Masonic Learning During The Pandemic There's a phrase from the Charge After Initiation that instructs the candidate to endeavour to make a daily advancement in Masonic knowledge. People often ask what exactly does this mean? and how do you learn something new every day? For new Masons, the problem is often that there is so … Continue reading Making A Daily Advancement

Restart Coming Soon We're as relieved as I'm sure you are, to see that the threat from Covid is diminishing. Assuming the government plans are correct, we'll be able to get back to Masonic business again from 21st June with unrestricted numbers. Many Lodges are already getting back into the swing with restricted numbers of … Continue reading Getting Back To Masonic Business

Hope you're staying safe during the latest Lockdown. This is a quick review blog to let you know what the Lodge has been up to over the past 6 months. I haven’t written a blog post for some months – for obvious reasons. So today I thought I would give you a quick summary of … Continue reading Lockdown Catch-up

Farnham, here we come Happy news, we have now confirmed our move to Farnham Masonic Centre. Province has given their blessing to us moving permanently to Farnham, after a lot of work behind the scenes by our Bro. Secretary;  We won't however, be holding any more meetings in the Bisley temple due to timing and … Continue reading Moving to Farnham Confirmed

Update - It's Been A While In this Lodge Update, I wanted to go over the news of our potential relocation and what's happened since my last Lodge Update in May;  Unfortunately, we were unable to come to an arrangement with the NRA about the future leasing of the temple building that is home to … Continue reading Lodge Update

Far-Reaching Benevolence and Charity are two important aspects of Freemasonry, as every new-made Mason learns. Although we don’t try to downplay our charitable work, it’s not always well publicized either. So I wanted to highlight a few things that I have come across recently that you might find interesting; The Metropolitan lodges in London donated … Continue reading Charity

I had planned to write a post about visiting other Lodges some weeks ago. It's going to be difficult to visit right now as there is no Masonic activity at the moment, but life has to go on, at least to some degree. I hope that you are all staying safe and well. Variety, the … Continue reading Visiting Other Lodges

Learning and Instruction Formal Masonic meetings involve a certain amount of performance or ‘ritual’ as it is known. So how do new people get to learn these rituals? The answer is at a Lodge of Instruction. A Lodge of Instruction (or LofI), also often called a Class of Instruction, is an informal meeting where parts … Continue reading Masonic Lodge Of Instruction

Organising Lodges may organize themselves in different ways in the running of the Lodge. At Oak Tree, the Lodge of Instruction immediately following a Lodge Meeting is dedicated as a committee meeting. I’ll explain more about LofI in a future post. Although our committee has a defined list of attendees (WM, Sec, Treas, SW, JW, … Continue reading Lodge Committee

Is a Masonic Blog of Interest? I have pondered the idea of writing a blog since starting this site up 18 months ago. I wondered whether a Masonic blog would be interesting. Would anyone read it? and would be worthwhile? Today, I've decided that I would start my Masonic blog and see, and there's a … Continue reading A Fresh Start