FVNews Daily.  No. 116. Friday, October 2, 2020
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Friday, October 2 
• 7pm. Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Victoria. Gardenvale, Shepparton, Geelong, Maroondah, Sherbrooke, Mornington and Wimmera Councils.
• 7pm. Melbourne Shrine Club Trivia Night. Won a bottle of whisky. LINK
• 7pm. Lodge Concordia. LINK

Saturday, October 3
• 8pm. Lodge of Evolution. Talk: Jon T. Ruark, ‘The Revelation: A Critical Analysis of Masonic Demographics’. LINK

Sunday, October 4
• 2am. Daylight saving time will begin in Victoria. 

Monday, October 5
• Time TBA. Williamstown Lodge official visit to Rosebank Lodge. LINK to come.
• Time TBA. City of Footscray-Wyndham Lodge. Presentation to VWor. Bro. Bill Wright PGIW. LINK
• TBA. Lodge Garibaldi. Non-ceremonial meeting. LINK
• 7.30pm. Masonic Caravan Club of Victoria. Meeting. LINK
• 7.30pm. Rosebank Lodge. Official visit from Williamstown. Talk: Paul Brennand. Membership Volunteer Action Team. Meeting ID 824 152 8207

Tuesday, October 6
• 6pm. Mentor Training Program. Launch. LINK
• 7pm. Old Melburnians Lodge. 7.30pm. Mitchell River Lodge (Bairnsdale) visiting. Discussion: “If individual lodges hold true to the ‘landmarks of the order’ should they be able to make individual decisions about the running of meetings and internal lodge administration rather than having them prescribed centrally by the United Grand Lodge of Victoria?” Attire: Neat Casual. LINK

Wednesday, October 7
• 10.30am. VAT Leaders. Fortnightly Meeting.
• 7pm. Old Scotch Collegians Lodge. Proclamation of Joseph Morrow as Patron. Attire: Smart casual with a touch of tartan. LINK
• 7.30pm. Dimboola Lodge. Talk: Peter White, Mentor Team Leader, Membership VAT, ‘Lodge Mentorship’. LINK
• 7.30pm. Lodge of Honour. Talk: Wor. Bro. Reg (interviewed by Ron Nelson), ‘My Chemistry Sets and Where They Took Me’. Attire: Casual. LINK • 7.30pm. Powlett Lodge, Wonthaggi. Talk: ‘Basic introduction to Mark, Chapter, Red Cross of Constantine and The Royal and Select Masters’. LINK

Thursday, October 8
• 10am.Freemasons Future Recovery Team. Committee members. LINK to come.
• 7pm.Masons Connect. ‘Sharing Freemasonry’. RSVP
• 7pm for 7.30pm. Union Lodge of North Gippsland. Talk: John Parkinson, ‘Let’s Talk’. LINK
• 7.30pm. Antient York Lodge. Talk: Ange Kenos. LINK to come.
• 7.30pm. Chuna lodge. Talk: Brendan Kyne, Guided Tour of the Victorian Lodge of Research portal. LINK
• 7.30pm. Hearts Of Oak. Talk: Paul Brennand, Chair, Membership Volunteer Action Team. LINK to come.
• 7.30pm. Union Lodge of North Gippsland. Talk: John Parkinson, ‘Let’s Talk’ (stress and suicide). LINK to come
• 8pm. Geelong Lodge of Unity & Prudence. Talk: Peter White, ‘Lodge Mentor Program’. Attire: Smart Casual. LINK

Friday, October 9
• 7pm. Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Victoria. Victorian, Kerang, Oakleigh, Ballarat, McMillan, South Gippsland
• 7pm. EDL. Talk: Michael Maher, ‘The French Foreign Legion’. All welcome, partners too. LINK
• 7:30pm Altona Lodge. Talk: Anthony Bucca, ‘Masonic Time Machine – Post COVID Freemasonry’. LINK

Sunday, October 11
• 2pm. Walhalla Lodge. Talk: David Howell, ‘Kokoda Track’. LINK to come.

