‘Research chapter offers English Mark, banners presentations’

    

Massachusetts Chapter of Research will host its regular online gathering tomorrow at 7 p.m. to hear two presentations—but I don’t know where! From the anemic publicity:

We will have two speakers at our January Convocation:

Comp. Adri Leemput, of Cambridge Royal Arch Chapter, will speak on the Mark Master Degree as worked by the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England and Wales and its Districts and Lodges Overseas.

Ex. Jeffrey S. Bennett, of Arlington Chapter 376 in Texas, will continue his lecture series with a presentation on the Banners of the Veils.

If you find out where on the web this will be, please leave a comment below.

     

‘Chapter of Research speakers’

     

Even more obscure than Masonic lodges of research are the very rare Royal Arch chapters of research. In New York, we either have or had (I honestly don’t know which) Thomas Smith Webb Chapter of Research. It’s supposed to meet during the Grand Chapter Annual Convocation at Albany. (I’ll check it out next March, when Jason will be installed MEGHP.) And California has (or had, etc.) The Golden State Chapter of Research of the Holy Royal Arch, which would meet while its Grand Chapter is in session in May. And, for forty-eight years of similarly flickering light, there has been The Massachusetts Chapter of Research which meets in autumn when that Grand Chapter holds its Annual Convocation.

But it will meet virtually to host two speakers on Saturday, January 29, from 10 a.m. to noon.

M.E. Piers Vaughan, Past GHP of the Grand Chapter of New York, will present “Advancing Capitular Development.” Piers wrote the book, literally, on contemporary Royal Arch education. And R.E. Michael Bickford of Massachusetts will discuss “Biblical Imagery Throughout the York Rite Degrees.”

I don’t know if this is intended for Zoom or another service, but keep current with the chapter here or on Facebook.

Hey, Illinois has a research chapter too.