Lodge News

Last night we had a great dinner followed by the presentation of the Awards of Honesty and Integrity upon two very well qualified High School Seniors by our Grand Master, Most Worshipful Woody D. Bilyeu. He honored our lodge by visiting and sharing his vision of honesty and integrity and presenting the awards to the...

Our annual Honesty and Integrity awards will be presented. You will have the chance to meet the worthy recipients and their proud families. We have a chance to show them how we value honesty and integrity.

Our Grand Master for this 2010 year is Most Worshipful Woody D. Bilyeu. Our best wishes to him for a great year. One of the most interesting resolutions passed assured that next years Grand Lodge Meeting will be in Baton Rouge.

Our government, both in the lodge and in our nation, contains ways for the needs of the majority to be satisfied while there are checks and balances to prevent a ‘tyranny of the majority’ from trampling the rights of the minority.

The St. James’ degree team, under the able direction of our Brother and Senior Warden, Jimmy Robinson, started our Masonic year on December 12th, by raising three new Master Masons.

A LOOK BACK ON 2009 Being Master of St. James Lodge No. 47 has been a great honor and privilege for which I thank all of my Brothers, you who have done the work while I had most of the fun.

Masonic Education in the monthly Newsletter of St. James Lodge will begin with this issue by including excerpts, as space permits, from the HANDBOOK OF MASONIC LAW, THE GRAND LODGE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS. The selected excerpts from the HANDBOOK OF MASONIC LAW (H.O.M.L.) reflect answers and guidance to some...

Your Worshipful Master for 2009 can see the light at the end of the tunnel for his year and is finally getting comfortable with what he is supposed to be doing. I appreciate the cooperative spirit and the many offers of assistance given to me by the Brothers. This year has been great fun and...

First, I apologize for succumbing to the scam about the planet Mars and its close proximity to earth that did not occur on August 27. One can find almost anything on the Internet, some of which is excellent, some is wrong, some is pure trash.