FVNews Daily  
No. 142. Wednesday, November 18, 2020

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What’s On (35 listings)
UPDATED DAILY.

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Wednesday, November 18

• 10.30am. VAT Leaders Meeting. For Members.
• 5pm. Freemasons Foundation Victoria. Annual General Meeting. LINK
Thursday, November 19

• 7pm. Prospect Hill Mark. Interview with Peter Gurr, First Grand Principal, Grand Chapter, by Lionel May. Attire: members jacket and tie, visitors smart casual. Open to non-Mark brethren. LINK
• 7.30pm. Albert Victor Lodge. Non-Ceremonial Meeting. Meeting ID: 84316667337. Passcode: AVL117
• 7.30pm. Portland Lodge. Talk: Bob McPherson, local fishing guru and wildlife photographer. LINK Meeting ID: 893 0287 9899 

• 7.30pm. United Schools Mark Lodge. Talk: Lodge Liberte Cherie (Cherished Liberty) – The Masonic Lodge founded by imprisoned Belgium resistance fighters in 1943. LINK Meeting ID: 878 2473 8477. Passcode: 362309

• 7.45pm. Stewart Lodge of St Arnaud. Talk: Barry Minster, ‘Role of the Grand Almoner’. Attire: Neat Casual. LINK Meeting ID: 827 7280 1529.  Passcode: 799923 

Friday, November 20

• 7pm. Blue Lounge Social Club Education Forum: Allied Masonic Degrees and The Operatives. Presentation: Michael Burrell and David Yole. All Invited. Casual Dress. LINK
• 7.30pm. Bairnsdale Daylight Lodge. Talk: Daryl Cook, ‘Bringing Freemasonry into the 21st Century. LINK
• 7.30pm. Melbourne Chapter. Talk: Ian Brown, ‘Ceremony of the Banners’. LINK Meeting ID: 830 1351 3021. Passcode: MelbHRAC8

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

• 6pm. St George Lodge, Dunolly. Family Gathering. RSVP
• 7.30pm. Masonic Caravan Club. LINK
• 7.30pm. South Gippsland Mark. Talk: Warren Gilbert, ‘Mark Masonry Before 1813’. LINK Meeting ID: 993 4347 5482  Passcode: 306566 

Tuesday, November 24

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

• 7pm. Peace and Loyalty Lodge. Talk: David Howell, ‘Kokoda Track’. LINK• 7pm. 7.30pm: Visitors. Pakenham Mark Lodge. Talk: Leigh Norman, ‘The Importance of the Mark Degree’. Craftsmen welcome. LINK to come.

• 7pm. 7.45pm: Visitors. Lodge Amicus. Presentation 40-year anniversary to Anthony Bucca, Deputy Grand Master, by Richard Elkington, Grand Master, assisted by Bob Jones, Past Grand Master. LINK Meeting ID: 811 8315 4173. Passcode: 152732
• 7.15pm for 7.30pm. Mount Scopus and Collegians Lodge. Talk: The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite In Australia and also the Universal Rite which is open to all Faiths.  Vacant Chair Ceremony. Attire: Dinner Suit or Lounge Suit and Tie. LINK Meeting ID: 882 7348 8384. Passcode: 348470
• 7.30pm. Middle Park Lodge. Talk: Ben Quick, ‘The Order of Free Gardeners’. LINK Meeting ID: 873 6016 3788. Password: 607640.

Wednesday, November 25

• 7pm.Dimboola RAM and West Wimmera Mark Lodge. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘Following In The Footsteps of Noah’. Current and former MMM, Current and former RAM Masons ONLY. LINK Meeting ID: 898 0025 3466 . Passcode: 276944

Thursday, November 26

• 7pm. Leura Lodge. Talk: Neil Smith, ‘Winter In Norway’ with photos. LINK Meeting ID: 682 183 5181. Password: leura50

• 7.30pm. Creswick Havilah Lodge. Talk: David Howell, ‘Bita Paka, our first engagement of the Great War; Rabaul 1914’. Attire: Neat Casual. LINK Meeting ID: 864 7865 4227. Passcode: 952808 

• 7.30pm. Mornington Peninsula Council No.21 Royal and Select Masters of Victoria. LINK Meeting ID: 860 4625 4883. Passcode: No21

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. Talk: W. Jones. RAM Masons only. LINK
• 7.30pm. Great Debate. Teams led by ‘That we should be able to read the ritual’.. Teams led by Kent Henderson and Harry Pitaro. LINK Meeting ID: 822 1742 2503. Passcode: 892911.
Tuesday, December 1
• 7.30pm. Williamstown Lodge. Attire: Dinner jacket, white shirt, black bow-tie. LINK Meeting ID: 612 821 4334. Passcode: 105105

