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Masonic
Center
300
South 7th Avenue
West Reading, PA 19611
Stated
Meetings: First Tuesday of the month
Extra
Meetings: 4th Wednesday after the first
Tuesday
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WM Dennis R. Pritchard
invites you to
come to a Stated Meeting of the Lodge. Support your favorite
Charity by participating in his “Charity of the Month”
program! Call or e-mail us for reservations to join us for dinner
before the Meeting.
A
note to visitors to our Lodge from the Officers and Members :
Chandler Lodge No. 227 is proud to support our DDGM in continuing
the Pennsylvania tradition of requiring "Masonic Dress"
at our Stated and Extra meetings. Masonic dress is coat and tie,
but more than that it signifies a proper state of mind when
entering the Lodge, being dressed Masonically means to be ready
to leave the outside world of concerns to dwell in peace among
your Brethren.
Meals before the Stated Meetings in 2013 will be catered by Dori Martin Catering.
2013
Calendar :
January
1st Stated
Meeting
Supper
Menu: Sandwiches after the meeting
Program:
Introduction of Lodge Officers
2nd School
of Instruction
9th School
of Instruction
15th
Officer Rehearsal
16th School
of Instruction
23rd Extra
Meeting
February
2nd Blood
Drive 8 AM to 12 PM at the Masonic Center
5th Stated
Meeting
Supper
Menu: Salisbury Steaks
Program:
“Chair in the East” ? or Examination of Visitor
6th School
of Instruction
13th
Secretary Seminar at Elizabethtown?
19th Extra Meeting, 32nd degrees
20th
School of Instruction
29th Lodge Closed
March
5th Stated
Meeting
Supper
Menu: Chicken Cordon Blue
Program:
Finances Chandler Lodge Masonic Center
6th School
of Instruction
13th School
of Instruction
16th Regional
School Harrisburg
16th
Official Visitation: Huguenot 337 Kutztown 7PM
19th
Officers Rehearsal
20th School
of Instruction
27th Extra
Meeting. Note time change, Meeting starts at 6 PM!
April
2nd Stated
Meeting
Supper
Menu: Sausage, Sauerkraut and Horseraddish
Program:
Open
3rd School
of Instruction & Rehearsal of Harrisburg Degree Team
6th Sectional School - Harrisburg
(Exemplification of Entered Apprentice degree
by 7th Masonic District Officers)
10th School
of Instruction - Freemasonry 101 - funeral Service
11th Official Visitation Vaux 406 Shoemakersville 7PM
16th
Officers Rehearsal
17th School
of Instruction & Board Of Governors
18th
Official Visitation Teutonia 367 Masonic Center 7PM
24th Extra
Meeting
25th
Official Visitation Union 479 Birdsboro 7PM
May
1st School
of Instruction - Freemasonry 101 - Short Opening & Closing of
Lodge
7th Stated
Meeting
Supper
Menu: Stuffed Bell Peppers
Program:
Official Visitation 60/50/25 yr pins
8th School of Instruction - Exemplification -
Fellowcraft Mason's Degree
11th 165th Annual Banquet Chef Alan's Bistro Fair Grounds Mall 6PM
12th
Mother’s Day
15th School
of Instruction & Board Of Governors
20th
Official Visitation Isaac Heister 660 Masonic Center 7PM
21st
Officers Rehearsal
24th Tentative date - Movie in
the Park - Gring's Mill
28th Memorial Day
29th Extra
Meeting
June
1st Blood
Drive 8 AM to 12PM at the Masonic Center
3rd
Official Visitation Lodge 62 Masonic Center 7PM
4th Stated
Meeting, Ladies Night !
Supper
Menu: Roast Pulled Pork
5th School
of Instruction - Freemasonry 101 - Guides & Wardens in Third
Degree
12th School
of Instruction - Exemplification - Master Mason's Degree
13th
Official Visitation Reading Lodge 549 Masonic Center 7 PM
16th
Father’s Day
18th
Officer Rehearsal
19th School
of Instruction & Board Of Governors
24th St.