Monday, October 12
• 7.30pm. Masonic Caravan Club of Victoria. Meeting. LINK
• 7.30pm. United Brunswick Royal Ark Mariners Lodge. Talk: Nikolas Sakellaropoulos (Commander), ‘The Great Flood: Finding a Renaissance Perspective’. Attire: Casual. LINK to come

Wednesday, October 14
• 7pm. Traralgon Lodge. Visitors at 7.15pm. Talk: Anthony Bucca, ‘How To Create A Better Lodge Experience’. LINK
• 7.15pm for 7.30pm. Phillip Island Lodge. Talk: Dennis Moss, Role of the Phillip Island SES. LINK
• 7.30pm. Williamstown Lodge. Talk: David Newgreen, ‘Visiting Lodges Nationally and Abroad’. LINK
• 7.30pm for 8pm. Cosmopolitan Lodge. Talk: John Patterson, ‘Freemasons Foundation’. Attire: Smart Casual. Meeting ID: 930 1848 5613. Passcode: 866265

Thursday, October 15
• TBA.Albert Victor Lodge. General Management Meeting. LINK to come
• 7pm. Prospect Hill Mark Meeting. Opening and closing. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘Mark Masonry Prior to 1813. Attire: members jacket and tie, visitors smart casual. Open to non-Mark brethren. LINK
• 7pm. Rupertswood Numurkah Lodge.Talk: Anthony Bucca, ‘American Civil War – Brother against Brother’. LINK

Friday, October 16
• 7pm for 7.30pm.Bairnsdale Daylight Lodge. Talk: Geoff Newby. LINK to come.

Saturday, October 17
• 12 Noon. Education VAT Esoteric Freemasonry Series. Talk: Travis Trinca, ‘An Introduction to Hermeticism’. Hosted by Richard Shelly. LINK

Monday, October 19
• 7.30pm. Masonic Caravan Club of Victoria. Meeting. LINK
• 8pm. Gippsland Forest Lodge. Visitors admitted at 8pm. Talk: Rod Findlay, ‘Experience and role as the Victorian Police Forward Commander, leading the emergency response immediately after the Mallacoota bush fires in January this year.” LINK

Tuesday, October 20
• 7.30pm. Lowan Lodge. Talk: Barry Minster, ‘Electric Cars’. Attire: Smart Casual. LINK to come.

Wednesday, October 21
• 7pm. Grand Lodge Library/Museum Talks. ‘A Discussion on Masonic Etiquette’. LINK

Thursday, October 22

• 7.30pm. Communications and Volunteer Action Team. Members only. LINK to come.

• 7.45pm. Royal Ark Mariner Bayside trio meeting.  Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘In the Footsteps of Noah’. Current MMM, Former MMM, Current RAM, Former RAM only. LINK

Friday, October 23
• 7.30pm. Malvern-Waverley Lodge of Mark Master Masons No 39. Talk” Craig Spendlove, ‘Origins’.

Saturday, October 24
• 9.30am-3pm.Secretaries’ Course. Hosted by Eric Williams and Barry Reaper. Register for both morning and afternoon sessions. MORNING and AFTERNOON
• 2pm. Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Victoria. Video Event in place of Annual Assembly which cannot be held due to COVID-19 lockdown. LINK
• 5pm. Concord Mark. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘Importance of the Mark Lodge’. For Master Masons and above. Attire: Casual. LINK

Tuesday, October 27
• 7.45pm. Lodge Epicurean. Talks: Peter Gumley on his Isolation rehabilitation and Armen Mardirousi, Secretary of North Hollywood Lodge No. 542 to talk about his own Masonic journey, Hollywood lodge and starting a lodge in California.

Friday, October 30
• 7.30pm. Kilwinning Mark Lodge of Research No 2. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘Craftsman Marks’.

Monday, November 2
• 7pm.Oakleigh Mark Lodge. Business Meeting. 7.30pm. Visitors admitted. LINK to come.

