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January & February 2012
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Stated Meetings |
Stated meetings are held the first Monday of each Month at 7:30 pm, dinner at 6:30 pm except July & August |
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Grand Lodge Meeting |
January 14, 2012
Founders Day at the Scottish Rite
8:30am, Master and Wardens
and ALL Masons are invited. |
Mooresville Lodge
800 Indianspolis Rd
Mooresville, IN
See directions below. |
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Monday Craft Practice |
January 23, 2012
Practice starts at 7:30pm |
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Fellow Craft Degree |
January 30, 2012 (Monday)
Eat at 6:00pm
Work at 7:00pm |
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| February - Stated Meeting |
February 6, 2012 (Monday)
Eat at 6:30pm
Work at 7:30pm |
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| February - Craft Practice or Fellowcraft Degree |
February 20, 2012 (Monday)
Work at 7:00pm |
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| February - Craft Practice or Fellowcraft Degree |
February 27, 2012 (Monday)
Work at 7:00pm |
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| 2012 Annual Dues |
Dues for 2012 will reamin at $60 and were due on or before January 01, 2012.
If you are having difficulty in paying your annual dues please contact the Lodge Secretary immediately at 431-5093.
Suspension Trials are in April. |
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Brothers,
I want to thank you for electing me as your Junior Warden for 2012. Indianapolis Lodge was very busy in 2011 and it looks like we are going to be just as busy for 2012. For those of you who have not been to Lodge in awhile, come back we need your support and would love to see you again. If you are a little "rusty" with the signs and words, don't worry we are here to help you, don't let that be the reason you are staying away. We meet on the first Monday of each month and have dinner at 6:30pm with the meeting starting at 7:30pm. There are lots of new faces, and some familiar ones too. Come and join us in Masonic fellowship. Indianapolis Lodge is also on the lookout for new members, so if you have a son, grandson, great grandson, or a man that might be interested in joining let us know or ask for a petition. We would love to be doing Degree work all year long. I will have more to say in subsequent newsletters, until then be well.
Sean Wayne Jones
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Happy Birthday - to all Lodge members having birthdays this month.
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Masonic License Plates:
If you want to display a Masonic license plate on your car, truck or motorcycle, contact the Lodge Secretary at (317) 539-6556.
Lodge Scholarship Winners:
The following students were selected for the Lodge scholarships for 2011:
- Sara Steinwalt
- Zane West
- Brittney Clark
Congratulations to each of you!
Scholarship Applications for 2012:
Applications for the Lodge Scholarship are being accepted. Member Master Masons and their college-bound children, step-children, grand-children, great grand-children of current members or deceased members of the Lodge are eligible. Indianapolis Lodge No. 669 awards three $750 scholarships each year to deserving Masonic children. Contact the Lodge Secretary, Whit Smith for information and applications. Applications are due by May 1, 2012.
Scottish Rite Scholarships are also available by contacting them at (317) 262-3100.
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Masonic Education The intent of this article is to show that substantial increases in attendance are possible provided the Master dares to be different. This does not imply the need to experiment with so called "up-to-date" methodologies. On the contrary, it requires stimulating those members we already have as well as those whol will be voluntarily attracted into our midst with pure and unimpaired Freemasonry. The sooner we stop blaming poor attendance on the failure of the Craft to modernize, the better. The last substantial influx of new members into Freemasonry occurred over forty years ago. Since then, many reasons have been suggested for the decrease in attendance. Members have moved away from the metropolitan area lodges. Once in suburbia they become accustomed to more leisure time, more holidays, and longer vacations. Some turn to service clubs, where the results of their participation may be more apparent. Others find that civic responsibilities take up their evening hours. Family ties now take precedence over fraternal ties. For some, longer work hours and the pressure of doing business at night are contributing factors. The majority, however, do not attend simply because they choose not to attend. They are bored to tears with business meetings. Those who are not ritualists find little inspiration sitting on the sidelines listening to the same brethren perform the degree work and give the lectures time after time. Their contentions are real and cannot be brushed aside. We live in an achievement oriented society that views ambiguous programs with skepticism. Mediocrity no longer suffices. It is time Masonic leaders stopped saying " something should be done" and begin saying "I'm going to do something about it." The call to the Master is the same today as it was when candidates petitioned in droves: to create an atmosphere for intellectual and spiritual growth so that members know from experience they are misisng something by not attending lodge. Merely to suggest programs that others find helpful is only part of the answer. What may work for one lodge may not necessarily work for another. Symbolic Lodge Masonry cries out for an enlightened membership responsive to the Master who carefully lays his designs upon the trestleboard. The approach, therefore, includes preparing the members as well as the Master. There are no shortcuts.
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Directions (click here for a MapQuest Map)
- Go South on State Rd 67 to Old 67 Road at Mooresville, IN (This is the first traffic light after the Meijer store)
- Turn right on Old 67 Road, go approximately 1 mile
- Turn right on Indianapolis Road (which is just before the curve)
- Go over the railroad tracks, up the hill, approximately a half mile
- Mooresville Lodge will be on the left.
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