What Does It Mean To Be A Masonic Brother

Accordingly masons swear at each degree to keep the contents of that degree secret and to support and protect their brethren unless they have broken the law.

I ask you to consider and to practice that openness tolerance and to express a genuine interest in your fellow freemason the man you call my brother. What it means to be a mason. Proficiency in the ritual not only means that the brother is capable of memorizing the words. The principal duty of the chaplain is to lead prayer before and after the lodge meeting and to say grace while the lodge is at dinner.

Masonic usage of the word may be freely given as respected or honored. But it also means studying and becoming proficient in the history and symbolism of the materiel presented in each of the degrees. Be a true brother to him. Spread by the advance of the british empire freemasonry remains most popular in the british isles and in other countries originally within the empire.

Masonic glossary of terms we in freemasonry like many organisations have our own specific terminology. It means being part of an unbroken tradition that stretches back over 500 years to a time when guilds of freemasons traveled throughout europe laying the stones of the great gothic cathedrals. A cable tow is attached to a freemason s robe and represents a promise that he will help his brother however much he can as long as it s within the length of his tow rope. For district 10 s masonic day.

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It measures how capable the brother is in terms of being able to assist his fellow freemason. The most worshipful brother is he who is most greatly honored or respected. In most masonic jurisdictions each lodge will have a chaplain. In freemasonry the path upward lays in proficiency in the ritual.

To spread the cement of brotherly love and affection that cement which unites us into one sacred band or society of brothers among whom no contention should ever exist but that noble emulation of who can best work or best agree. The following list is a glossary of some of the common masonic phrases we use. Originally presented march 22nd 2003 at oliver b c. This is doubtless as much a descendant from ecclesiastical practice as from old english phraseology.

An episcopal marriage service used with my body i thee worship meaning honor or reverence. The idea of masonic brotherhood probably descends from a 16th century legal definition of a brother as one who has taken an oath of mutual support to another. More masonic biographies articles. In many lodges this position is filled by a clergyman an ordained minister priest rabbi imam etc who is a brother of the lodge.

These terms give special meaning to some common words and in some cases phrases you won t hear anywhere but in a masonic lodge.