Maintained By: Committee on Masonic Education

1. Freemasonry In Kentucky Maintained By: Committee on Masonic Education Sponsored By: Grand Lodge of Kentucky F & A.M.

2. Welcome to the 2013 Masonic Ed Program. • Making the transition from Masonic Birth to Masonic Death, we explore the aspects and attributes from our Masonic beginnings and beyond, as a Craft and as Officers, culminating with a better understanding of a Masonic Funeral

3. Pledge of Allegiance

4. Masonic Education Committee James Gibson PM Chairman Woodstock #639 Rick Tyler PM Plain City #449 John Cissell PM Buechel #896 Cameron Poe PM Lexington # 1 Ricky Howard PM James W. Alley # 869

5. Most Worshipful Grand Master Christopher L. Stout Grand Lodge of Kentucky F&AM 2013

6. C. A. R. E. • C- Communicate to each other, Candidates, New brothers and in our Lodge Meetings • A- Assist Brothers, Lodges, Communities, and especially Widows • R- Respect the signs of Freemasonry, the apron you wear, and each other • E- Educate new brothers, yourselves on our Constitution, Rituals, and Lectures • C- Character (Characterbuilding is essential to Masonry) • A- Attitude ( Show a positive attitude toward and about the Fraternity) • R- Responsibility ( We have a responsibility to our obligations, and our brothers) • E- Excellence ( By striving for excellence, we create a legacy for Freemasonry in the future)

7. General Housekeeping • Exits • Bathrooms • Food, Drink, Tobacco • Breaks • Talking • Cell Phones

8. Sessions for Secretaries & Treasurers

9. Goals & Objectives • Understand the duties of the Master, and Wardens • Recognize and practice proper Masonic Etiquette • Know the process from a petition , through participating on an Investigating Committee, and through the Balloting for membership • Participate in quality ritual work, including mentoring through proficiencies

10. Goals & Objectives (continued) • Understand our Constitutions and by-laws • With the advance of technology, prepare for and understand how social media can help or hurt your Lodge • Understand the proper rites, ceremonies, and protocols for conducting or attending a Masonic Funeral

11. Resources • Book of Constitutions of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky Free & Accepted Masons • The Kentucky Monitor Henry Pirtle • The Trestle Board H.B. Grant • ThKyRtl • The Kentucky Ritual • Grand Lodge of Kentucky Public Relations Manual

12. THE MASTER’S RESPONSIBILITIES James GibsonRick Tyler

13. DUTIES OF THE MASTER(Ky Constitution Section 89) The following is a list of the powers and duties of the Master of the Lodge as outlined by the: Book of Constitutions Powers of Lodge (Sect 75) By-Laws of Lodge

14. Mastershall have power to: • Issue, or cause to be issued, all summonses or notices which may be required; • Discharge all the executive functions of his Lodge; and • Perform all acts, by ancient usage proper to his office, which are not prohibited by the Constitution or Ordinances of Grand Lodge. • Preside and have general supervision over his lodge and decide questions of law and order, but any member of the lodge may appeal from the decision of the Master to the Grand Master, and from his decision to the Grand Lodge. Sect 89 (1)

15. To see that the by-laws and resolutions of his lodge are observed, and that the constitution, rules, and edict of this Grand Lodge are duly obeyed. Sect 89 (2) • To see that monthly activity reports are promptly made to this Grand Lodge. • To attain such proficiency in the work as will enable him to conduct the ceremonies of his lodge in a creditable manner. • To call communications of his lodge as provided in BOC Section 107. • To attend: Grand Lodge, District Meeting and Educational Programs.

16. MASONICETIQUETTE

17. What We Should Know About The Master’s Authority • Shoulders all of the responsibilities • Rulings during meetings • Decides what can and cannot be discussed • Speaking after being ruled out of order can be considered a Masonic offense • Accept request by Master to serve on a Committee

18. Sitting in the East • Brethren do not take a seat without invitation from Master • Offered the Crown and gavel • Highest Ranking Grand Lodge Officer or Representative

19. Properly Clothed • Do not enter the Lodge room without apron, not even as you are tying strings • As a point of courtesy and respect, Brethren will be fully clothed and ready for labor

20. Stand when speaking • No man sits while speaking in a lodge room, no matter if he is addressing an officer or another brother • All lodge activity is based on each man in the Lodge being a servant of the Brethren. • It is simply a form of respect

21. Side Talking or Whispering • While degree work is being performed • During regular business • Shows irreverence and is considered bad manners • Unless you have requested the Master to speak, silence is the rule • The Lodge is a temple and we strive to make the best ashlars

22. Speak clear and concise. • Give proper signs and due guards • Address the brethren properly, “ Worshipful Master, Wardens, and Brethren” • Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Free & Accepted Masons • Right Worshipful, Right Reverend • Worshipful Brother • Worshipful District Deputy Grand Master

