Taking Lodge Back to the Table
August 29, 2010 by The Euphrates
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My Lodge, Chapter, and Council are all dining groups. The meal is part of the ritual of the meeting, in which fellowship is more immediately experienced than in the business meeting. There is formal ritual involved in the meals, which are catered, and which each member subscribes to. This is in Washington DC.
Awesome article. I agree wholeheartedly! English Lodges will hold a dinner most Communications and charge their Brethren somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 each meeting. The concept of lingering over a meal versus a hurry up attitude inside the Lodge room is oh, so true.
Of course afterward you have to come back for some adult libation!
We aren’t allowed alcohol in our lodges in Florida. But then, I’ve noticed a lot of hold over cold war and prohibition bylaws.
But I also cook every Monday and put a lot of time and effort into it, we eat before our meetings and often times have discussion afterwords time permitting. We ask $5 per meal donation – it is not required and I would be horrified to see anyone turned away from my kitchen without a meal for lack of money. I have been able to keep my kitchen self sustaining (and our Warden that ran it for years before me did the same) on these donations. I personally don’t want to leave the lodge in order to get food, or pay $20 to get it brought to me. That’s quite a bit of money for a single meal.