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A new Lodge in Gloucestershire (posted 9th May 2016)
Our most recent Provisional Lodge has now reached sufficient membership to enable it to become a Regular Craft Lodge. Lodge Phoenix No. 11 was Consecrated, Constituted and Warranted on 8th May 2016 in the historic town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire.
On the hottest day of the year so far the Grand Lodge Consecrating Officers performed the ancient ceremony of Consecrating, Constituting and Warranting the new Lodge. We were joined by visitors from across the country. This was then followed by the first meeting of Lodge Phoenix at which a new Candidate was initiated.
The Lodge meets in the shadow of Berkeley Castle which has the distinction of both being the the oldest home in Britain to be continuously owned and occupied by the same family (nearly eight hundred years) and the place where King Edward II was brutally murdered in 1327. The Temple has been used for Freemasonry since 1802.
The proceedings were followed, as always, by a superb meal. The perfect end to an excellent day.
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A Special announcement and a first for The Grand Lodge of Freemasonry for Men and Women (posted August 2013).
GLEFU. A NEW Grand Lodge for European Fraternity and Universality, founded in 2013 by joining together the Grand Lodge of European Fraternity and OFU (Order of Universal Fraternity) The aims of the Grand Lodge is to provide a vehicle for services to Independent European Masonic Grand Lodges with respect to their sovereign rights.
The aim of the Fraternity is to maintain a focus on Masonic aims, reduce bureaucracy, the desire of ambition and retain low costs. The basis Masonic values of freedom is essential together with the recognition of a Supreme being called God in all main religions. The V.S.L. (Volume of Sacred Law or Lore) of main recognised religions is essentially recognised and Open at every Lodge Meeting.
The new Order of European Fraternity and Universality recognises Grand Lodges which have membership of male and female Masons equally as well as Lodges which retain only male members or female only members. Intervisiting between Lodges within the membership of the Grand Order for European Fraternity and Universality is entirely in accordance with the membership of the individual Grand Lodges with respect to their own visiting rules. Membership of GLFM-
The Grand Lodge for European Fraternity and Universality practices symbolic rituals, which at present are the Craft Ritual of Emulation, the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of the Additional and Perfection degrees.