FVNews Daily  
No. 144. Friday, November 20, 2020

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What’s On (34 listings)
UPDATED DAILY.

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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 
• 7.30pm. 7.50pm: Visitors. Spring Vale Lodge. Virtual Tour: Grand Lodge of Philadelphia. Attire: Smart Casual. LINK

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’. LINK TBA.

• 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.Admiral Collingwood Lodge. Talk: Charges of a Freemason. LINK Meeting ID: 874 1439 6373. Passcode: 366679
• 7.30pm.Djerriwarrh Lodge. Ceremony of the Vacant Chair, Official visit by City of Footscray-Wyndham Lodge. Talk: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Talk: The

Origins of Freemasonry, Other Theories, The Knights Templar. Attire, neat casual. LINK ID: 956 568 1005. Passcode: 338729

• 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
• 7.30pm.Senior Grand Officers Meeting.
• 7.30pm.Werribee Mark Lodge. LINK Meeting ID: 825 3466 3419. Passcode: 095656

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
• 7pm. Old Melburnians Lodge. 
• 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.

Sunday, December 20
• All Day. Bunnings Mernda. Sausage Sizzle. Members of Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge.

Videos

• The Basics of Masonic Education. (15:27) WATCH
• The 33rd Degree. (04:08) WATCH
• The Middle Chamber Masonic Education Program of North Carolina. (01:47:28) WATCH

Vale Charles Andrews

• We regret to advise of the passing to the Grand Lodge Above of Bro. Norman Charles Andrews to the Grand Lodge Above. Blue Dandenongs Lodge Secretary Roger Thompson said further details will be forwarded as they come to hand.

Vale Dame Margaret Guilfoyle

• We regret to advise of the passing of Dame Margaret Guilfoyle. Dame Margaret Guilfoyle AC. Wife of Brother Stan Guilfoyle AM, former member of Lodge of Commerce 837. 15.5.1926-11.11.2020. Mother of Georgina, Anne and Geoffrey, mother-in-law of Peter and Shelagh, and grandmother of Hugo, Jennifer, Oliver and Elizabeth. She will be sadly and profoundly missed by her family, friends and colleagues. She will be remembered for her humour, spark and intellect. Passionate about language, she was eclectic in her reading and interests. She achieved much in her public life, based on her abiding beliefs in equity and fairness. (Thanks to Barry Minster, Grand Almoner.)

Sizzling time for Freemasons

• As part of the COVID-19 recovery, Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge members are amongst the first to sign up for a Bunnings Sausage Sizzle, on Sunday, December 20 at the Mernda store. The Lodge conducts the sessions as part of its public outreach, as well as earning funds. The Lodgedecided last year that its area of influence is beyond the Banyule municipality, and is now also in the Nillumbik, Whittlesea and Murrindindi local government areas. Ivanhoe Grammar School has a second campus at Mernda-Doreen.

Masonic Mailbag
• Boon-Kee Tan writes: “Thank you very much for the FVNews Daily. I am pleased to know that there must be also non-Freemasons enjoying yourDaily, otherwise, I will find it intriguing to read that one of our brethren seemed surprised to know all work is done free. Relief is one of our three great principles and I suppose it is a good time to muse over the Tyler’s Toast (Pocket, Heart and Hand) – we can give relief either: by our wallet, or, by our care, or, by our labor.”

World News

• The Salem News (Ohio, USA) reports: “The Masons from Perry Lodge No. 185 in Salem donated over 50 turkeys to the Salvation Army to help less fortunate families in the Salem area this Thanksgiving.” LINK

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Famous Freemasons
•  “Roberts VC, Sir Frederick Sleigh ‘Bobs’ – Field Marshall, The Right Honourable, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1832-1914) – Bobs Roberts was a distinguished British soldier who regarded himself as Anglo-Irish, yet he was actually born in India. Having already won theVictoria Cross (VC) in 1858, during the Indian Rebellion, Roberts was one of the most successful commanders of the Victorian era, capturingKabul from the Afghan emir, whose forces he finally defeated at the ‘Battle of Kandahar’ in 1880. Roberts also commanded the British Armyduring the Second Boer War, relieving Kimberly in 1899 and advancing on Pretoria. (Remarkably, Roberts’ son also won a VC during the Boer War but, following the action, died of his wounds.) Bobs Roberts himself died while visiting Indian troops in France during World War I.”
– Timothy Horton

Masonic Knowledge
• “One of the Working Tools of a Mark Master, having the same emblematic meaning as the Common Gavel in the Entered Apprentice’s Degree. It teaches us to correct the irregularities of temper, and, like enlightened reason, to curb the aspirations of unbridled ambition, to depress the malignity of envy, and to moderate the ebullition of anger. It removes from the mind all the excrescences of vice, and fits it, as a well-wrought stone, for that exalted station in the great temple of nature to which, as an emanation of the Deity, it is entitled.

• “The Mallet or Setting Maul is also an emblem of the Third Degree, and is said to have been the implement by which the stones were set up at the Temple.

It is often improperly confounded with the Common Gavel.

• The French Freemasons, to whom the word Gavel is unknown, uniformly use maillet, or mallet, in its stead, and confound its symbolic use, as the implement of the presiding officer, with the mallet of the English and American Mark Master.

– Mackey’s Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

Masonic Wisdom
• “You admit that no new lodge can be formed without the permission of the Grand Master or his Deputy, and that no countenance ought to be given to any irregular lodge, or to any person initiated therein, and that no public processions of Masons clothed with the badges of the Order can take place without the special licence of the Grand Master or his Deputy.” – Antient Charge

The Last Word
• “Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.” – Bro, Roy Rogers

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