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Greetings! Hope all are doing well. We had our 40th annual Sweetheart luncheon on Feb-ruary 20th. Thanks to our SW Br, Oscar and to all the other Officers who made it a special day for our Widows and wives, nothing but praise from the Ladies.
RW David Rich DDGM came to vis-it our Lodge we had a great turnout and all four of our newly raised Brothers were able to sit in the East with him.
Our dirt parking lot is almost fin-ished thanks to all the hard work W:.Cannon has put in to it. Don’t forget that we are collecting items for
Corky’s Cupboard.
Some of the Upcoming events: District Instruction at our Lodge on March 9th, followed by a Fellow Craft Degree on March 10th. All Fellow Crafts and Master Masons are welcome and en-couraged to attend. So come out and let’s support these
Newly Passed Brothers. Please see the Calendar for other dates.
Fraternally,
COMMITEES
Ashlar Lodge No. 98
Free & Accepted Masons
13th Masonic District
Chartered January 18, 1888
REETINGS FROM THE EAST
Stated Communications
1st & 3rd Thursdays
7:30 P.M.
——————
Degree Work / Practices
2nd & 4th Thursdays
7:30 P.M. / 6:30 P.M.
My Brothers, in my reading I found this enlightened text on our Masonic Apron by Brother H.L. Haywood...
An Emblem of Innocence and Sacrifice
When the Candidate is invested with the garment he is told that it is an emblem of innocence. It is doubtful if Operative Lodges ever used it for such a symbolic purpose, though they may have done so in the Seventeenth Century, after Speculatives began to be received in greater numbers. The evidence indicates that it was after the Grand Lodge era, and in consequence of the rule that the Apron should be of white lambskin, that Masons began to see in its color an emblem of innocence and in its texture a suggestion of sacrifice.
In so doing they fell into line with ancient practices for of old, white “has been esteemed an emblem of innocence and purity.” Among the Romans an accused person would sometimes put on a garment of white to attest his innocence, white being, as Cicero phrased it, “most acceptable to the gods.” The candidates in the Mysteries and among the Essenes were similarly invested, and it has the same meaning of purity and innocence in the Bible which promises that though our sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow. In the early Christian church the young catechumen (or con-vert) robed himself in white in token of his abandonment of the world and his determination to lead a blameless life. But there is no need to multiply instances for each of us feels by instinct that white is the natural symbol of innocence.
Now it happens that “innocence” comes from a word meaning “to do no hurt” and this may well be taken as its Masonic definition, for it is evident that no grown man can be innocent in the sense that a child is, which really means an ignorance of evil. The INNO-CENCE of a Mason is his gentleness, his chivalrous determination to do no moral evil to any person, man, or woman, or babe; his patient forbearance of the crudeness and ignorance of men; his charitable forgiveness of his brethren when they willfully or un-consciously do him evil; his dedication to a spiritual knighthood in behalf of the values and virtues of humanity by which alone man rises above the brute, and the world is carried forward on the up-ward way.
In the Bonds of Friendship
Jim Davis
ASHLAR LODGE OFFICERS 2016
Worshipful Master: James “Rick” Bailey (386)283-0108
Senior Warden: Oscar Patterson 955-9175
Junior Warden: Bo Bozard 501-4370
Secretary: David Pierucci 460-9477
Treasurer: Bob Gagnon, P.M. 501-7446
Chaplain: James Davis, P.M. 392-4565
Senior Deacon: Matthew Sweeney 806-0571
Junior Deacon: Ken Shaffner (386)864-9162
Senior Steward: James Carrick 501-4348
Junior Steward: Robert Wilson (386)793-8725
Marshall: Brian Iannucci 708-9765
Tyler: Ron DeRoco 599-1584
Lodge Instructor: Oscar Patterson . 955-9175
Musician: Ted Cassford, P.M. 797-8710
Bob Adair Mentor Program: James Davis, P.M. 392-4565
March 2016
Lodge Phone: (904)826-4086
Brother Rick Bailey, W:.M:.
