While Masonic activities take a pause for the summer, our Lodge of Honour Curry Club carries on. In fact, the Curry Club in August saw some 9 members and friends attending which is more than the average. We met this time at Thai Basil on Walcot Street.
After months of preparations, the day finally arrived. An Emergency Meeting was held to perform a Raising Ceremony for one of our junior members. A Raising is always a special occasion as it is a true and ‘final’ induction into the craft of freemasonry. For this particular junior member, this event was made even more special with his father in attendance.
On Thursday, April 4, 2024, Lodge of Honour members including the WM, DC, ADC, Secretary and Tyler were at the Provincial Annual General Meeting. Held in Webbington Hotel near Axbridge, Somerset, it was a significant gathering of approximately 600 Freemasons from all over Somerset and beyond.
Fresh from a double initiation in February, we jumped into our March meeting with another double. This time, a double second for the same candidates.
The last time the Lodge of Honour had a Double Initiation was when the current Secretary was in the Chair of KS, way back in 2019. This together with the Membership Challenge Visit (MCV) from members of the province and a member’s 40th anniversary celebration as a mason as well as coinciding with the Lodge’s 199th anniversary made our first meeting of 2024 truly memorable.
After a long break from freemasonry, and with Christmas and New Year out of the way, our Curry Club met again in January. We reached out to lodges that meet in Bath and had members from Royal Sussex Lodge and Royal Cumberland Lodge joined us.
The Lodge of Honour and Priory Lodge no 6913 have always had a special relationship. Some of the members of our lodge are also members there and we had regular visitors joining each others meetings.
October’s Curry Club gathering was nothing short of sensational. As the esteemed members of the lodge, cherished guests, and aspirants for the Lodge of Honour converged, the air was filled with anticipation and the rich aroma of Thai spices wafting from the Thai Balcony.
Although summer feels like it is still here, with warmer days in autumn, the show must go on. We reopened again after the summer break with a brother’s ceremony of passing at the Lodge of Honour.
We finally got into The Grand Eastern and were seated at a roundtable which makes it better to converse with one another, especially beyond your immediate neighbour. Food was a little slow but we had each others’s company.