23. Speaking • To offer a motion, give a heads up to Master before meeting to ensure he can allot specific time for that topic • Ask him before hand if he will be able to recognize you to speak

24. Obey the Gavel • The Master can put or refuse to put any motion • He can rule a brother out of order at any time • He determines what will and will not be discussed • When a brother is rapped down, he must obey at once. There is a fine line between bad manners and a Masonic offense

25. Correcting Verbal Errors • No one but the Master should correct any errors during the course of ceremony or ritual • Having several brothers trying to correct causes more confusion

26. Practical Jokes or Levity • The great lessons of Masonry which are taught by our rituals should never be demeaned by levity or pranks • The Lodge room is not a proper location for the telling of jokes, pranks, levity, horseplay, or off-colored or offensive stories

27. Turn cell phones off • All cell phones should be turned off so as not to create a distraction or disrupt the Lodge proceedings • No picture taking during a Tyled meeting.

28. BE PREPARED • Annual plan • Budget • Goals (Educational – Building Plans) • Newsletter • Agenda (stated and called meetings) • Study the Parliamentary Procedure (Roberts Rules of Order)

29. RITUAL • To have knowledge of the work and lectures of the First, Second, and Third Degrees • To be knowledgeable of the ritual for conducting stated meetings • Balloting • Receiving dignitaries • Draping the charter

30. APPOINTMENTSThere really is wisdom in the council of many • Standing Committees • Special Committees • Coaches • Mentors • Ritualists

31. PRACTICEEVERYTHING • Opening / Closing • Degrees • Funerals • Balloting • Introductions

32. Additional Keys to Success. • Superintend the official acts of all officers of his lodge and to see that respective duties are properly discharged. • To have knowledge of the work and lectures of the First, Second, and Third Degrees • To be knowledgeable of the ritual for conducting stated meetings • Order of Business • Balloting • Receiving dignitaries • Draping the charter • Conduct Masonic Funerals

33. ENJOY YOURSELF • Know your responsibilities • Work on your weaknesses • Exploit your strengths • Don’t let the negatives get to you • Situations • People HAVE FUN

34. SENIOR WARDENS

35. To serve as Master in the absence of the Master; • To prepare the calendar for your year as Master; • To see that the Master’s Orders are carried out in full. • To prepare the Senior Warden's Trestle board articles, when required;

36. To prepare an estimated budget for your year as Master • To consider brethren to be appointed to the line during your year as Master and to ask them if they will serve. • To be knowledgeable of the work and lectures of the Third Degree and the ritual to qualify as Worshipful Master; • To be qualified to give the work of the Senior Warden in the three degrees; • To attend all degree practices designated by the Master.

37. HOW IS ANNUAL PLANNING DONE? • Get a Calendar for your upcoming year. • Write in those dates that you know are fixed: • Personal Dates!!!! (Birthdays, Anniversary, Vacation…) • Holidays • Stated Meetings • Installation • District Meetings • Annual Communication

38. Budget • Does your Lodge have one now? • What are you sources of income? • What will you have to spend money on?

39. JUNIOR WARDEN

40. To Serve as Master in the absence of the Master and Senior Warden. • To assist the master in the discharge of his duties. • To be knowledgeable of all work, lectures and ritual parts in the South in all three degrees. • To make sure the Stewards know their duties. • To prepare the Junior Warden's Trestle board articles, when required.

41. To make sure the Stewards are informed about degree work. • To call the craft from labor to refreshment. • To call the craft from refreshment back to labor. • The Junior Warden is in charge of the craft while the lodge is at refreshment. • To attend all degree practices designated by the master. • And in practicing degrees we now explore…

42. CIRCUMAMBULATION

43. The rite of circumambulation, derived from the Latin word “circumambulare” to walk around anything is the name given to that observance in all the religious ceremonies of antiquity which consisted in a procession around an altar or some sacred object.

44. Reference – Kentucky Monitor pg - 345 It is historically connected with the reference to the apparent course of the sun about the earth. Since in the ellipse of the ecliptic there are no square corners, a Senior Deacon, who understands the symbolism and antiquity of this rite, will avoid cutting corners at any change of direction, no matter how desirable or pretty such a maneuver may appear in a military parade.

45. The practice of walking in a circular procession around a holy place, such as an altar or other holy and consecrated object.

46. EA Degree In this degree we escort the candidate about the lodge with the guide on his right until after he is obligated. Then the guide escorts him from the left.

48. In the EA degree circumbulation is performed once around the altar so that the brethren may see that the candidate is in proper form. • Then again to the Senior Warden to teach him how to approach the east for his first step in Masonry.

49. Then again to the Senior Warden to teach him how to wear his apron as an EA Mason. • Then again to salute the wardens as a EA Mason.

50. Then again around the altar to the northeast corner to be presented his working tools of an EA. • Then finally again to the west of the altar to salute and be dismissed for the first section of the EA degree. • In this degree circumambulation is performed approximately six times.