Kennebec Masonic Lodge #5

11/01/2025

A great poem and reminder!

10/13/2023

Looking forward to a great breakfast and fellowship!

08/06/2023

We had a great fellowship night with family and friends! Thanks to all who attended! We hope to do something else soon. Looking forward to seeing all of you on Wednesday.

05/24/2023

Please note: Kennebec Lodge is meeting at Morning Star Lodge. We're always happy to see a visiting brother!

Morning Star Lodge No. 41, 2422 Hallowell Rd, Litchfield, ME 04350

07/21/2022

Well said

As Free and Accepted Masons we are taught that the first great tenet of our Fraternity is Brotherly Love. By it we do not mean that we are all of one opinion in all matters, personal and political. By it we do not mean that we are all the same in religion, creed, nationality, race, political opinion, status or fortune. Rather the concept teaches us to regard the whole human species as one family; the high and the low, the rich and the poor, who, as created by one Almighty Parent and inhabitants of the same planet, are to aid, support and protect each other. On this principle, masonry unites men of every country, sect and opinion, and conciliates true friendship among those who might otherwise have remained at perpetual distance.

07/02/2022

Way to go, Brothers!

Brothers,
The final figures for Operation Reboot.

All 8 Lodges in the 16th Masonic District participated in this fundraiser, as well as all 8 Lodges in the 23rd Masonic District, and 2 Lodges in the 20th District.

Together with the Maine Masonic Charitable Foundation matching grants we raised $60,000.00.

This donation will go a long way towards their goal of building and supplying support and outdoor recreation opportunities for veteran's. 18 Masonic Lodges cooperated and worked together to make this a successful fundraising event happen we will be making presentation on August 6, 2022 around 1:30 pm at:
> Rock Mountain Farm
> 840 Bakerstown Rd
> Poland, ME 04274
> They will be hosting a fundraising lunch at Rock Mountain Farm from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.

05/31/2022

The Trestle Board is up and ready to be viewed at mighty11thmaine.org

Looking forward to seeing you around!

05/30/2022

Said very well!

05/21/2022

This is pretty neat!

Masonic Island is a seven acre site on Lake Metigoshe in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota. It was originally named Park Island. In 1904, the island was owned by Bro. V.J. Noble, who was a member of Tuscan Lodge #44 of North Dakota. With a dispensation from the Grand Lodge of North Dakota, and the permission of Bro. Noble, the island was cleared in 1906 for the purpose of holding outdoor Masonic conferrals of degrees. Tuscan Lodge was joined by Westhope Lodge #74 for conferrals of three Master Mason Degrees that year. The events were such a success that rituals were held annually for six consecutive years. When Bro. Noble died, Masons became interested in reviving the conferral of rituals on the island. On November 28, 1933, the Probate Court authorized the sale of the island with a deed to the North Dakota Masonic Foundation for the sum of $277.25. At the landing dock is a flight of winding concrete stairs consisting of three, five, and seven steps that rise to the representation of a Lodge Room. The significance of the steps might be explained to you if you have a Masonic guide. An altar and officers’ chairs were constructed of “beach stones” and mortared cement. Other amenities were added over the years to accommodate the island’s use by Royal Arch Masons, Eastern Star, and other appendant and concordant bodies.

05/11/2022

This is a great picture of one of my personal heroes and a great Masonic Brother. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a professor who rose to the rank of Major General during the Civil War and miraculously survived the battles at Antietam, Shepherdstown Ford, Fredericksburg, Middleburg, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run, The Wilderness, Laurel Hill, North Anna, Bethesda Church, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Peebles' Farm, Hatcher's Run, Quaker Road, White Oak Road, Five Forks, and Appomattox. He was made famous for his stand at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg.

Colonel John Oates of the 15th Alabama, Army of the Confederacy on speaking of Chamberlain once said; "There never were harder fighters than the Twentieth Maine men and their gallant Colonel. Their skill and persistency and great bravery saved Little Round Top and the Army of the Potomac from defeat. Great events sometimes turn on comparatively small affairs."

Brother Chamberlain's greatest feat was not his courage and heroism on the many battlefields of the Civil War, nor was it his formidable stand at Gettysburg in which he most likely saved the entire Union Army and Washington DC. It was on April 12, 1865, when he was given the honor of being the Union Commander to receive the surrender of the Southern infantry.

At the moment of receiving the submission of the once proud and mighty army of General Lee, Chamberlain ordered the Union Army to attention and offered the salute of "Honor answering Honor". The honor was received by Southern General and Brother John Gordon, who regained his composure and ordered his troops to return the salute in acknowledgment of its intent and its praise.

It was this one exchange of brotherly love that Brother Chamberlain initiated that was the very first step in mending the wounds of a fractured nation and it astounded the newspapers of the world, much as when Brother Washington relinquished his sword and the absolute power that came with it. Brother Chamberlain personified the best in Freemasonry and helped inspire greatness in others and his nation.

04/13/2022

Looking forward to seeing you all tonight! See you at 7:30.