Category: masonry
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I recently found out that the mother of a very good friend passed away. I hadn’t talked to my friend in some time. We seem to have a love/hate relationship, where we talk for some time, but then ultimately one of us does or says something that…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners *Editors Note* Originally published in 2018 here on the Midnight Freemasons Blog, I thought with a recent publication in the Fraternal Review, I would republish it here. It was read on the WCY Podcast as well in April of 2020, episode 442. It has a lot to…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I had a local brother, Jim Licquia, email me this weekend asking me to write a column to address some questions he had. While it’s too early to assess this, I will attempt to answer his questions, because they are questions that all of us have thought…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners The degree system of craft Freemasonry is centered on the building of the Temple of Solomon and the story of its chief architect, Hiram Abiff. According to the non-cyphered Book of Standard Work of my Grand Lodge(IL), “The Temple at Jerusalem was supported by fourteen hundred fifty-three…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners August 19, was what would have been the 98th birthday of Star Trek’s creator, Gene Roddenberry. As luck would have it, I injured my back somehow last Wednesday which put me in bed for the better part of that evening and most of Thursday. There was a…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here Spoilers Ahead! I am, as well as many of you, very excited to see the how Game of Thrones ends on HBO. The television series is based upon the Fantasy book series called “A Song of Ice and Fire”…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I was in a local gas station here in the booming metropolis of Saint Joseph, Illinois, when the clerk remarked, “The Masons? I didn’t even know you guys were still around.” It took me a minute to realize that I was wearing one of my shirts from…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Joseph Brant was a Native American war chief of the Tribe of Mohawk who sided with the British during the American Revolutionary War. Born in 1742, while his parents were on a hunting trip, he was born on the banks of the Ohio River. He was named…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor Darin A. Lahners I recently wrote regarding a dilemma that I was facing in one of the Lodges that I belong to. You can read that article HERE. If you want the TL;DR(Too Long Didn’t Read) version of it, it dealt with my thought process regarding allowing a man into the Fraternity…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Last night I was honored to be a part of the Royal Arch Degree at Admiration Chapter No. 282 in Homer, Illinois. It was my first time playing a semi-important part as the Master of the 2nd veil. But as with all degrees I participate in, the…