Craft & Chapter Installation Meetings
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Frenni Lodge, at the Masonic Hall Cardigan, Tuesday 5th May 2015.
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Full details of all Craft and Chapter Installations are available to download on the website, by clicking here. |
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The Festival Dinner will take place on Friday 15th May 2015 at the Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli. The reception starts at 4.00pm, with dinner and entertainment scheduled to start at 6.00pm and finish by 10.00pm.
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Milford Haven Charity Night
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The St Padarn Lodge Ladies Evening is on Saturday 9th May 2015 at the Llety Parc Hotel, Aberystwyth. Full details can be found here.
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The 2015 Masonic Caravan Club Schedule has been released and is available to download on the Provincial website. Click here to get your copy. |
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The West Wales Mason Magazine and 2015 Year Book are currently being prepared. If you would like to promote your business, why not place an advert with us? For full details reply to this email.
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Freemasonry Cares offers
free and confidential
guidance on the wide range of financial,
healthcare and family help
available to Freemasons and their dependants. Contact Freemasonry Cares on 0800 0356090 for advice. You can view a video about their work by clicking on the image above, or by clicking here.
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Follow the Province on Social Media
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Follow the Province (including the Provincial Grand Master) on Social Media by clicking on the images.
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And Finally....................
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Richard Warburton Lodge 9767
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The Richard Warburton Lodge was founded in 2003 to commemorate the Late Richard Warburton, the former Provincial Grand Secretary and all too briefly Provincial Grand Master designate. Until now, membership of the Lodge has been restricted to secretaries and scribes, but at a recent meeting of the lodge the By-Laws were changed to allow all Masons in the Province to join.
At the instigation of the Provincial Grand Master, The Richard Warburton Lodge is to become a lodge of education and information. A centre of excellence within the Province which will provide bespoke training and specialist seminars throughout the Province on a range of different subjects. The Lodge will also be the base of the new Provincial Demonstration Team aimed at showing how well delivered ritual makes a big difference to the enjoyment of the Brethren. Finally the lodge will be the home of the Provincial Masonic Research Team who will research and write a paper each year on a topic chosen by the members of the lodge.
Participation in all these exciting new ventures is open to all masons within the Province. Please contact the Richard Warburton lodge secretary, James Ross, asec@wwmason.com in the first instance. |
Provincial Church Service
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The Annual Provincial Church Service is to be held in
St. Padarn’s
Church, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth, on Sunday 10th May
2015,
commencing at 3:00 pm. Click here for full details of the day. |
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Aeron Lodge's Super 6 in possession of the Travelling Gavel. Da iawn.
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Worshipful Master of Aeron Lodge 7208, W Bro Tommy Jones led a team of Aeron Lodge members to the Peterwell Lodge meeting on Thursday 16th April 2015. Their reward was to come away in possesion of the West Wales Travelling Gavel. The team is pictured above, with W Bro Tommy holding the gavel. |
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The St Padarn 13 Claim the Gavel |
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The Travelling Gavel is now back at the beginning with Saint Padarn Lodge, who made sure they
claimed it with a healthy visitation of 13 to their sister lodge Aeron
on the 23rd of April (total visitors 21). It could be your lodge hosting
21 visitors at a domestic meeting, you just need to claim
the Traveling Gavel!
The Gavel has been successfully making its way round the province prompting visits to various domestic meetings and boosting numbers at the festive board greatly. So far it has been round Pembrokeshire and is currently touring Ceredigion.
The last meeting of Saint Padarn before the recess is on Thursday 21st of May tyling at 6:30 pm and lodge officers are conferring a fellow craft degree on Bro David Cooper.
Will the Traveling Gavel stay in Ceredigion or return to Pembrokshire or even make its first venture across the border to Carmarthenshire ?
If it is not claimed at Saint Padarn in May it will be there until November, so why not plan a road trip, but please remember to contact the Assistant Secretary W Bro Peter Matthys on 01974 831 451 or email:- p.matthys@btinternet.com by Monday 18th May. |
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From left to right - Bro Ian Brodie, RW Bro Stephen D Hookey
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Bro Ian Brodie returned from his recent trip to Australia bearing gifts. Bro Ian went to visit Bro Gwyn Joseph, the maker of The Provincial Travelling Gavel at his home in Sydney. Not only was Bro Ian afforded a fantastic Aussie welcome, but he was also presented with three beautifully hand-crafted pens made from the same piece of Mulga wood as the Travelling Gavel. The pens were made to acknowledge the contribution made by RW Bro Stephen Hookey, Provincial Grand Master; W Bro James Ross, Provincial Assistant Grand Secretary and Bro Ian himself in setting up and launching the Provincial Travelling Gavel in 2014.
Bro Ian arranged to present the pens at the recent Installation meeting of the Kensington Lodge of Installed Masters in Llanelli. This was a particularly fitting venue as Bro Gwyn has many happy memories of his early years in South Wales and he especially enjoyed his visits to the Masonic Centre in Llanelli.
As can been seen in the photo, all three lucky recipients of the pens were delighted to receive them and they have proved to be quite a talking point at subsequent meetings!
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