Knight Masons Annual Festive Board

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DATE:  March 16, 2017
TIME:   Social hour around 5pm, festivities begin about 6 pm
LOCATION:  Wings and More Party Room 

Why a Festive Board?  Knight Masons councils are honorary bodies who extend invitations for membership to active, hard-working Royal Arch Freemasons. The membership includes many of the leaders of Masonry in the United States, and is considered an honor earned by service to the craft. In the United States, Freemasons are not supposed to ask for membership in Knight Masonry, but rather wait to be invited.

One of the purposes of Knight Masonry is to "encourage its constituent councils to discover in the pleasures and diversions of the festive board that warm fellowship and that joyous fraternity, which have ever characterized and actuated the great spirit of this Ancient Craft." We do this through our annual festive board in honor of St. Patrick on or near St. Patrick's Day each year.

Other purposes of Knight Masonry include:

• Perpetuate the ancient rituals of the Irish Masonic Canon, (the "Green" degrees).  The Grand Council of Knight Masons was formally constituted in Ireland in 1923 to look after the degrees which were previously worked by Royal Arch chapters, commanderies of High Knight Templars and even a Rose Croix chapter. These “Green” degrees are ancient and are, in essence, Old Testament based.

• Elevate to membership only those Freemasons who in their character and persons have amply and thoroughly demonstrated in their Masonic lives a true and honorable record of service to its goals, and a genuine dedication to its high ideals.

• Foster in its constituent councils the regular exploration and study of the Masonic Tradition and Heritage and to pursue that Masonic learning in the spirit of our Celtic forbears who kept the light of faith burning in times of darkness.

• Promote the charitable dimension so central to, and inherent in, Masonic life.