Heredom Lodge in Weston
On November 23, a new lodge was granted dispensation by our Grand Lodge in order for the brethren of Heredom Lodge UD to now provide Observant Masonry in Toronto. The ceremony was carried out in darkness with the exception of candle lights. The visitors entered the lodge room, while listening to Haydn's piece called "Die Schopfung" - translated as The Creation - and each then stood silently awaiting the entrance of the members of our other two Ontario-based Observant Lodges who would first sit in the officers chairs to open, and they were followed shortly thereafter by the soon-to-be seated officers of Heredom Lodge.
After the traditional opening and Toronto Humber Valley's DDGM reading the dispensation, and a presentation delivered related to the music and its significant import, while "Im Anfange schuf Gott Himmel und Erde" was played - which translates to In the Beginning God created Heaven and Earth - and RW Bro Gareth Taylor provided insight in to the formation of the lodge itself, there was nothing left to do except close.
The WM and his officers, having been duly placed in their chairs, closed the lodge, and we then went downstairs at the Weston Masonic Hall for a banquet. The room was set up in the manner of a Table Lodge, with a Head Table (at which I sat next to RW Bro Tom Hogeboom, our DGM, who had overseen the ceremony and who after dinner delivered an excellent presentation on the Millennial generation) forming the bottom of a "U" and at the top were seated the JW and SW of Heredom Lodge, and there were also two rows of tables in between filled with excited brethren from across the province who had witnessed history.
After the traditional opening and Toronto Humber Valley's DDGM reading the dispensation, and a presentation delivered related to the music and its significant import, while "Im Anfange schuf Gott Himmel und Erde" was played - which translates to In the Beginning God created Heaven and Earth - and RW Bro Gareth Taylor provided insight in to the formation of the lodge itself, there was nothing left to do except close.
The WM and his officers, having been duly placed in their chairs, closed the lodge, and we then went downstairs at the Weston Masonic Hall for a banquet. The room was set up in the manner of a Table Lodge, with a Head Table (at which I sat next to RW Bro Tom Hogeboom, our DGM, who had overseen the ceremony and who after dinner delivered an excellent presentation on the Millennial generation) forming the bottom of a "U" and at the top were seated the JW and SW of Heredom Lodge, and there were also two rows of tables in between filled with excited brethren from across the province who had witnessed history.
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