Moira Lodge # 11 Receives the travelling Square and Compass and confers a Fellowcraft Degree onto Bro. Michael MacDonald

(By R.W. Bro. Stan Reid – Lodge Reporter)

The Worshipful Master and officers of Moira Lodge No 11 conferred the Fellowcraft Degree on Bro. Michael MacDonald. R.W. Bro. Leonard Bedford was in attendance along with Travelling Square and Compasses committee members

The purpose & significance of the “Traveling Square & Compasses”, is to promote and encourage fraternal visits. 

The custom was introduced in Prince Edward District, in 1953, through the keen interest & tireless efforts of W. Bro. Everett C. Wood, President of the Past Masters, Masters, & Wardens Association, as a special project.  The late W. Bro. Wood became our D.D.G.M. in 1955.

The Compasses are the most prominent emblem of virtue, the true and only measure of a Freemason’s life and conduct.

It is one of the three great lights in Masonry.

The square teaches morality, and it also instructs us to regulate our lives and actions by the Masonic Rule and Line.

The square is also one of the three great lights in Masonry.

In Masonic symbolism, the Square & Compasses refer to the Freemason’s duty to the Craft, and to himself, and are adopted as the badge or token of the fraternity.