“I ask of each Mason, of each member, of
each brother, that he shall remember ever
that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to show himself in every respect a good citizen; for after
all, the way he can best do his duty by the ancient order to which he belongs is by reflecting credit upon that order by
way in which he performs his duty as a citizen of the United States." -Theodore Roosevelt
FINANCE Bo Bozard Bob Harry, PGM
B. Gagnon, PM Oscar Patterson
MASONIC EDUCATION
R. Suart, PDDGM David Pierucci B. Gagnon, P.M.
James Davis, PM Oscar Patterson
CHARITY Bo Bozard B. Gagnon, P.M.
James Davis, P.M.
SCHOLARSHIP
Matt Sweeney Oscar Patterson Garret Wolfe, P.M.
Dave Pierrucci Bo Bozard
VIGILANCE James Davis, P.M. David Braddock, PM
Oscar Patterson
PETITIONS James Davis, PM Oscar Patterson David Pierucci
Ken Shaffner Matt Sweeney
LODGE PROPERTY
Chris Cannan, P.M. Troy Usina, PDDGM Charles Metcalf, P.M.
Oscar Patterson James Davis, P.M.
Jerod Meeks
BOARD OF RELIEF
Rick Bailey, WM Oscar Patterson
Bo Bozard
RAINBOW BOARD
B. Gagnon, PM Garret Wolfe, PM
Chris Cannan, P.M. Rick Bailey, W.M.
ROM THE CHAPLAIN...
P. O. Box 236
St. Augustine, FL 32085-0236
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ORGANIZATION
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St. Augustine,
Florida
FRATERNAL NOTICES AND DATES
O.E.S. Chapter #12...……..…..1st & 3rd Mondays
Rainbow Assembly #42…...1st & 3rd Wednesdays
York Rite Bodies……..……...3rd Tues & 4th Mon
St. Augustine Shrine Club….….…...2nd Tuesdays
OTHER 13th MASONIC
DISTRIC LODGES
Palatka No. 34
Palatka—2nd & 4th Mondays
Lake No. 72
Crescent City—1st & 3rd Mondays
Pineland No. 86
Peniel—1st & 3rd Thursdays
Melrose No 89
Keystone Heights—2nd & 4th Tuesdays
Middleburg No. 107
Middleburg—1st & 3rd Tuesdays
Cabul No. 116
Green Cove Springs—1st Mondays
Hastings No. 183
Hastings—2nd & 4th Tuesdays
Remember Our Masonic Home In Your Will
Let Your Pennies Make Good Sense!
RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED
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TO:
CHARITY OF THE MONTH:
Camp Boggy Creek
Chartered January 18, 1888
March 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 Rainbow 7:00 pm
3 Stated
Communication 6:30—8:30 pm
4 5
6 7
OES
7pm-9pm
8
Shrine Club 6:00 pm Social
7:00 pm meeting
9 Dist. Instruction
(Ashlar) 7:00 pm
10
FellowCraft Degree
Supper 6:30 pm Degree 7:30 pm
11
12 Open Books (Pineland)
9 am—12 pm
13 14
15
York Rite Chapter/Council
Dinner 6:30pm Meeting 7:30pm
16
Rainbow Board
6:30 pm Rainbow 7:00 pm
17
Stated Communication 6:30—8:30 pm
18
19
Masonic Education Workshop
(MM I,II, & III)
20
21
OES
7pm-9pm
22
York Rite Commandry 6:30—8 pm
23
13th District Meeting (Palatka) 7:00 pm
24
Lodge Instruction With Br. Oscar
6:30 pm
25 26 Clay County
Fair
27
EASTER
28
29 30 31
NOTES
Corky’s Cupboard items
due on March 23rd at Palatka Lodge. Let’s try to
win the challenge again this year!
<<———————-Clay County Fair (until April 2nd) ———————->>
13th Masonic District Association providing shuttle service.
Contact W:. Bill Autro if wanting to assist