Category: Events

A 1st Degree on St. John The Baptist Day

What a better way to celebrate St. John the Baptist Day on Friday, June 24th, than with a 1st degree conferral for one of our candidates. We were also joined by 2 visiting brethren from Hesperia Lodge #411 along with their Bro. Secretary (also a member of our Lodge). St. John the Baptist The first Grand Lodge was formed in …

2022 Installation of Officers

On Sunday, January 30 2022, at Jefferson Masonic Temple in Chicago, a new slate of Lodge Officers was duly installed for the ensuing Masonic year. As we saluted and applauded W. Bro. Brad Johnson for his tenure during a challenging year (see previous post), we welcomed our newly installed W.M. Brett A. Barnes who now sits in the East with …

Happy St. John’s Day!

On December 27, Freemasons celebrate The Feast of St. John the Evangelist. As we first learned in our 1st Degree lecture, he is one of the two Christian patron saints of modern #Freemasonry. This day also marks the Winter Solstice that happens every year when the Sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, when the …

Communications Meeting in Person & Zoom

Join us on October 8th, 2021 as our WM Bradley Johnson and a delegation from our Lodge are at the Grand Lodge Communication in Springfield, IL. Due to the new state mandated mitigations for the COVID-19 pandemic the Grand Master again allowed us to simulcast the business portion. We will be having a roundtable discussion and Q & A on …

3 New MMs

August 27 was a busy evening at KING OSCAR LODGE No. 855 A.F. & A.M. where 3 of our brethren were proud to receive their 3rd degree conferral. Congrats to Bro. Arlander, Bro. Rod, and Bro. Josh for having reached the top! A special thanks to all those who assisted in the degree work as once again we used all …