Mistley Lodge No. 2339

The festive board #Freemasonry you know the signs

Our admin is being stalled next month, has been working on the ceremonies for a year and feels horribly underprepared! It’s too late for me, but when should you really start preparing for your year to feel fully prepared??

Congratulations to Lee who won our #masonic charity darts match! Raised some loverly cash to support the North Essex and Suffolk Veterans Support Group northessexveteranssupportgroup.com

Our admin enjoyed a triple initiation at @wellington548 this week!

@MasonicFind @grok is this real?

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@kosmopolislodge Don’t suppose you’d want to perambulate at that altitude!

without oxygen 🌿

What a fabulous #BurnsNight we had at #Mistley2339 last night. Addresses to the #haggis, responses and a fabulous piper to boot!! #EssexFreemasonry at its best, with some impressive Glaswegians!!

The Lambskin Apron Among all the jewels and decorations that time has gathered about the Craft, none is so simple, and none so searching, as the Lambskin Apron. It is unadorned, unstained, and mute, yet it speaks with a voice older than crowns and more enduring than gold. Placed upon the candidate at the threshold, it does not proclaim achievement, but obligation, not honor attained, but innocence entrusted. The lamb, from immemorial antiquity, has been the emblem of purity not because it is weak, but because it is undefended. Its whiteness is not the absence of labor, but the readiness to submit to it without guile. Thus the apron teaches that the Mason enters the Temple not as a conqueror, but as a servant, bearing no trophies save a clean conscience and a willing hand. All true mastery, it whispers, begins here, at the level ground of humility. Unlike the sword or the scepter, the apron belongs to the worker. It is the badge of toil, the quiet companion of patient days, the reminder that the Great Work advances not by sudden brilliance, but by steady fidelity. To wear it worthily is to labor unseen, to correct the stone before displaying the wall, to prefer usefulness to applause. The Lambskin guards the heart against pride, even as it shields the body at work. In later years, when titles accumulate and offices pass from hand to hand, the Mason is urged to look again upon this first investiture. Its message has not altered. Rank may change, knowledge may deepen, but innocence must be preserved, and diligence renewed. If the apron is ever laid aside in spirit, the work falters, for skill without purity builds only monuments to the self. Therefore the Lambskin Apron remains, from initiation to life’s evening, a silent covenant. It binds the Mason to the discipline of service, to the courage of moral cleanliness, and to the truth that the Temple is raised not by those who shine the brightest, but by those who work the longest with the purest intent. In this humble badge is concealed the whole philosophy of the Craft, that he who would rule himself must first learn to serve.

WB John Wolton, current master of #Mistley2339 handing over a cheque for £200, collected from the brothers of the lodge, to the North Essex Veterans Support Group yesterday nevsg.com

The London Freemasons’ Charity will this year be supporting the Royal British Legion by offering matched funding for the cumulative donations from Lodges and Chapters; Shotokan Karate Lodge 9752 has made a £100 donation to this worthy cause.

Patience is the mortar that holds the stones of wisdom together. /G\

King George VI great monarch and an enthusiastic Freemason #freemasonry

Some of our brethren visited @StHelenaHospice and presented them with a cheque for £1,000 towards helping them provide their much needed services to Essex, and got a tour of their wonderful facilities. Well done brethren and thanks for all you do StHelena!! @EssexFreemasons

@richard_cann1 Stay away from news!

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This is a great story of how Freemasons help out in the province of Essex! Do we have a ‘plaice’ for you? Visit manningtreemasons.org and find out! (sorry 😛🐟) freemasonry.network/more_news/esse…