St. John the Evangelist Day

We have decided to hold an observance of the Feast Day for St. John the Evangelist.  It will be at 7pm on the 27^th of December at the Evanston Masonic Temple.  I have been asked to give a presentation on the historical aspect of who St. John the Evangelist was.  I wrote a short 2 pages on the topic and will post it here on the feast day.  WM David Lanier will give a presentation on what St. John represented allegorically to the Masons.

We chose to do this for two reasons.  First, 12/27/2010 is regarded as one of the most important days on the Masonic calendar and in times past was often observed in Lodge or at a Church service attended by members.  This wouldn’t normally motivate us to put this together, there obviously had to be some incentive!  Well, there was.

The Grand Lodge of Illinois has an Award of Excellence program and each lodge can qualify for a point toward the award if they can manage to pull together the Worshipful Master and 8 Officers/members to attend.  Evans Lodge managed to pull together 8 brothers on short notice, 2 days after Christmas.  Wayfarers is working on getting together their members so that they can qualify for a point as well.

It was short notice, but I hope we can pull this off.  It will be nice to see if we can make it happen.