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Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite


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The Lodge Room in Oxnard Masonic Center is now being used for our meetings, after months of cleanup and renovations.

Our next stated meeting will be on February 10, 2025.  The dinner menu will be

If you will be having dinner with us, please make a reservation with Illustrious Harold Bogner no later than Friday, February 7, by email to hbogner@smartsourcellc.com email, or by phone at (805) 218-1648 (leave a message).


At our September 2024 stated meeting we had a zoom meeting with Southern Jurisdiction Commander Illustrious James D. Cole, who spent about an hour with us going over recent changes made to the organization and how they are impacting our membership.  They are working on many interesting projects.  One of them is an online Scottish Rite petition (see below).  If you are a Master Mason in good standing and you desire to petition for our Scottish Rite degrees, you can use a smart cell-phone to take a picture of the QR Code below.  That will take you to an online application for the degrees.  (The cost is $200, which will be due after your election.  The yearly dues are $95.)


QR Code for Petition for

Scottish Rite Degrees


Venerable Master Salvador Lopez


 

      


Grand Commander's Statement on Grand Lodges
Grand Commander's Statement on Visitation
Memorial Service for James Craig

Mission Statement

It is the mission of the Ventura Valley of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry to improve its members and enhance our community by teaching and emulating the principles of Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth while actively embracing high social, moral, and spiritual values including fellowship, compassion, and dedication to God, family and country.

We achieve this mission by providing further enlightenment to our members through educational opportunities, our philanthropic efforts, and our involvement with the brethren of our Masonic lodges.


House of The Temple House of The Temple

The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is commonly known as the Scottish Rite. It is one of several appendant groups of the worldwide fraternity known as Freemasonry. Each Valley has up to four Scottish Rite bodies, and each body confers a set of degrees. In the Southern Jurisdiction these are the Lodge of Perfection (4° - 14°), Chapter of Rose Croix (15°-18°), Council of Kadosh (19°-30°), and the Consistory (31°-32°). The Supreme Council confers the 33rd Degree of Sovereign Grand Inspector General.

The Scottish Rite is one of the two major branches of higher-degree Freemasonry in which a Master Mason may proceed after he has completed the three degrees of Symbolic or Blue Lodge Masonry. The other branch is known as the York Rite, consisting of Royal Arch Masons, Royal and Select Masters and the Knights Templar.

The Scottish Rite Creed - "Human progress is our cause, liberty of thought our supreme wish, freedom of conscience our mission, and the guarantee of equal rights to all people everywhere our ultimate goal."

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Contact Valley of Ventura Scottish Rite

Oxnard Masonic Center
341 S. K Street
Oxnard, California

Secretary's Office
Newsletters and Correspondence
W. Andrew "Andy" Little, 33°
487 Appletree Avenue
Camarillo California 93012-5148
Tel: (805) 415-3776
Or (805) 484-5222
Email: vcscottishrite@gmail.com

Stated Meeting

Second Monday of Each Month 
(except July)
5:30 P.M., Social Hour
6:30 P.M., Dinner
7:15 P.M., Program
8:00 P.M., Stated Meeting

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