This evening I visited Westminster Lodge in the Province of Cheshire.
I have been visiting Westminster Lodge on and off for almost 20 years now (I first visited their December white table event 20 years ago this December). A good friend of mine, who I was working with at the time joined Westminster Lodge a year before I joined Llannerch Lodge (Both of us joined in February) and we worked our way up the ladder together. So I would visit his Lodge and he would visit mine, We went into the chairs of our Lodges a year apart, then both went back into the chair of our new Lodges 10 years after going in for the first time.
So when Pete informed me he was visiting his mother lodge on the 20th anniversary of his initiation, and that they were doing a demonstration of an initiation, and that he was going to act as the candidate, I had to attend. Because he joined before me, he got to see my initiation but I missed his, so 20 years later I got to see it.
A couple of weeks before the meeting, I received the sad news that Pete’s father had passed to the Grand Lodge above, Westminster being John’s Lodge they would have a small memorial to him on the night of their next meeting, which happened to be Pete’s anniversary. This gave two very good and big reasons to attend.
So I collected my father who had met John several times, and another member of Wrexhamian Lodge to go visit. I tried to get more to attend, but Hugh got food poisoning, and Henk’s work went mad so he could not get away early enough (He works in the medical field). But the three of us turned up to show our respects to John. It was a very moving, sad, but enjoyable evening.
RIP. John Maguire
Update Count:- Attended/Total
18/19 – Meetings
6/6 – Visits
12/13 – Rehearsals
4/4 – Committee
1/1 – Group Meeting
2/3 – AGM’s
Masonic Halls – 9
Freemasonry (Craft)
One of the oldest social and charitable organisations in the world, Freemasonry's roots lie in the traditions of the medieval stonemasons who built our cathedrals and castles.
It is here that a number of the famous elements of Freemasonry find their roots. In the medieval era, stonemasons often travelled around to find work in different locations. To demonstrate their level of qualification, they would use grips, words and signs in order to distinguish themselves from unqualified builders.
Freemasonry uses building analogies to teach members how to lead productive lives that benefit the communities that they live in. In the medieval era, stonemasons wore aprons and gloves to protect themselves while working on shaping rough pieces of stone, but in today’s society Freemasons meet to build friendships and communities rather than cathedrals and castles.