We meet on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month at 7:30PM. Join us for dinner at 6:30PM on the 3rd Monday of the month.
"Freemasonry is a beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated by symbols."
Freemasonry is the world's oldest and largest fraternity. Through the study and practice of virtue, its members endeavor to advance their spiritual interest.
The system of morality, to which we have just referred, is that which every Mason is bound to profess and practice. It doubtless includes principles with which he was familiar before he became a Mason. These principles are presented in new ways and under forms different from those with which he was previously familiar. If he does not find in Masonic teachings anything surprisingly new, he should remember that in many respects at least there is "nothing new under the sun"; and that the essence of morality is to be found in the utter simplicity (though not the ease) of its requirements.
Freemasonry is neither a religion, a political organization, nor a social club. It interferes with none of these. It has for its foundation the basic principles of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. It teaches a belief in a Supreme Being, in the immortality of the soul, and that the Holy Book is the inestimable gift of God to man as the rule and guide for his faith and practice. It is a Fraternity or brotherhood pledged to the building of character -- thoughts, words, motives, and deeds being the materials used. It strives to teach man the duty he owes to God, his country, his neighbor, and himself. It inculcates the practice of virtue and morality in daily conduct, and it conveys its teachings through ceremonies and symbols.
To raise the moral, social, intellectual, and spiritual conscience of society by teaching the ancient and enduring philosophical tenets of Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth, which are expressed outwardly through service to God, family, country, and self under the Fatherhood of God within the Brotherhood of Man.
"The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone." Brother Joseph Fort Newton, DD, Rector of The Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany (Episcopal), Philadelphia PA. in "Short Talk Bulletin", January 1927.
