Hey brother Vez.... Whatever you do, don't skip Senior Deacon. Best chair in the Lodge!
I'm Senior Deacon currently. Unfortunately, in my year, I was unable to do all three degrees.
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Hey brother Vez.... Whatever you do, don't skip Senior Deacon. Best chair in the Lodge!
I'm Inner Guard four times in my Sydney Lodge and they won't allow me to take the next level, because of too many corrupted mason controlling the lodge before the installation whoever choose to get to take office in there local lodge. I've been given the opportunities to be temporally Junior Warden inside another local lodge at the Grand Lodge of England which is great.
How often do you meet?In my lodge we barely have enough actively attending members to fill the seats and open. That's why I may need to skip a chair. I don't want to really.
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How often do you meet?
@Ferret619 too many master mason who serve their lodges for more than 10 to 20 years in NSW who never had the chance to get elected as worshipful master-elect to get the opportunities to the King Solomon chair, when a master mason take office as senior warden never got elected as worshipful master-elect.That's sad to hear speedy
My lodge meets monthly and we generally seem to always have something on which is great but there are 7 lodges in my aria and we travel abit so the option to do something weekly is there but as an EA my options are limited of cause.We are dark in July & August, but after that we meet twice a month. I wish it was more often. The lodge I was raised in met every week.
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That's a real shame, my current WM is amount the youngest in the lodge and there seems to be a lot of support, perhaps traveling to other lodges and considering dual membership in a lodge who looks for sharing the chair?@Ferret619 too many master mason who serve their lodges for more than 10 to 20 years in NSW who never had the chance to get elected as worshipful master-elect to get the opportunities to the King Solomon chair, when a master mason take office as senior warden never got elected as worshipful master-elect.
Because the worshipful master has the right to control who the next master mason takes the senior warden chair will get elected as worshipful master-elect, always keep this in mind when you become a master mason not very many get to take office in there local lodge when the worshipful master choose who take office before the next installation.
And this also happen a lot when each mason take office around the lodge room, and we keep going around in circle every year not many get to take junior warden and senior warden for many years.
That's phenomenal! Great work brother.My lodge hasn't had much work this year, but between Blue Lodge and York Rite obligations, I could be somewhere about five days a week if I wanted.
The year I was WM, we opened lodge 33 times - 12 stated meetings and 21 degree nights.
In my lodge we barely have enough actively attending members to fill the seats and open. That's why I may need to skip a chair. I don't want to really.
Man, that is sad my Brother. I only say not to skip it, because it truly prepares you for the East. The year I was Senior Deacon the WM told me one night about ten minutes before lodge started that he was handing me his gavel to open the lodge and run the meeting! Nearly wet myself, lol.
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You need to head up to my neck of the woods!Yeah, nothing like that happens here.
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Wow I'd love to pick your brain! That sounds fascinating, I was entered just over a month ago myselfRaised about 45 years ago. I got out of the habit of attending lodge over 30 years ago, mostly due to work requirements. I worked in a hospital and did not get off work early enough to attend lodge. I was raised in a Turkish Lodge in Izmir, Turkey back in 73, quite a different experience from the ceremony here.
Interesting how things change.Like I said it's been 45 years. As I remember the initiate was placed in a small room, dress was adjusted, I think upper torso bared but cannot remember exactly. I was sat down before a small table with I think a triangular cloth upon which was placed a human skull, a small pile of what looked like salt and I think a knife. The only thing I remember was sitting there for a while, then being blindfolded and led into the lodge. The ceremony was very calm and then all I can remember when the blindfold came off was all the members had huge swords pointed at me and the other entered apprentices.