Thank you for the encouragement & what you wrote in this article. It is daunting for me as a newly EAF visiting other Lodges, this provided me confidence moving forward 🙏
I didn't join Masonry until I was 51 (now 82)... I made my first visit with two new friends shortly after proving up in the Third Degree... I loved it. Since then I have visited about 250 other Lodges from Whitehorse in the Yukon to here in Mexico and lots of places in between. About 12 years ago another fellow and myself started a breakfast get together every Friday morning and it still goes. I have acted as secretary for two DDGM's and with the second one we put 27,000 kms. on and visited every Lodge in our huge District at least 3 times.
Here in Mexico I live in the small village of Ajijic on the northwest shore of Lake Chapala... we get a few guys together and visit quite a few times to Guadalajara 50 kms. away... I have also visited Lodges in Leon, Guanajuato and Puerta Vallarta. It took me 10 years but I finally got my Canadian G. L. to recognize a Grand Lodge in another town on the lake but thus far have only attended social functions as it is all in Spanish.
Because of a pique with a couple of officers in the Lodge here... I have demitted... BUT I still belong and am in contact with my Mother Lodge AND I was involved at the start, and am still with Castle Island Virtual Lodge No. 190 in the G. L. of Manitoba and attend quite often to weekly educational meetings that are on Zoom... my Masonic friendships are worldwide as a newer virtual Lodge called Endeavour Lodge has gone live on Zoom from Melbourne, Australia.
Thank you for the encouragement & what you wrote in this article. It is daunting for me as a newly EAF visiting other Lodges, this provided me confidence moving forward 🙏
I didn't join Masonry until I was 51 (now 82)... I made my first visit with two new friends shortly after proving up in the Third Degree... I loved it. Since then I have visited about 250 other Lodges from Whitehorse in the Yukon to here in Mexico and lots of places in between. About 12 years ago another fellow and myself started a breakfast get together every Friday morning and it still goes. I have acted as secretary for two DDGM's and with the second one we put 27,000 kms. on and visited every Lodge in our huge District at least 3 times.
Here in Mexico I live in the small village of Ajijic on the northwest shore of Lake Chapala... we get a few guys together and visit quite a few times to Guadalajara 50 kms. away... I have also visited Lodges in Leon, Guanajuato and Puerta Vallarta. It took me 10 years but I finally got my Canadian G. L. to recognize a Grand Lodge in another town on the lake but thus far have only attended social functions as it is all in Spanish.
Because of a pique with a couple of officers in the Lodge here... I have demitted... BUT I still belong and am in contact with my Mother Lodge AND I was involved at the start, and am still with Castle Island Virtual Lodge No. 190 in the G. L. of Manitoba and attend quite often to weekly educational meetings that are on Zoom... my Masonic friendships are worldwide as a newer virtual Lodge called Endeavour Lodge has gone live on Zoom from Melbourne, Australia.
Yes, I love visiting!