Our 50th Anniversary Meeting
Added 1st December 2005
At an especial meeting on 20th April 2002 to celebrate of our 50th Anniversary, the Lodge was proud to welcome the demonstration team of the CTO & Telecoms Masonic Association
The Meeting Agenda read:
The demonstration of this initiation ceremony, by members of the C.T.O. & Telecoms Masonic Association in costume of the period, represents a Lodge meeting of the Union No.1 Lodge at the Union Hotel, Royal Square, St Helier, Jersey, held in October 1765. The Lodge met in one of the upper rooms of the hotel. This was the first permanent Lodge in Jersey whose warrant was issued in April 1765 by Thomas Dobree, the Provincial Grand Master for Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney and Mann. The Lodge was duly registered in the Grand Lodge of England as "Lodge No. 349, A Lodge Union No.1 constituted in the Town of St. Hillary, in the Island of Jersey". Its first Master was an Antient mason and though working under a Modern warrant worked the Antient ritual.
The C.T.O. & Telecoms Masonic Association makes no pretense of showing an actual ritual as worked by this first Jersey Lodge; there is too little information available to do that. What they aim to show is what a mason visiting the Union Lodge No.1 might have seen in 1765. The ceremony depicts Lodge work of the 1760s and is compiled by V.W.Bro. Brig. Jackson CVO, CBE, ADC (Ret), PGSwdB and given to the Association in 1968 by the late W.Bro. Harry Carr OSM, PJGD, Secretary of the Quator Coronati Lodge No.2076.
It is hoped the demonstration will provide the brethren who see it with some interesting Masonic entertainment, advancement in knowledge of Masonic history and perhaps even stimulate some brethren into Masonic research. Above all, however, the demonstration is given in order to raise money for the Masonic charities. Accordingly your generosity is always appreciated when the Broken Column is circulated.
The demonstration lasts about one and a half hours and commences with an introductory talk by one of the members.
The lights in the Temple are then lowered.....
and we are transported.....
back in time.....
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