{"id":76,"date":"2025-11-24T14:24:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:58:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:58:55","slug":"lodge-of-instruction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/lodge-of-instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Lodge of Instruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lodge of Instruction is a vital part of the development of the Lodge and its members. It offers the opportunity to members to practice the ceremonies in a friendly atmosphere, add to their daily advancement in masonic knowledge and to get to know the other members better in a more relaxed manner.<\/p>\n<p>When the Lodge was Founded a Lodge of Instruction was discussed and as the Mother Lodge, Thomas Ralling was part of the Bagshaw Lodge of Instruction it was decided to be associated with that long standing Emulation LoI. As the vast majority of the Founders were already experienced masons this was felt a good compromise until the time was right to form an LoI dedicated to the Lodge itself.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012\u00a0the Lodge\u00a0decided to form its own LoI to accommodate the growing number of non Past Masters in the Lodge, and a suitable venue, The Rising Sun at Billericay,\u00a0was found and the dates decided upon. However in 2014 the venue closed and another venue sought. At present the\u00a0venue is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Venue:\u00a0<em>Cross Keys Masonic Centre, Chadwll St Mary<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dates:\u00a0<em>Alternate Thursdays, plus\u00a0Officers Nights before meetings<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sessions:\u00a0<em>September to December and January to June<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Time: 7<em>:30 pm<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first two years of the LoI has been quite successful with attendance being around\u00a06 or more at each meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Officers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preceptor \u2013\u00a0<em>W Bro\u00a0Keith Sims<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Assistant Preceptor \u2013\u00a0<em>W Bro Dave Fage<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Secretary\u00a0&amp; Treasurer\u00a0\u2013<em>\u00a0Bro Arron Cain<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lodge of Instruction moved permanently to Cross Keys in Chadwell St Mary and recommenced on Thursday 7 January 2016.\u00a0\u00a0Planned meetings for the year will be added as available. The aim of the schedule is to mix ceremony and ritual rehearsals with discussions and information sessions, called<em>\u00a0\u201cFree Sessions\u201d<\/em>. These\u00a0<em>\u201cFree Sessions\u201d<\/em>\u00a0will allow members to raise issues around Freemasonry, practice general pieces of masonry and to prepare\u00a0for being installed as the Master. So time will be spent\u00a0discussing administration issues and\u00a0what to do at the Festive Board.<\/p>\n<p>Around a week before each Regular meeting there will be a\u00a0Rehearsal of\u00a0the appropriate ceremony\u00a0at the Loughton Masonic Centre.<\/p>\n<p>2017<\/p>\n<p>21 September LoI restarts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lodge of Instruction is a vital part of the development of the Lodge and its members. It offers the opportunity to members to practice the ceremonies in a friendly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}