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163rd Grand Lodge of California communications All Entered
Apprentices and Fellow Crafts please make it a point to join us at the
monthly Stated Meeting. You are now invited and encouraged to
attend on the First Tuesday of every month with dinner at 6:30 pm and
the Stated Meeting starting about 7:30 pm. Why? At the recent
Grand Lodge Communication, two important resolutions were passed.
First, Resolution 11-06 which "Restores the historic roll of Entered
Apprentices and Fellow Crafts in Masonry". This means that the
Stated of California now joins the nine other western States in opening
the Stated Meetings for the transaction of business on the 1st degree
of Masonry. Up until now, all Stated Meeting business was
conducted on the 3rd degree. This may be an important step to
include our Entered Apprentices and Fellow Crafts in the business of the Lodge. The
Entered Apprentices and Fellow Crafts are “Masons” but not “Members” of the
Lodge until they are raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason. According to resolution 11-06,
and in a clarification letter from the Most Worshipful John Lowe Grand Master
of Masons in California, the Entered Apprentices and Fellow Crafts will have a
voice, but not a vote. Whether
you are for or against these new resolutions, it will be interesting to
see what effect this may have on the membership and the progression of
our Entered Apprentices and Fellow Crafts through the degrees. |