Portsmouth Freemasons | St. John's Lodge #1

Please Note – the cancellation notice for July’s Master Mason Class has been rescinded: the class will take place on its originally scheduled day Wednesday July 25th at Star in the East Lodge (Exeter, NH): the Master’s Classes  schedule for the remainder of 2018 is as follows:

This Wednesday, June 27th, is Past Master’s Night at St. John’s Lodge.  Dinner will be served at 6:00 p.m., Lodge will begin at 7:00 p.m. [Master Masons only].  RSVP (if you scroll down two posts and click on the RED  “click here” button, you can make your reservation on line, now).

Brothers,   Please reserve Sunday morning  June 24th, 2018, to attend our annual march  from the William Pitt Tavern in Strawbery Banke, to St. John’s Church on Chapel Street.  This is a St. John’s lodge  tradition goes back well over a century and a half.  Brothers of St. John’s Lodge will be joined by members of N.H. lodges from across the eastern half of the state and by officers of  the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire.   Coffee and doughnuts will be served starting at 8:00 a.m. outside the William Pitt Tavern.  The “Masonic march” will begin to assembled at 8:30 a.m. and step-off for the March to St. John’s Church at 8:45 a.m.  The return march to the Tavern will take place immediately after services at the church.  A BBQ will be held at the Portsmouth Masonic Temple (351 Middle Street) immediately following the return march.

As we celebrate  summer weather finally arriving we ask you take just a minute to R.S.V.P. for June’s Dinner’s.  If you will be attending the Wednesday, June 6,  Stated Communication dinner please:

If you plan to attend the Special Communication dinner on Wednesday June 27th please:

If you plan to come for the dinner on May 30th that precedes the Fellowcraft Degree, please RSVP by clicking on  the link below.

St. John’s Lodge No.1 newest Entered Apprentice (as of May 5), Gavin William Johnson, with (left) his father, St. John’s Marshal, Nathan Johnson, and (right) Master of St. John’s Lodge Rob Johnson.