Hon. James Olivier, 32° KCCH
Prelate, Director of The Work
Brethren,
I’m sure we’re all reading in our Lodge newsletters a myriad of “halfway through the year” and “how time flies” messages, so I won’t belabor the issue, but doesn’t it feel like yesterday (or three decades ago depending on how your year is going) that we just had a reunion? Well, we stand at the doorstep of the next round of fun and frivolity as we prepare to start rehearsing for not one, but two reunions! As many of you know by now, we will have our normal biannual reunion on October 2-3, 2025, here at Orange Grove Masonic Center.
We also have the state-wide reunion coming up in 2026, which will be held at the Pasadena Scottish Rite. I’ve requested that our Director of Ritual, Hon. David Soliven, prepare us to perform at least two degrees in full form, with the work memorized. As always, I am so grateful to the work being done by those of our Brothers who have chosen to be a part of the ritual work, and with the state-wide reunion coming up, I’m sure there will be opportunities for more of you to get involved! It might only be two degrees, but some of our degrees, when performed properly, can have huge casts and many moving parts!
Switching hats to Prelate, I pray the blessings of the Great Architect of the Universe be upon you all. Remembering that we are all the children of one omnipotent deity, each of us equal in those eyes that watch over us all, doing the work of Masonry together that we might leave this world a little better than we found it.
