Chapter Meetings in C2 District.
St. Andrew - Muswellbrook - No. 19
Meets at the Scone Masonic Centre on the 4th Thursday of each month. Tyling at 7:30 pm
No December Meeting
Installation: - March, Tyling at 6:30pm.
Kurri Kurri - No. 49
Meets at the Weston Masonic Centre on the 4th Tuesday of each month. Tyling at 7:00 pm. No December Meeting
Installation: - October, Tyling at 7:00 pm.
Gosford - No. 173
Meets GosfordMasonic Centre on the 4th Friday each month tyling at 7.30pm
No December meeting.
Installation: September, tyling 7.00 pm.
Albert Josephson - No. 119 (Daylight)
Meets Gosford Masonic Centre on the 2nd Friday each month tyling at 10.00am
Installation: October, tyling at 10.00 am.
Chapter Meetings in C1 District.
Yacaaba - No. 180 (Daylight)
Meets at Nelson Bay Masonic Centre in the 1st Wednesday in the months of February, June and October and at Tea Gardens Masonic centre in the months of April, August and December all at 10.00 am.
Installation: June in the odd years at 9.30am

Hunter - No. 22

Meets Wallsend Masonic Centre on the 4th Monday of January, March, April, May, July, September & November, tyling at 7.00 pm.
Installation – April tyling at 7.00 pm.
New Lambton - Jubilee - No. 7
Meets at the New Lambton Masonic Centre on the 3rd Wednesday of each monthtyling at 7.00pm. Installation: July tyling at 7.00pm
Cardiff Spears Point - No. 132
Meets at the Toronto Masonic Centre on the 4th Wednesday of each monthtyling at 7.00pm. Installation: September at 7.00 pm
Chapter Meetings in E1 District.
Tamworth
Meets Tamworth Masonic Centre, Armidale Road on 4th Tuesday of each month, tyling at 7.30 pm. Installation Sat 25th August at 4.00pm
LIST OF MEMBERS
ALMOND E W / MACDOUGALL M
COLEMAN I W / PINFOLD G W
COOKE C D / QUINELL B V
EDWARDS E R / RING L R
FOXCROFT R / ROBERTS A I
FRASER G N / SWARTZ C R
HARRIS T W / SMITH W E
KEATING R I / TILSE D M
LANNIGAN J F / WOOD R
18as at 1/03/2013

St. Andrew - Muswellbrook

Royal Arch Chapter

No. 19

Under the United Supreme Grand Chapter of Mark and Royal Arch Masons of N.S.W. and A.C.T.

Dear Companion, / ______

You are specially invited to attend the Annual Installation Ceremony of your Chapter, to be held in the Masonic Centre, Kingdon Street, Scone on

Thursday, 23rd May, 2013

Tyling at 6:30 pm.

Ex Comp M. MacDougall / (Malcolm) / Z
Ex Comp B.V. Quinell / (Val) / H
V Ex Comp W.E. Smith / (Wayne) / J

Yours Fraternally,

Charles Cooke - Scribe E

"Long Hill", Miranee Road,

Gundy.NSW2337

Ph: 02-6545 8141 M/b: 0428 431 099

Fax: 02 6545 8063

Email:

½ Yearly Dues (March & September) / $______
Arrears / $______
Ritual Diary / $______
Total / $______

Dues due in March & September

DGIW - District C2

V Ex Comp Peter Hancock

110 Vulture St,

Ellalong 2325

Phone: 02 49981213

AGP - Area C

R EX Comp. Brian Johnson

Phone 02 49810680

The form of Opening the Chapter will be the Mark Master Mason Degree.

Business

  1. Minutes of the last regular convocation.
  2. Business arising from those minutes.
  3. Correspondence and Accounts.
  4. Treasurer’s Statement.
  5. General Business.
  6. Work of the Evening. - installation of Principals & Officers.
  7. Apologies and any other business
  8. Close the chapter

OFFICE BEARERS for 2013 - 2014

W Mark Master / Ex Comp Malcolm MacDougall
Senior Warden / Ex Comp Val Quinell
Junior Warden / V Ex Comp Wayne Smith
Secretary / Treasurer / V Ex Comp Charles Cooke
Chaplain / Comp Geoff Pinfold
Master Overseer / Comp Charles Swartz
Senior Overseer / Comp Dennis Tilse
Junior Overseer / Comp Ian Campbell
D of C / Ex Comp Trevor Harris
Senior Deacon / Ex. Comp. Trevor Harris
Junior Deacon / Comp. Dennis Tilse
Inner Guard / Comp. Ian Coleman
Tyler / Comp. Russell Wood

Practise: Will be Tuesday 21stMay, 2013

Would all members down for work please attend.

New Members / It is a privilege to invite a Master Mason to be a member of our Order. They should be of good standing and an asset to the chapter they join.
Supper / Companions please bring something for supper.
Apologies / Please notify Scribe Ezra if you cannot attend on 02 6545 8141 or
Toast List
Her Majesty the Queen / Ex Comp Malcolm MacDougall
First Grand Principal and Grand Master / Ex Comp. Malcolm MacDougall
WM and Officers / Ex Comp Trevor Harris
The Installing Master / Ex Comp Val Quinell
Our Guests / Comp Charles Swartz

Web address for RA Members in Area C

From the Ex. 1st Principal

Welcome to you all and thank you to everyone for their help with the installation last meeting. It turned out to be a good evening. We hope and trust that it will be a fruitful year for the chapter.

It appears that we will shortly have a candidate to join the chapter. The papers are out and we should be looking to a Mark Degree in the near future.

I should remind you all of the statement by the Most Excellent 1st Grand Principal for the brethren to "complete the journey" of Pure and Ancient masonry by doing the degrees of the Holy Royal Arch series. We should make it an aim to speak to all those members of our craft lodges and to encourage them to come and "complete the journey".

Where possible I intend to visit other chapters in our district and I invite anyone who wishes to join me to advise.

Malcolm MacDougall – First Principal

“Albano”, Upper Rouchel, Via Aberdeen 2336

(P) 02 6543 6205

(M/b) 0427 563 269

(E):

Allegorical legend

Similarly to Craft Freemasonry, the Mark Degree conveys moral and ethical lessons using a ritualised allegory based around the building of King Solomon's Temple. The events of the degree require the candidate to undertake the role of a Fellowcraft, thus the degree is seen as an extension of the Fellowcraft Degree and the philosophical lessons conveyed are appropriate to that stage in a candidate's Masonic development.

History

Following the Union of the Ancients' and Moderns Grand Lodges and the formation of the United Grand Lodge of England in 1813, the articles of union stated that there would be three Craft degrees only, including the Royal Arch, excluding the Mark degree. As Freemasonry spread around the globe in the 18th and 19th centuries, Mark Masonry became well established and now has a worldwide presence, with six daughter Grand Lodges and the degree being worked under alternative administrative structures elsewhere. In England, the current Mark Grand Master, HRH Prince Michael of Kent, is the younger brother of the Craft Grand Master, HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.