OFFICIAL VISIT:

Both RI DDGM Jim Dickenson and Illustrious Grand Steward H. Warren Almand, Jr., have scheduled an official visit to Orlando Council No. 5 on 13 AUG 2009.   We will have a dinner at 6:30 p.m. prior to opening Orlando Council No. 5.

YORK RITE ONE-DAY CLASS:  

All Degrees/Orders are now set for Saturday, 26 SEP 2009 (7 a.m. - 4 p.m--at EOLA Lodge; Orlando, FL).   Lunch will be provided ($5).  All master masons are eligible to apply.   We will do courtesy work for all eligible petitioners.  Relay this information to all masonic members.  For a petition, call our RECORDER, John Fletcher (407-851-8456).  TOTAL COST:  $180.  "YORK RITE--the best-kept secret in Masonry."

YORK RITE HISTORY: 

Symbolic Degrees of EA, FC, and MM as conferred in the USA are degrees of York Rite Freemasonry.  [The first three Blue Lodge degrees are only a preparation for higher degrees].  Royal Arch Masonry became popular as more Masons sought to complete their Masonic knowledge.  Conferral of the first Knight Templar was in 1769.  Little evidence of this Order was seen until 1796 when the first encampment (now commandery) was formed in Connecticut.  The General Grand Chapter of New England States was formed in 1796.   (The PLUMBLINE, Summer, 2009).