John the Baptist Day
26th Extra
Meeting
Lodge
is "Dark" July and August
July
Summer
recess
3rd School
of Instruction
4th Parade in Wyomissing
10th School
of Instruction
17th School
of Instruction
August
Summer
recess
7th School
of Instruction
14th School
of Instruction
21st School
of Instruction
September
3rd Stated
Meeting Ladies Night
Supper
Menu: Beef Bar-B-Que on Rolls
4th School
of Instruction
11th School
of Instruction
17th
Officer Rehearsal
18th School
of Instruction
25th Extra
Meeting
October
5th Stated
Meeting
Supper
Menu: Stuffed Cabbage
Program:
Memorial Service
2nd School
of Instruction
9th School
of Instruction
15th
Officer Rehearsal
16th School
of Instruction
23rd Extra
Meeting
November
5th Stated
Meeting
Supper
Menu: Roast Turkey
Program:
Past Masters' Night
13th School
of Instruction
19th
Officer Rehearsal
20th School
of Instruction
27th Extra
Meeting
28th
Thanksgiving
December
3rd Stated
Meeting
Supper
Menu: Baked Ham
Program:
OFFICER ELECTIONS
4th School
of Instruction
11th School
of Instruction
17th
Officer Rehearsal
18th School
of Instruction
25th Extra
Meeting
Is it your
Masonic birthday? See your meeting notice!
Note:
If you know the whereabouts of any of the "lost"
Brethren in your meeting notice, please contact the Secretary!
Chandler
Lodge Online Masonic Library - Read
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Upcoming
Masonic Events
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Chandler
Lodge No.227 165th Annual Banquet
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Date:
Saturday, May 11th, 2013
Time: 6 PM
Location: Chef
Alan's Restaurant - Fair Ground Square Mall
Wyomissing 4th of July day Parade
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7th
Masonic District School of Instruction
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Date:
First Three Wednesdays of the Month
Time:
7:00pm
Location: Masonic Center, West Reading, PA
Please
see your meeting notice for further details!
Masonic
Thoughts
From Dennis R. Pritchard, WM
to the Brethren of Chandler Lodge No. 227
To my
Fraternal Brethren of Chandler Lodge No.227:
The
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania is one of a few remaining Grand Lodges
in the World that works under the Ancients Constitution. The following
was copied from Wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_manuscripts):
“ The Book of Constitutions,
or Ahiman Rezon, of the Grand Lodge of England According to the Old Institutions,
also known as the Antient Grand Lodge of England or the Grand Lodge of the Antients,
was first published in 1754. Its author, Laurence Dermott, was Grand Secretary of the
Antient Grand Lodge from 1752 to 1771. The full name of the first edition was Ahiman Rezon;
or a Help to a Brother; showing the Excellency of Secrecy, and the first cause or motive of
the Institution of Masonry; The Principles of the Craft; and the benefits from a Strict
Observance thereof, etc., etc.; Also the Old and New Regulations; etc. To which is added the
greatest collection of Masons' Songs, etc. A second edition was published in 1764, and subsequent
editions in 1778, 1787, 1800, 1801, 1807, and 1813. The second edition was reprinted in
Philadelphia in 1855 by Leon Hyneman. Dermott borrowed heavily from the Constitutions
of the Grand Lodge of Ireland which had been published in 1751.
The first Charge in the Ahiman Rezon reads as follows:
CHARGE I. Concerning GOD and Religion.
A Mason is obliged by his Tenure to believe
firmly in the true Worship of the eternal God, as well as in all those sacred
Records which the Dignitaries and Fathers of the Church have compiled and published
for the Use of all good Men: So that no one who rightly understands the Art,
can possibly tread in the irreligious Paths of the unhappy Libertine, or be
induced to follow the arrogant Professors of Atheism or Deism; neither is he to
be stained with the gross Errors of blind Superstition, but may have the Liberty
of embracing what Faith he shall think proper, provided at all Times he pays a due
Reverence to his Creator, and by the World deals with Honour and Honesty ever making
that golden Precept the Standard-Rule of his Actions, which engages, To do unto all
Man as he would they should do unto him: For the Craft, instead of entering into idle
and unnecessary Disputes concerning the Different Opinions and Persuasions of Men,
admits into the Fraternity all that are good and true; whereby it hath brought about
the Means of Reconciliation amongst Persons, who, without that Assistance, would have
remained at perpetual Variance.
Worshipful
Master 2013 Dennis R. Pritchard.
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