Masonic Funeral Service

Brother “Buz” Landry

Saturday September 14, 2024  10:00am

Services will be conducted ar rhe Lodge Hall.

No planned refreshmens

Dress Code:  Suits, Shirt  & Tie, (Slacks or Dress Jeans)

MASONIC FUNERAL RITES AND WHAT IT MEANS TO US

The Masonic Funeral Service is as old as the Fraternity itself. In the days of Operative Masonry, Stonemasons buried their own with great solemnity and reverence. The deceased Brother was one they knew and worked with their entire lives. They spoke of the Eternal Life after death and the need to help all humanity throughout the course of their life. We continue this tradition today in Speculative Masonry.

The Masonic funeral is fundamentally for the living, as the beginning of the service states, “The last offices paid to the dead are useful as lessons to the living.” Although Freemasonry is not a religion, it is religious. Freemasonry does not teach salvation, but rather teaches the Brotherhood of Man under the Fatherhood of God. Our participation in a Masonic funeral is an expression of our fraternal affection to the deceased Brother and his family.

Masonic funeral rites are based upon the teachings of the Volume of the Sacred Law, and generally accept the principles of the religion of the departed Brother with the recognition that once you die you must face judgment. The fundamental objective is for the living to be taught the very useful lesson that death is certain, and the time of death is unknown and left in the hands of our God.