Download the PDF for printing and distribution (click here) New Mexico Freemason February 2024 ∴ Volume 2023 ∴ Issue 11 In this issue: 2024 Is Active and Started! Pleyel’s Hymn Lyrics Just a Month Away! Dona Ana Bringing Light and Fraternity Happy Year of the Dragon! Brother Across Time and Jurisdiction Jobs’ is On […]
2024 Is Active and Started! Fun and Community to Start a Great Year. By: Thomas L. SchenkGrand Master of Masons in New Mexico What a busy month January has been, I have had the great opportunity to visit many Lodges, Youth Group functions, Shrine events and even attend the Grand Lodge of Texas. I can
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Pleyel’s Hymn Lyrics The Only Prescribed Music in Our Ritual. By: Bert DaltonGrand Musician The Lyrics of “Solemn Strikes the Funeral Chime” were written by Bro. David Vinton, 1774-1883, a silversmith, merchant, and itinerant Masonic lecturer. He was born in Bedford, Massachusetts, apprenticed in Boston, and moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where he opened a
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Just a Month Away! Registration is LIVE for the Annual Communication! By: Annual Communication Committee Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Here Ye- All the details regarding the 2024 Annual Communication of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of New Mexico have been released! Please check your emails, NM Freemasons Facebook page, Grand Lodge of New Mexico webpage
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Dona Ana Bringing Light and Fraternity Leadership Education Opportunity in Las Cruces. By: Joseph BeckhamWorshipful Master Dona Ana Daylight Lodge No. 78 Join us in practicing three fundamental aspects of leadership. Dona Ana Daylight Lodge is hosting Executive Training for Volunteer Organizations that has been taught nationwide (and internationally online) for over 10 years! The
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Happy Year of the Dragon! Symbols of Masonry in the World By: Burx NorrodSandoval Lodge No. 76 In honor of the Lunar New Year 2024, the Year of the Dragon, widely celebrated in China and various Asian countries, I want to highlight the oldest symbols of Freemasonry that I’ve come across. These symbols are depicted
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Brother Across Time and Jurisdiction A Traveling Man’s Report Volume III By: John P. KeelSandoval Lodge No. 76 Fraternal greetings! This latest volume is more about a newly made brother than the trip I made to go see him initiated into Freemasonry. I have known Ramiro “Ray” Rendon for many years and he has been
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Greetings, everyone! I am Peace McKenzie, the recently appointed Honored Queen of Sandoval Lodge No. 76 in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. I want to extend my heartfelt congratulations to my fellow officers as they embark on their upcoming term, and also commend Sandoval Lodge No. 76 for their recent officer installations. I extend an open
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Continuing Your Lodge Journey Why Should I Join York Rite? By: James Lamb Grand Commander Grand Commandery of Knights Templar The symbolic Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft, and Master Mason, as conferred in the United States, are degrees of the York Rite. York Masonry is the oldest and best known of all Masonic Rites. It
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Gavel Visits Back in Style? Liberty Lodge Visit to Edgewood Lodge Liberty Accepts District 5Traveling Gavel. Photo courtesy of Cameron Colfack. On February 6, Members of Liberty Lodge from Santa Rosa visited Edgewood Lodge. Worshipful Master Eleazar Romon LaPalma Lisboa, accompanied by WB Don Sultemeier, WB Travis McKenzie, and Brother Dusty Leonard, EA. Being a
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