Thursday, December 3
• 7pm. 7.30pm: Visitors. Killara Lodge. Talk: Bill Jones, Ararat Power Station. LINK Meeting  ID: 740 6248 2640. Password: 403265 
• 7.30pm. Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge. LINK to come
Saturday, December 5
• 5pm. Concord Mark Lodge. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘A Grand Mark is Born’. LINK Meeting ID: 926 1367 7906. Passcode: 333746
Wednesday, December 9
• TBA. Williamstown Lodge. Christmas Dinner.
Saturday, December 12
• 12 Noon.  Sale of Myrtleford Masonic Centre to Scouts Victoria. Media Event.
Wednesday, December 16
• TBA. Freemasons Victoria Quarterly Communication or Business Meeting.

Condolences Bro. Manno

• Freemasons across Victoria join as one in expressing deepest condolences to Bro. Jayden Manno, a member of Garibaldi and Bank Place Lodges, on his profound loss following the tragic death of his sister Celeste at Mernda.

Vale Bill Babe

• Bill Babe, Past Grand Master of Western Australia, will be farewelled at a service later today, 5.30pm Melbourne time. It will be live streamed. LINK

Communications Success Stories (1)
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• Congratulations to all associated with the Remembrance Day observance at Wonthaggi which has brought significant positive media coverage including this item in the South Gippsland Sentinel-Times. The newspaper’s report (Page 25 LINK) included images of Richard Elkington, Grand Master, with local Freemasons.

Communications Success Stories (2)
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• Lodge of Honour members are featured on the front-page of today’s edition of the Peninsula-Frankston Edition of The Local Paper for their Remembrance Day participation. These stories are excellent positive publicity for Freemasons Victoria.

Report from the Board

• The Board of General Purposes has published a report from its November meeting. The report includes matters about finance, insurances, next year’s Grand Installation, the Freemasons Future Recovery Team, Constitutional Reform, major project discussions, solar panels, formation of a Compassion and Spirituality Volunteer Action Team, a Harmony VAT, a Freemasons Torah Scroll, principles of succession, and a number of reports.
• For details of the Board report, sign on at www.freemasonsvic.org.au, go to Messages, and select Board Reports.

£750,000 donated to hospices

• “The Freemasons have made 203 grants to hospices in the UK meaning that a total of £750,000 will be donated to hospices all over England and Wales this year.” LINK

50-year jewel

• Royal Eaglehawk Holy Royal Arch Chapter advises that Bill Bourquin presented Royce Beale with a 50-year jewel (Royce was exalted in the Goulburn Chapter on June 25, 1970.  Adam Bourquin, Graeme Turpie, Royce’s wife Maureen and their pet Jack Russell were also present.

Our apologies

• FVNews incorrectly listed the Footscray St John meeting for Monday (Nov. 16) instead of last night (Tues., Nov. 17). Apologies to anyone inconvenienced.

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Famous Freemasons
•  “Schirra, Walter Marty ‘Wally’ (1923-2007) – An astronaut who was made a “Mason at Sight” by the Grand Master of Masons of Florida, Wally Schirra carried several Masonic items with him on his Apollo 7 flight. He was the command pilot on the history-making Gemini 6 flight, which rendezvoused with the already orbiting Gemini 7 spacecraft, the first ever rendezvous of two manned, manœuvreable craft in space. Wally Shirra, won an ‘Emmy’ Award for pictures broadcast from space on the Apollo 7 mission, and was the only astronaut to fly in all three space programs, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.”
– Timothy Horton

Masonic Knowledge
• “Masonic Etiquette is, by definition, something that is not to be left to an individual to see or to carry out according to his own taste; he conforms to it because it was formally adopted as a conventional requirement for acceptable behavior (whether he sees a good reason for doing so or not).

• “An act of Masonic etiquette is some movement, action, courteous gesture or speech performed at a given time and place, in a certain manner, and according to rule, fixed and imposed by the Fraternity itself. Since the rules are for the good of the Craft as a whole, it affects each member. An organisation such as ours adopts these rules because we need them to carry out our good works in an atmosphere of harmony. They are not empty and meaningless, arbitrarily enacted and imposed for the mere sake of performing them.

• “The rules have been time-tested AND they work.” – www.themasonictrowel.com

Masonic Wisdom
• “Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.” – Bro. Harry S. Truman

The Last Word
• ““The world today does require spiritual and moral regeneration. I have no doubt, after many years as a member of our Order, that Freemasonry can play a most important part in this vital need.” – (Bro.) King George VI

INFORMATION TO KNOW
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