New England Summer Picnic Details
Our next stated meeting
will be June 12 at the Masonic Center in
Oxnard. Dinner will be at 6:30
PM. Because of the asbestos problems the
stated meeting will be held in the dining
room.
We hope that you can join us for dinner. The menu will be:
If you will be having dinner with us, please make a reservation with Sir Knight Harold Bogner no later than Friday, June 9, by email at hbogner@smartsourcellc.com email, or by phone at (805) 218-1648 (leave a message).
The
Remembrance and Renewal program was held at
Ventura Masonic Center and was well attended
despite the problems with moving on short
notice to a new location.
Grand
Commander's Statement on Grand Lodges
Grand
Commander's Statement on Visitation
Memorial
Service for James Craig
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."