Videos
• Launch of California Freemasons Website. (02:50) LINK
• Sir William John Clarke – Grave Restoration. (02:57) LINK
• Masonic Tracing Boards. (03:58) LINK

Vale John Baldwin
• Andrew Burman of Old Melburnians Lodge writes: “I regret to inform you that John passed to the Grand Lodge Above early Wednesday morning. John was diagnosed with liver cancer in May and received treatment which was going well until about a week ago. He is now at rest with no pain.• “John was initiated into Freemasonry in another constitution in 1972, joined the OMs in 1981 and was the Master of the Lodge in 1988-89 and again in 2009-10. While John was not a regular attender at Lodge meetings in the last couple of years, he still helped set up the South on Tuesdays with John Plowright. He and Justine also attended our social functions when they were not away at their farm at the base of the Cathedral Ranges. John and Justine celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in early June with their children, their spouses and grandchildren.• “I have no details of a funeral or memorial service but will pass them on as soon they become available. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Justine and the rest of John’s family at this time.”

Oh Wonderful Mason
• Wayne Smith advises: “MExComp Samuel Gregory Mason (NSW & ACT) has been conferred with the rank of Past Grand Zerubbabel in Supreme Grand Chapter and Past Grand Master in Grand Mark. Grand Mark has not made such a conferment since 1945 (except for MWBro HRH Prince Michael of Kent, GCVO to celebrate our Centenary in 1999) and Supreme Grand Chapter has not made such a conferment since 1968.  These conferment’s are made in consideration of MExComp/MWBro S.G. Mason being a Past First Grand Principal and Past Grand Master of the United Supreme Grand Chapter of Mark and Royal Arch Masons of NSW & ACT and he having joined a Mark Lodge and a Royal Arch Chapter within this jurisdiction and being a permanent resident of the State of Victoria.” 

$1300 raised at Killara
• Anthony Bucca, Deputy Grand Master, was Guest Speaker at the Killara Lodge meeting last night (Thurs.). Also in attendance amongst the gathering of 47 were John Rodrigo, Senior Grand Warden; Craig Head, Grand Treasurer; and John Blyth, Board Member. About $1300 was raised for the Zaidee Foundation.

Lord Lyon at Old Scotch
• Gary Edwards writes: “It’s been with special interest that I’ve noted the listing for Old Scotch Collegians Lodge’s Proclamation of Joseph Morrow as Patron, on October 7. The Grand Secretary, Garry Runge, has approved his appointment as patron. • “However, on reading the listing, I wondered if there are many readers who don’t know who Joseph Morrow is and/or his relevance to OSCL as Patron. He is Lord Lyon, and the Past Grand Master of theGrand Lodge of Scotland .• “Lord Lyon is an appointment of H.M. The Queen or King (of Scotland), and he holds the traditional role of being responsible for the approval of all Scottish Coats of Arms, Tartans and Clans. Lord Lyonhas joined a couple of Old Scotch’s recent on-line Lodge meetings, and has said that he hopes to visit Australia next year and attend one of OSCL’s meetings in person, (lockdowns permitting).”

Supporting Bereaved Children
• Freemasons in Essex have donated £10,000 to support bereaved children and their families. “The money will be used to purchase visual aids, leaflets and books which help to explain to young children, what has happened following the passing of a sibling or other close relative,” reports the Dunmow Broadcast (UK).

All Good Things
• A Brother suggests a Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
• Masonic Care WA is on track to deliver a 124-bed aged care facility as part of a $200million development. LINK
• Mozart’s last and famous opera The Magic Flute was premiered for this first time on  September 30, 1791, at Schikaneder’s theatre, the Freihaus-Theater Auf der Wieden in Vienna. The opera has many Masonic elements. LINK

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Famous Freemasons
•O’Connell, Daniel (1775-1847) – A controversial Irish politician who vehemently campaigned for Catholics to be able to sit in the Westminster Parliament, Daniel O’Connell led a topsy-turvy political life.O’Connell was raised in Lodge No.189, Dublin in 1797.
– Timothy Horton

Masonic Knowledge
• Freemasonry and the Knights Templar. LINK

Masonic Wisdom
• “The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” – Bro. Arnold Palmer

The Last Word
• “I belong to no organised party. I am a Democrat.” – Bro. Will Rogers

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