. stop going up."...

Minnesota has a cipher book, and we give one to all new MMs. Sent from my Nexus 7 using My Freemasonry mobile app

In Minnesota, nobody wears their "raising apron" that they're given. They put that away to keep it spotless for their eventual funeral. They wear the tired cloth aprons from the tyler's station. We're permitted to buy nice MM or PM aprons, but hardly anybody does.

My "go to" recommendation is "Cracking the Freemasons' Code: The Truth About Solomon's Key and the Brotherhood" by Robert L.D. Cooper. It's a very logical step from the Dummies and Idiots books, but doesn't contain any "spoilers" for the degrees. I highly recommend it.

Thanks brother. It does work on my tablet. I'll watch it when I have a half hour to concentrate. Sent from my Nexus 7 using My Freemasonry mobile app

Which then discourages the brethren from purchasing a nice Master Mason apron of their own, and they go back to wearing the tired, worn, frayed and grimy cloth aprons from the stack at the tyler's station. Sigh.

Still doesn't work for me; maybe because I'm trying on a regular computer and the link is to a mobile site?

Yes, I misread it. It was referring to Past Masters from other jurisdictions who join an English Constitution lodge, not merely visit. It says they may not wear the PM apron of the other jurisdiction, but may wear the PM apron of the UGLE with the three levels, but may not wear the collar of...

I got a message that said "video can't be played because file is corrupted."

That's interesting, because I read the The Square Magazine that UGLE regulations specify that foreign visitors to UGLE lodges MUST wear UGLE regalia, and cannot wear their own if it doesn't conform. My Past Master apron does not have the levels of a UGLE PM, it has the square, quadrant and...

Steve Butterfield in Sioux Falls, SD, is a brother. http://www.alienandco.com/

It may not be necessary to go through the degrees again. We had a man who had been raised in a PHA military lodge overseas while working for a military contractor. He moved to our town, and the nearest PHA lodge is in the Twin Cities, 80-90 miles away. He contacted us, and the guidance we got...

Minnesota prohibits alcohol only in the actual Lodge room. Elsewhere in the building is okay. We go downstairs to our lounge after lodge and have a couple of beers all the time.

If they're anything like my Lodge, the telephone answering machine can go unchecked for a long time, and then it might be checked by an Eastern Star who will accidentally erase it and forget to tell anybody. I'd use the email link on their web page and ask if it would be possible to meet with...