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Welcome
Companion Dale Cyrier, Most Excellent Grand High Priest of Royal Arch Masons in Illinois, welcomes you to our website and invites you to avail yourself of our information and features. Please click here for the latest message from our Most Excellent Grand High Priest, and don't miss the joint reception with the other York Rite grand presiding officers. For the benefit of our readers outside of the U.S., the Grand High Priest is the counterpart to your First Grand Principal. official correspondence All correspondence, membership information requests and charitable donations must be transmitted through the Right Excellent Grand Secretary. [For the benefit of our readers outside of the U.S., the Grand Secretary is the counterpart to your Grand Scribe Ezra.]
RICHARD E YENA MEPGHP 2010 grand proceedings The Grand Proceedings from 2010 have been posted in an Adobe Acrobat portable data format (.pdf) file; click here to read them. This copy has been redacted to remove the personal contact information of grand officers. We have begun a project to print the recent years' grand proceedings into .pdf files and post them here. Concurrently, the Illinois Lodge of Research’s Louis L. Williams Masonic Library has begun the process of scanning the Grand Lodge's annual proceedings, and will then proceed to do the same with the Grand Chapter's. Eventually, we will be able to present you a complete, searchable archive of the proceedings. KYCH notice
Any Knight of the York Cross of Honour who has prospective candidates for the KYCH, please get the names in to Illinois Priory No. 11’s Registrar, J. Larry Martin, KYGCH, PO Box 374, Valier IL 62891-0374, as soon as practicable. |
Forthcoming degree work On Friday evening, 9 February, Fox River Chapter No. 14 will confer the Most Excellent Master (6°) and Holy Royal Arch Mason (7°), at the Geneva Masonic Temple, located at 10 South 2nd Street. Dinner begins at 6:00 p.m., with the degrees starting at 7:00 p.m. Contact Companion Michael Mitchell if you have candidates or to reserve dinner. On Saturday, 18 February, Hillsboro Chapter No. 197, in conjunction with Vandalia Council No. 28, will host a chapter/council day, conferring all four capitular degrees, at Hillsboro Masonic Temple, located at 903 South Main Street. On Saturday, 17 March, Goodbrake Chapter No. 59 will host a chapter day, conferring all four capitular degrees, at Clinton Masonic Temple, located at 926 East Main Street. On Tuesday evening, 20 March, La Fayette Chapter No. 2 will exemplify the degrees of Mark Master (4°) and Virtual Past Master (5°) in the elaborate "Blackhawk" ritual from 1914; at Chicago's Jefferson Park Masonic Temple, located at 5418 West Gale Street. On Tuesday evening, 27 March, La Fayette Chapter No. 2 will exemplify the degree of Most Excellent Master (6°) in the elaborate "Blackhawk" ritual from 1914 for the first time in decades; at Chicago's Jefferson Park Masonic Temple, located at 5418 West Gale Street. On Tuesday evening, 24 April, La Fayette Chapter No. 2 will exemplify the supreme degree of Holy Royal Arch Mason (7°) in the elaborate "Blackhawk" ritual from 1914; at Chicago's Jefferson Park Masonic Temple, located at 5418 West Gale Street. The Grand Chapters of Illinois and Wisconsin will hold our third annual interstate capitular festival on Saturday, 12 May, at which time the Sword of Bunker Hill will also be offered. The tentative plan is to host the event at the new Scottish Rite Cathedral in Bloomingdale. Details will be posted when published. Shabbona Chapter No. 37 will host a chapter day on Saturday, 19 May, conferring all four capitular degrees, at Ottawa Masonic Temple, located at 916 Columbus Street. Coffee and registration start at 8:00, with the degree work beginning by 9:00 a.m. If you have candidates or want to offer to be in the slate, ring 815-674-7933 or 815-228-0117. Notice of degree work Most Excellent Grand High Priest Dale P. Cyrier requests chapters to please advise the Grand Webmaster, the Grand Secretary, and your District Deputy Grand High Priest whenever your chapter schedules the conferral of degrees, either as individual exemplifications, chapter day or as part of a York Rite unity day. This will allow companions be aware of the upcoming events throughout the state. It will also give them the opportunity to volunteer their services if needed, support your chapter, and be positive role models for our new candidates. This will also enable chapter secretaries to contact your chapter and arrange for their candidates to receive the degrees more promptly than they might otherwise. Thank you. Please verify your chapter’s information on the directory page and the chapter history page! | |
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