Latest
Newsletter (November 2023)
At our November 13 stated meeting we welcomed our newest members into our Valley: Tony Thomas, Gary Adkinson, and Ruben Cabrera (who was unable to make it due to an emergency). The officers did a Cap and Ring Ceremony for our new members.
Our next stated meeting
will be December 11 at the Masonic Center in
Oxnard. Dinner will be at 6:30
PM. We will be making a 50-year Presentation
to Brother Rob Frost. That will be followed
by our stated meeting. The business will
include electing our officers for next year.
Because of the asbestos problems all the
activities that evening 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 Illustrious Harold Bogner no later than Friday, December 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, as well as plans for our
RiteCare clinic, and plans for next year.
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."