20010-11 Officers
Worshipful Master
David M. Parker, PM
Senior Warden
Gregory A Schulze, PM
Junior Warden
Warren F. Schueler,Sr., PGM
Secretary
John A. Loeb, PM
Treasurer
Arthur A. Loveless, Jr., PSGD
Senior Deacon
Frank E. Hartsell
Junior Deacon
David Gregorio
Senior Steward
Michael K. Wendeler
Junior Steward
Andrew Krueck
Chaplain
Steven Sabourin
Tiler
Edwin S. Carlisle
Officer Group Email
Awards
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us their WML Award of Excellence!
In their words,
"EXCELLENT MASONIC WEBSITE"
"WML Award 2009"
Making Good Men Better
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"Your site is very well done"
"It was indeed a pleasure to visit your site." - Ill. Brother Steven A. Morrison, 33º
"Brother to Brother Award 2009"
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We hope you enjoy your time visiting St. John's Lodge No2 "On The Net" and hope that you might come visit our lodge in person one day. On behalf of all our members, we extend a hearty and heart felt welcome.
Installations Of Officers
Congratulations to the newly installed officers of St. John's Lodge!
This year will be different from years past. In an effort to inject some creativity into our lodge meeting we will be having a
guest Worshipful Master Of The Month. Each month a Past Master of St. John's Lodge has volunteered to "run the lodge". The following
is the schedule of Master Of The Month:
July - John Loeb
August - John Loeb
September - Dave Parker
October - Gene Small
November - Tom Taylor
December - Art Loveless
January - Jim Elliott
February - Jim Elliott
March - Dave Parker
April - Herb Atkinson
May - Greg Schulze
June - Harley Spry
We are still looking for volunteers so if you are interested in helping out please contact the Worshipful Master.
Stated Communication
Here Ye! Here Ye!
The first stated communication for the Masonic Year 2010 - 2011 will be held on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at 7:30pm. Officer practice
will be on Monday, August 30th, at 6:30pm, to shake the cobwebs from our brains!
See you there!
W:.M:.
The Moon and Freemasonry
In modern masonic ritual work, the moon is referred to in the First Degree as one of the three lesser or moveable lights
and is identified as the biblical ruler of the night and as a reference of regularity for the conduct of the Master of the
Lodge. In the higher symbolism of the lodge, the moon has always been particularly identified with the Senior Warden in the West.
Some Masonic philosophers have found this to be a fitting parallel for as the light of the moon is a mere reflection of the
greater light of the sun, so the Senior Warden, the officer associated with the Doric pillar of Strength, is intended to be
a reflection of the "light" of the Worshipful Master who is associated with the Ionic pillar of Wisdom. It is thus
particularly significant that the messenger of the Senior Warden within the lodge is the Junior Deacon who, as his jewel,
wears the square and compasses enclosing the moon.
In the early eighteen hundreds when Masonry in Vermont was still a new venture, the Green Mountain State was a wild and
unsettled place. It is difficult for us to imagine the thoughts and feelings of a nineteenth century Vermont Mason stepping
into the bitter cold of a winter night after a lodge meeting to pursue his travel homeward. For him, a trip of several
miles at night after a lodge meeting was a major undertaking where even the task of finding one’s way was formidable.
For this reason, many of these early lodges in Vermont and other jurisdictions adopted the custom of holding their
meetings during the week of the full moon. Hence, these lodges became referred to as "Moon Lodges".
