Stated Meeting Notice

The next Stated Assembly of Houston Council No. 1, Royal and Select Masters, will be held at the Masonic Hall at 4911 Montrose Boulevard at 7:00 PM on Monday, April 11, 2022.  Members of the Council are encouraged to attend.  All Select Masters are welcome.

Proper attire is recommended.

York Masonry and the York Rite

 

by

Edward M. Selby (PGHP Ohio)

1905 - 1976

Albert Pike was a great leader in American Masonry and perhaps its greatest intellect.  He was not, however, noted for charity to an opponent.  The Scottish Rite in both Southern and Northern Jurisdictions got off to a slow start in the early years of the 19^th century.  The Southern Jurisdiction, which Pike headed (1859 – 1891), was torn asunder by the Civil War and Pike himself was attainted as a former Confederate General.  In addition, segments of the York Rite, which were by then firmly entrenched, persisted in a policy of regarding Scottish Rite Masons as a small body of Masonic elite, in which membership was predicated on previous York Rite affiliation.  Born out of impatience with this situation, Pike displayed his temper with this statement (Allocution 1876):

    Our American Masons generally have heretofore seemed to imagine that there is no Masonry entitled to the name, in the world, outside the United States; and that there is but one legitimate Rite of Masonry, the “York” Rite.  There neither is nor ever was a York Rite.  The very name asserts a falsehood.  There never was any grand lodge of York.

     Ill-humored as this statement was it nonetheless contained an element of truth, particularly if Pike is permitted to define a Masonic Rite as he once did:

     A Rite is an aggregation and succession of any number of degrees given by one or more bodies, but under the authority of a single supreme Government.

Stated Meeting Notice

 

The next Stated Convocation of Washington Chapter No. 2, Royal Arch Masons, will be held at the Masonic Hall at 4911 Montrose Boulevard at 7:00 PM on Monday, March 14, 2022.  Members of the Chapter are encouraged to attend.  All Royal Arch Masons are welcome.

Proper attire is recommended.

Stated Meeting Notice

The next Stated Assembly of Houston Council No. 1, Royal and Select Masters, will be held at the Masonic Hall at 4911 Montrose Boulevard at 7:00 PM on Monday, February 14, 2022.  Members of the Council are encouraged to attend.  All Select Masters are welcome.

Proper attire is recommended.

 

Grand Lodge Officers

Washington Chapter No. 2 R.A.M. and Houston Council No.1 R. & S.M. would like to acknowledge and congratulate the following Companions who have been appointed to positions of leadership for the Grand Lodge of Texas:

W. Comp. Kevin Todd Binder
Grand Junior Steward

R.W. Comp. Kevin Clingan, District Deputy Grand Master, Masonic District 30-A

R. W. Comp. Hunter Schappaugh PHP, District Deputy Grand Master, Masonic District 30-B

R. W. Comp. Aaron Tyksinski PHP(a), District Deputy Grand Master at Large

Comp. Charles Edward Ivy PHP, District Communications Officer, Masonic District 30-A

Comp. Jeffrey Holder, District Education Officer, Masonic District 30-G