The Masonic year tends to run from September until June, with July and August being our summer break. There are of course exceptions to every rule, and we do have the occasional summer meeting, but the majority runs September-June. This coming year looks like it could be a busy year for me.
I have therefore decided to blog a record of all my meetings this year, to give people an idea of what a busy Masonic year is like. I should point out that, this will be as I have already stated a busy year for me, and the average commitment to Freemasonry is a lot less than what I will be recording. I just imagined it may be of interest to some people. There are a lot of Freemasons who without visiting just have around eight meetings, and eight rehearsals a year.
So come along with me on a journey.
![TYoaBM[2] – End of the year](https://wayne-owens.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TYOBM-General.png)
The masonic year has ended! So the second year of a a busy Mason has come to an end, and how busy did it turn out to be? Well I went to 42 meetings of which 10 were visits across 13 Masonic Halls. I attended 16 rehearsals, 9 committee meetings, 4...
![TYoaBM[2] – The Last Committee Meeting of the Year](https://wayne-owens.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/TYOBM-Craft.png)
Today was my last Masonic event of the Masonic Year. It was the Maesgwyn Lodge of Installed Masters committee meeting, where we needed to sort out the officers for next year, and work out who is doing what for the installation meeting. It was a...
![TYoaBM[2] – The Last Meeting of the Year](https://wayne-owens.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/TYOBM-SRIA.png)
Today was my last meeting of the year. And is a strange similarity it was Clwyd College which also happened to be the first meeting of the Masonic Year. Tonight, was going to be the end of "The Year of a Busy Mason", on paper it looked as if I...
Today was the Vault of the Adepts (Second Order) meeting for the Province of Western Counties and North Wales. We have one Second Order meeting a year, normally in Macclesfield Masonic Hall, but due to several reasons we were unable to hold the...
![TYoaBM[2] – Swords, Wine and Roses](https://wayne-owens.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/TYOBM-RoseCroix.png)
This evening it was the meeting of Valle Crucis Chapter. It was a very enjoyable evening, with two new candidates along with two joining members. Our Chapter is growing at a great speed at the moment, and I hope we can keep it up. The meeting...
This evening it was the Rehearsals of Valle Crucis Chapter. It was also a glorious evening, with the sun shining. I mention this as it is an important point, since we had to wait outside the Maesgwyn hall for 30 minutes as we tried to call some...
![TYoaBM[2] – The End of an Era](https://wayne-owens.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/TYOBM-RoyalArch.png)
Today was the Installation meeting of Wynnstay Chapter, it was also my final meeting at Wynnstay Chapter. I have been a member of Wynnstay for just over 18 years, and in that time I have only ever missed one meeting. And that once was due to the...
Today was the meeting of Rhodri Fawr Rose Croix Chapter. Rhodri Fawr moves around for its May meeting, and this year we were in the Hawarden Masonic Hall. Hawarden has to be one of my favourite halls because two of its rooms are a museum of...
Today is the Wynnstay Chapter Installation rehearsals. For some unknown reason, the rehearsals got moved from 7pm to 2pm at short notice. It does free up my Friday evening, but on the downside all of us who work can not make it. Hopefully enough...
This evening was Bishop Wilkins College's Meeting. It was the first outing of our New Chief Adept, and as such we decided to march him in with the Provincial Officers, to make it a big deal. Because of this we had a load of visitors, and the room...