Welcome To Ventura Valley,

Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite


Latest Newsletter (September 2023)

Latest News From The Valley   

  

On September 9 two of our members will be honored.  Sir Knight Harold Bogner will receive the 33 Degree while Brother Roy Price will be created a Knight Commander of the Court of Honor (KCCH).  The ceremonies will take place at Long Beach Scottish Rite.  Congratulations to these two outstanding Scottish Rite Masons.

Our next stated meeting will be September 11 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, September 8, by email at hbogner@smartsourcellc.com email, or by phone at (805) 218-1648 (leave a message).

We will be discussing the progress on the building repairs, on needed repairs to our Conex boxes, and plans for the rest of the year.  

      


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 and August)
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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