Ashlar Lodge March 2016followed by a Fellow Craft Degree on March 10th. All Fellow Crafts and Master Masons are welcome and en-couraged to attend. So come out and let’s support these

Greetings! Hope all are doing well. We had our 40th annual Sweetheart luncheon on Feb-ruary 20th. Thanks to our SW Br, Oscar and to all the other Officers who made it a special day for our Widows and wives, nothing but praise from the Ladies.

RW David Rich DDGM came to vis-it our Lodge we had a great turnout and all four of our newly raised Brothers were able to sit in the East with him.

Our dirt parking lot is almost fin-ished thanks to all the hard work W:.Cannon has put in to it. Don’t forget that we are collecting items for

Corky’s Cupboard.

Some of the Upcoming events: District Instruction at our Lodge on March 9th, followed by a Fellow Craft Degree on March 10th. All Fellow Crafts and Master Masons are welcome and en-couraged to attend. So come out and let’s support these

Newly Passed Brothers. Please see the Calendar for other dates.

Fraternally,

COMMITEES

Ashlar Lodge No. 98

Free & Accepted Masons

13th Masonic District

Chartered January 18, 1888

REETINGS FROM THE EAST

Stated Communications

1st & 3rd Thursdays

7:30 P.M.

——————

Degree Work / Practices

2nd & 4th Thursdays

7:30 P.M. / 6:30 P.M.

My Brothers, in my reading I found this enlightened text on our Masonic Apron by Brother H.L. Haywood...

An Emblem of Innocence and Sacrifice

When the Candidate is invested with the garment he is told that it is an emblem of innocence. It is doubtful if Operative Lodges ever used it for such a symbolic purpose, though they may have done so in the Seventeenth Century, after Speculatives began to be received in greater numbers. The evidence indicates that it was after the Grand Lodge era, and in consequence of the rule that the Apron should be of white lambskin, that Masons began to see in its color an emblem of innocence and in its texture a suggestion of sacrifice.

In so doing they fell into line with ancient practices for of old, white “has been esteemed an emblem of innocence and purity.” Among the Romans an accused person would sometimes put on a garment of white to attest his innocence, white being, as Cicero phrased it, “most acceptable to the gods.” The candidates in the Mysteries and among the Essenes were similarly invested, and it has the same meaning of purity and innocence in the Bible which promises that though our sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow. In the early Christian church the young catechumen (or con-vert) robed himself in white in token of his abandonment of the world and his determination to lead a blameless life. But there is no need to multiply instances for each of us feels by instinct that white is the natural symbol of innocence.

Now it happens that “innocence” comes from a word meaning “to do no hurt” and this may well be taken as its Masonic definition, for it is evident that no grown man can be innocent in the sense that a child is, which really means an ignorance of evil. The INNO-CENCE of a Mason is his gentleness, his chivalrous determination to do no moral evil to any person, man, or woman, or babe; his patient forbearance of the crudeness and ignorance of men; his charitable forgiveness of his brethren when they willfully or un-consciously do him evil; his dedication to a spiritual knighthood in behalf of the values and virtues of humanity by which alone man rises above the brute, and the world is carried forward on the up-ward way.

In the Bonds of Friendship

Jim Davis

ASHLAR LODGE OFFICERS 2016

Worshipful Master: James “Rick” Bailey (386)283-0108

Senior Warden: Oscar Patterson 955-9175

Junior Warden: Bo Bozard 501-4370

Secretary: David Pierucci 460-9477

Treasurer: Bob Gagnon, P.M. 501-7446

Chaplain: James Davis, P.M. 392-4565

Senior Deacon: Matthew Sweeney 806-0571

Junior Deacon: Ken Shaffner (386)864-9162

Senior Steward: James Carrick 501-4348

Junior Steward: Robert Wilson (386)793-8725

Marshall: Brian Iannucci 708-9765

Tyler: Ron DeRoco 599-1584

Lodge Instructor: Oscar Patterson . 955-9175

Musician: Ted Cassford, P.M. 797-8710

Bob Adair Mentor Program: James Davis, P.M. 392-4565

March 2016

Lodge Phone: (904)826-4086

Brother Rick Bailey, W:.M:.

