FVNews Daily  
No. 130. Wednesday, October 28, 2020

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Wednesday, October 28

• 7.30pm. Lodge Fraternal. Talk: ‘The Shriners’. LINK
• 8pm. GregoriosLodge. OXI Day. Greek ‘No’ Day Commemorative Ceremony. Includes Grand Master. Guests’ attire: casual. LINK

Thursday, October 29

• 10am-11am. Think Pink Foundation. Iryna Skincare Session for Masonic Ladies. LINK
• 7.30pm. Central District. Membership Information Night. to introduce Freemasonry to a number of potential candidates who have expressed interest in joining. REGISTER
• 7.30pm. Endeavour Virtual Lodge. Installation of Wor. Bro. Brendan Kyne, DGSupEd, followed by  talk on ‘Chaps, Rouges, Orange-Men and Catholics’.  Dress code: Dinner suit or lounge suit and full lodge regalia. Zoom password 7752. LINK
• 7.30pm. Think Pink Foundation. Iryna Skincare Session for Masonic Ladies. LINK

Friday, October 30

• 7pm. Earl of Dunmore Lodge. Talk: Ben Quick, ‘Order of the Free Gardeners’. Visit by Lodge of the Golden Fleece. Brethren, partners and visitors welcome. LINK
• 7.30pm. Kilwinning Mark Lodge of Research No 2. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘Craftsman Marks’. Attire: Neat Casual. LINK Meeting ID: 851 2972 0796

Passcode: KMLOR2

Saturday, October 31

• 7.30pm. Blue Lounge Social Club Education Forum: Cryptic Masonry: The Order of Royal and Select Masters. All Freemasons welcome. LINK

Monday, November 2

• 7pm (7.30pm: Visitors). Oakleigh Mark Lodge. Business Meeting. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘India -The Raj, Mysticism and Masonry’. LINK
• 7.30pm. Lodge Garibaldi. Talk: Mike Kearsly. LINK
• 7.30pm. Rosebank Lodge. Talk: Ben Quick, ‘Establishing Contact with Sister Lodges’. ZOOM link: 824 152 8207.

Tuesday, November 3

• 7.45pm. Robbie Burns RAM No. 76. For MMM and RAM members. Talk: ‘The English Tracing Board’. LINK

Wednesday, November 4

• 7.30pm. Gippsland Lodge. Talk: Iain Nicolson, ‘Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem’. LINK to come.
• 7.30pm. Lodge of Honour. Talk: John Glover, ‘Tomb of the Unknown Soldier’. Attire: Neat Casual. LINK Meeting ID: 954 4794 4355

Thursday, November 5

• 7pm (7.30pm: Guests). Killara Lodge. Talk: Barry Watson, ‘The Last 100 Days of World War I.’ LINK
• 7.15pm for 7.30pm.Sandringham District Lodge. Talk: Ian Goddard, ‘What it takes to be on a Grand Team’. LINK
• 7.30pm. Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge. To be chaired by Milton Tsaktsiras, SW. LINK to come.
• 7.30pm. Robbie Burns Lodge of Mark Master Masons. Presentation of 50-Year Jewel to V.Wor.Bro Bill Wright. Talk: Glen Hollibone. LINK Passcode: CFW239 

Saturday, November 7

• 7pm. Blue Lounge Social Club. Forum: ‘Why Freemasonry is an organisation worth joining in the 21st Century’. LINK

Monday, November 9

• 10am-12 Noon. District Co-Ordinators’ Meeting.
• 7pm. Lodge of Commerce. Vacant Chair Ceremony. LINK to come.

Tuesday, November 10

• 7.30pm. Colac Lodge. Talk: Myles King, President, Board of General Purposes. LINK to come.
• 7.30pm. Epicurean Lodge in conjunction with Bellarine and Otway. Remembrance Day Observance. Details TBA.
• 7.30pm. Golden and Corinthian Lodge. Talk: Bob Jones, ‘A Day In The Life Of A Grand Master’. Attire:  Dinner Suit. Log in details: Meeting ID: 651 201 5916. PassCode: 8HrrzK (case sensitive)

Wednesday, November 11 – Remembrance Day
• 11am. Powlett Lodge, Wonthaggi. Laying of Wreath at Cenotaph, McBride St.

• 7.30pm. Lord Somers Australasian Chapter.. LINK Meeting ID: 856 1023 0004 Passcode: 803457 

• 7.30pm. Traralgon Lodge. Talk: Marty Tanzer, Remembrance Day. LINK
• 7.30pm. United Services Lodge. Remembrance Day Ceremony. Talk: Bro. Col. John Wertheimer, ‘A Remembrance Day’. Vacant Chair Ceremony. Attire: Members, jacket and tie. Visitors welcome, neat casual. LINK

Thursday, November 12

• 7pm. Masons Connect. Sharing Freemasonry Meeting. RSVP
• 7pm for 7.30pm. Antient York. Talk: John Glover, ‘The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and Power Point production of the Vacant Chair Ceremony. Attire: Jacket and tie. LINK to come.

