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Welcome

Companion Chuck Horwitz, 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.

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
PO BOX 1180
LAGRANGE PARK IL 60526-9280
office phone:   708-482-0312
email:                  Grand Secretary

2009 Grand Proceedings

The Grand Proceedings from 2009 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.

Forthcoming
Degree Work

DeKalb Chapter No. 52 will host a capitular festival on Saturday, 25 September, at the DeKalb Masonic Temple, located at Fairview Drive & South 4th Street. Chapters are encouraged to send candidates; a registration fee of US$10.00 per candidate is required to be paid to DeKalb Chapter. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., with the degree of Mark Master (4°) to begin at 9:00 a.m. The degrees of Past Master [Virtual] (5°), Most Excellent Master (6°), and Holy Royal Arch Mason (7°) will follow, along with lunch. Lunch is provided gratis to the candidates; current companions are asked for a US$5.00 donation. Contact Companion Jim Tome, EGM2V, for more information or to schedule your candidates.

Notice of Degree Work

Most Excellent Grand High Priest Charles R. Horwitz 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.

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 recorder, Edward E Derry KYGCH, PO Box 227, Washington IL 61571-0227, as soon as practicable.

Please verify your chapter’s information on the directory page and the chapter history page!

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This site was last updated 08/16/10