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Which is Frank? St. Andrews Cheque
Presentations

On Thursday 16th. April W. Brother Roger Hutchings
(WM) and W. Brother Geoff Seaman (IPM) travelled
to Weston Zoyland to present a cheque for £500 to
CEO & founder Wendy O’Carroll of the ‘Ups and
Downs South West’ Down Syndrome Support
Organisation.
After which, a return to Weston-super-Mare where
they visited Weston Hospicecare based at Uphill.
There they met CEO Gill Auden & Fund Raiser Blair
Chadwick & presented the Hospice with an additional
cheque for £500.
These charities had been chosen by the St. Andrews
Lodge previous Charity Steward Brother Lionel Curtis,
sadly who recently died and IPM Geoff Seaman for
monies raised by the Lodge during 2014.
Top picture shows Roger & Geoff with Wendy
O’Carroll, & below with Gill Auden-seated, Blair
Chadwick & two members of the nursing staff.
...Copy Geoff Seaman, pics, Ed.

Brother Frank Saint was Advanced into the Else Lodge on Tuesday 17 March 2015.
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Strangely, he arrived & asked where he should sign in? “You don’t sign in yet Frank until
you are a member” was the reply. “I’m Michael Saint” he said, “Frank’s my twin brother”!
Michael, who is Provincial Junior Deacon in the Mark Province of Northumberland,
had just driven 330 miles from Bedlington to be with his twin on this special day!
The ceremony was very pleasing for all who witnessed it & at the Festive Board Michael replied
to the visitors toast with humour & a little teasing; a successful evening for all concerned.
Frank tells me that he is the oldest, being two minutes older that ‘our kid’. Although
in Masonic terms Michael is senior having had 30 years in the Craft to Frank’s 13!
…Copy/pic, Ed.

What is the connection between Mark &

Royal Ark Mariners?

The degree of Royal Ark Mariner steps taken by Noah to build the Ark
although worked under the aegis of by which mankind was preserved from
the Grand Lodge of Mark Master perishing in the ‘Universal Deluge’
Masons, & requiring every candidate Like the Mark Master Mason’s Degree,
to be a Mark Master Mason, has no which is based on an established fact
historical connection whatsoever with i.e. the construction of the Temple
the Mark Degree. Mark Grand Lodge at Jerusalem, so the degree of Royal
rule over the ‘Ancient and Honourable Ark Mariner is also based on an actual
Fraternity of Royal Ark Mariners’ happening, i.e. the Great Flood, as
is simply a quirk of faith. It stands recorded in the Bible & as verified in the Mystery Plays of the seventeenth century & continued
entirely alone & totally unrelated to 1929 by the archaeologist Sir Leonard as catechisms in many of the early Masonic rituals. The first
any other degree in Freemasonry. Wooley, who not only found clear authentic record of the degree appears in the minutes of a
It is thought that the degree is more evidence of the flood, but established meeting held in Bath in 1790.
than two hundred years old and, as its that it had occurred some 6,000 years Acknowledgement is due to both W. Bro. John Oakley-Smith,
name suggests, it has a nautical flavour previously. Herts, from an original paper by VW. Bro. Brian A. Vickers,
taking for its setting the circumstances The legend of Noah, his sons, the Past DPGM London for the provision of this article.
leading up to the Great Flood & the Ark & the deluge were enacted in First published in Triangle Issue No. 1, September 2006.

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