Friday, November 13

• 7.30pm. Altona Lodge. Talk: Brendan Kyne, ‘Guided Tour of the Victorian Lodge of Research Portal’. Attire: members collared shirt and tie, visitors smart casual. LINK

Thursday, November 19

• 7pm. Prospect Hill Mark. Interview with Peter Gurr, First Grand Principal, Grand Chapter. Attire: members jacket and tie, visitors smart casual. Open to non-Mark brethren. LINK

Saturday, November 21

• 12 Noon. Education Volunteer Action Team Freemasonry Series. Lecture: Ari Indra, ‘The Lord’s Prayer’. LINK Meeting ID: 885 3954 6483

Monday, November 23

• 7.30pm. South Gippsland Mark. LINK Meeting ID: 993 4347 5482  Passcode: 306566 

Tuesday, November 24

• 7pm. Lodge Amalthea. Talk: Chris White, ‘Freemasonry and the Goat’. LINK

Friday, November 27

• 7.30pm. Victorian Lodge of Research, with Old Scotch Collegians Lodge and Earl of Dunmore Lodge. Talk: Joseph Morrow, ‘Illustrated by Symbols – Masonic Heraldry in Scotland.’ Register enquiries prior to the event. Attire: Smart Casual. LINK

Monday, November 30
• 7pm. Oakleigh Council, Royal and Select Masters. Talk: David Yole. All members past and present of the Order, in addition members of other Orders. Attire: Casual. LINK
• 7.30pm. Citizens Marine Royal Ark Mariners. RAM Masons only. LINK

Videos

• Re-consecration of North Australia Lodge. (05:11) LINK
• Builders of Dreams: The California Masonic Experience. (11:27) LINK
• Masonic Etiquette for the Modern Freemason. (07:40) LINK

Vale William Babe

• Barry Minster, Grand Almoner, advises: “MWBro Dr William (Bill) Babe PGM – Western Australia. Sad news from the West – Dr Bill passed away (Monday) – unexpectedly. Most sincere condolences to Kelly Babe and all of his family. MWBro Bill was a frequent visitor to Melbourne and will be deeply missed.” 

Vale Allan Inglis

• We regret to advise of the passing to the Grand Lodge Above of Wor. Bro. Allan Scott Inglis PJGD, member of Woodend Daylight Lodge 403. Allan was born on July 23, 1926. He passed away peacefully in Sunbury aged 94, formerly of Donald. He was husband of Dorothy (dec), father of Rosemary and David and father-in-law of Iva. He was Grandfather of Kira, Tamara and Marina; Great-Grandfather of Taivan, Quinn,Arli and Koa. Goonawarra Aged Care Sunbury were thanked for their support and care.

Public awareness campaign
• A 2021 community awareness campaign for Freemasons Victoria, detailing the qualities that the public might expect of a Mason, was discussed at last week’s meeting of the Communications and Marketing Volunteer Action Team. Richard Elkington, Grand Master, was a welcome participant at the meeting. VAT member Bob Pullin is investigating possibilities of using radio and television, with online and print options also being used. It was agreed that such a campaign would be best employed after Lodges re-open next year. The campaign will, of course, go through an approval process by the  Grand Secretariat and Marketing teams.

John Glover’s 50 years

• Messages of congratulations are rolling in for John Glover who is celebrating the 50-year anniversary of being initiated at Baden Powell Lodge.“His Masonic history is impeccable, and all his well wishes are listed on his Facebook page,” said Bob Jones, Past Grand Master.

Future Recovery Team meets
• Throughout the Victorian pandemic, the Freemasons Future Recovery Team has met regularly to take the advice of its expert members. Daniel Andrews, Victorian Premier, is due to make the next series of announcements on November 8 regarding gradual easing of restrictions across the state. The FRRT, headed by Deputy Grand Master Anthony Bucca,has scheduled its next meeting to take place soon thereafter. Recommendations to the Board will be made in a timely manner.

The Lord’s Prayer
• The Education Volunteer Action Team will present a lecture on The Lord’s Prayer at 12 Noon on Saturday, November 21. The lecture (an esoteric and Kabbalistic study)  in the Esoteric Freemasonry Series will be delivered by Ari Indra, Grand Steward, and hosted by Richard Shelly.

Personal Pars
• Ken Barnes writes: “It may be advisable to suggest politely to our brethren that as live meetings are likely to commence fairly soon we should all dust off our dinner suits and try them on for size as some, perhaps many of us may have changed a wee bit.”

World News
• “A £5000 donation has been made to a Hexham charity which will help provide equipment to help people with special needs. TheNorthumberland Freemasons made the donation which will help to fund a massage chair which will provide therapy and emotional comfort for people who have a range of conditions including anxiety, autism and physical difficulties.” LINK

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Famous Freemasons
• Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville ‘P.G.’ (1881-1975) – Born prematurely in Guildford, Surrey, England, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer of humorous short stories, novels, plays, poems and song lyrics. His most famous stories are about the adventures of Jeeves and Wooster, narrated by the wealthy, but scatterbrained, Bertie Wooster. By the Second World War, Wodehouse had become a wealthy man but, while living in the South of France, he was interned by the Nazis as “an undesirable alien” and, after the war, he moved to the USA, where he became a naturalised citizen in 1955. Known to his family and friends as ‘Plum’, P.G. Wodehouse was a golfing nut. One of his many quotes on golf was, “The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.” He was a member of Jerusalem Lodge No. 197, UGLE, London.
– Timothy Horton

Masonic Knowledge
• Masonic Etiquette Today is a book by Graham Redman, and is introduced by www.lewismasonic.co.uk – “This book draws together a number of different topics relating to Masonic protocol and provides a comprehensive guide to Masonic behaviour and practice. Topics covered include conduct and issues inside and outside the Lodge, such as dress, regalia, membership, voting, elections, precedence, seating, saluting, general procedures, visiting, behaviour (and difficulties), administrative matters and etiquette at dinner. The book also addresses topics of importance to Masons away from the Lodge, such as correspondence, ties and other Masonic wear, and openness.” LINK

Masonic Wisdom
• “Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in the knowledge of the divine and human nature of God and the human Soul.” – Bro. Dr. A. G. MacKey 

The Last Word
• “Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.”

INFORMATION TO KNOW
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