Next Meeting August 30

St. Lawrence the Martyr

Our next meeting is the next 5th Monday of the month, which will be August 30, 2021.

Come learn about St. Lawrence.

MARCH 29 MEETING

 IT SOON WILL BE MEETING TIME AGAIN!

Come on down to Chappell Hill Monday March 29 for our AMD meeting.  Bring your books, regalia and come to fellowship, to learn and to conduct business.

St Lawrence the Martyr

This degree explains the story of St. Lawrence the Martyr and reminds us, yet again, that fidelity to a noble cause is greater than mere acceptance of humans.  The degree has been worked in England for over 200 years teaching the lessons of fortitude and humility.

The candidate represents a brother about to proceed on his journeys into foreign lands seeks the hospitality of like minded brothers.  Aprons are white edged in 1.5 inch royal blue ribbons with orange in the center.

St.Lawrence was thought to have been born on December 31, AD 225. He was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome, Italy, under Pope Sixtus II.  These deacons were martyred during the persecution of the Christians that the Roman Emperor Valerian ordered in AD 258. 

NOV 30, 2020 Meeting

 IT’S MEETING TIME AGAIN!

Come on down to Chappell Hill Monday Nov. 30 for our AMD meeting.  Bring your books, regalia and come to fellowship, learn and to conduct business.

Order of the Secret Monitor

As early as 1778 there was a society in Holland known as the Order of Jonathan and David. This Dutch society became Masonic.  There is the following statement: "From the foregoing documents it is not possible to determine whence they issued or derived their authority. The names, however, of De La Garde, Bergh, Dalmencourt, De Consalvin, are to be found on old documents and certificates issued by a Chapter named ‘Jesus,’ and another called ‘Jonathan and David,’ of Avignon, France, in 1778.

June 30 Meeting

In addition to our usual business at our June 30 meeting we reviewed and read through the Royal Ark Mariner degree.

Many Masons view the Royal Ark Mariner as just a quaint, short little degree about Noah’s Flood whose members wear rainbow colored aprons. It is often dismissed as being of very little ritual significance. This could not be more wrong. 

Those who are ‘elevated’ as Royal Ark Mariners, and who take the slightest interest in Ark Masonry, soon realize that it is simple and beautiful, rather than superficial or trivial.  The great point about the Royal Ark Mariner, as many have said, is that it further develops the idea that is the keynote of initiation: the making of a new beginning or the adoption of a new outlook on life.

June 30 Meeting is a GO!

G. C. Sanders AMD Council WILL be holding its June 30 meeting in Chappel Hill Texas Monday.  Y’all come.


The Chappell Hill Deli and Bakery is open should you care to dine before the meeting.  Otherwise meet at the lodge at 7:00 PM

Time to start getting back into the swing of things.

March 30, 2020 Meeting Cancelled

Our regular meeting scheduled for Monday, March 30, 2020, has been cancelled due to the rapid spread of coronavirus.  Hopefully our next regular meeting in June will have us past all of this.

Dec. 30, 2019 Stated Meeting

Information forthcoming after the meeting

Degrees of Significance

By A. Brother, excerpted from Allied Masonic Degrees – Degrees of Significance

The degrees of the Allied Masonic Degrees do not specifically relate to each other.  Some have erroneously described them as a bunch of rather secondary degrees which no-one else really wanted and which should have been allowed to die out.  Yet these degrees contain masonic ally significant elements, two of them with great ritual importance.