“I ask of each Mason, of each member, of

each brother, that he shall remember ever

that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to show himself in every respect a good citizen; for after

all, the way he can best do his duty by the ancient order to which he belongs is by reflecting credit upon that order by

way in which he performs his duty as a citizen of the United States." -Theodore Roosevelt

FINANCE Bo Bozard Bob Harry, PGM

B. Gagnon, PM Oscar Patterson

MASONIC EDUCATION

R. Suart, PDDGM David Pierucci B. Gagnon, P.M.

James Davis, PM Oscar Patterson

CHARITY Bo Bozard B. Gagnon, P.M.

James Davis, P.M.

SCHOLARSHIP

Matt Sweeney Oscar Patterson Garret Wolfe, P.M.

Dave Pierrucci Bo Bozard

VIGILANCE James Davis, P.M. David Braddock, PM

Oscar Patterson

PETITIONS James Davis, PM Oscar Patterson David Pierucci

Ken Shaffner Matt Sweeney

LODGE PROPERTY

Chris Cannan, P.M. Troy Usina, PDDGM Charles Metcalf, P.M.

Oscar Patterson James Davis, P.M.

Jerod Meeks

BOARD OF RELIEF

Rick Bailey, WM Oscar Patterson

Bo Bozard

RAINBOW BOARD

B. Gagnon, PM Garret Wolfe, PM

Chris Cannan, P.M. Rick Bailey, W.M.

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FRATERNAL NOTICES AND DATES

O.E.S. Chapter #12...……..…..1st & 3rd Mondays

Rainbow Assembly #42…...1st & 3rd Wednesdays

York Rite Bodies……..……...3rd Tues & 4th Mon

St. Augustine Shrine Club….….…...2nd Tuesdays

OTHER 13th MASONIC

DISTRIC LODGES

Palatka No. 34

Palatka—2nd & 4th Mondays

Lake No. 72

Crescent City—1st & 3rd Mondays

Pineland No. 86

Peniel—1st & 3rd Thursdays

Melrose No 89

Keystone Heights—2nd & 4th Tuesdays

Middleburg No. 107

Middleburg—1st & 3rd Tuesdays

Cabul No. 116

Green Cove Springs—1st Mondays

Hastings No. 183

Hastings—2nd & 4th Tuesdays

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CHARITY OF THE MONTH:

Camp Boggy Creek

Chartered January 18, 1888

March 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 Rainbow 7:00 pm

3 Stated

Communication 6:30—8:30 pm

4 5

6 7

OES

7pm-9pm

8

Shrine Club 6:00 pm Social

7:00 pm meeting

9 Dist. Instruction

(Ashlar) 7:00 pm

10

FellowCraft Degree

Supper 6:30 pm Degree 7:30 pm

11

12 Open Books (Pineland)

9 am—12 pm

13 14

15

York Rite Chapter/Council

Dinner 6:30pm Meeting 7:30pm

16

Rainbow Board

6:30 pm Rainbow 7:00 pm

17

Stated Communication 6:30—8:30 pm

18

19

Masonic Education Workshop

(MM I,II, & III)

20

21

OES

7pm-9pm

22

York Rite Commandry 6:30—8 pm

23

13th District Meeting (Palatka) 7:00 pm

24

Lodge Instruction With Br. Oscar

6:30 pm

25 26 Clay County

Fair

27

EASTER

28

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NOTES

Corky’s Cupboard items

due on March 23rd at Palatka Lodge. Let’s try to

win the challenge again this year!

<<———————-Clay County Fair (until April 2nd) ———————->>

13th Masonic District Association providing shuttle service.

Contact W:. Bill Autro if wanting to assist