devlin
Laus Deo
As I have been interested in joining the Scottish Rite I have been reading up on the rules and one seemed peculiar considering how life is in the 21st century with people having to move for various reasons especially due to work (their own or their spouses), military duty or other life issues.
I read that you can not for any reason leave (demit from) your blue lodge or you loose you membership in the Scottish Rite. I can understand this in the day most people never moved, you built/bought your house and there you stayed until your death. Now few stay in the same town or even state all their adult lives. It seems the SR hasn't kept with the times with this one. It got me wondering. What if I for some reason had to move out of state and it was a permanent move...
Would the SR expect me to pay dues to my old lodge AND the lodge I found in my new location and was going to regularly attend in order to retain my membership in the Rite?
It isn't something that is a current situation for me but I don't know if I'd want to waste time joining and paying dues only to be bounced because something unexpected happened and I had to relocate far from the lodge of which I was raised.
I guess what I am asking is did I misunderstand something? I'd imagine there is some kind of loop hole or the SR would be in serious jeopardy of falling apart from loosing so many people each year due to those that moved for one reason or another.
Hope I wasn't too repetitive... I'm having a particularly bad ADD day....
Bro. Bill L.
I read that you can not for any reason leave (demit from) your blue lodge or you loose you membership in the Scottish Rite. I can understand this in the day most people never moved, you built/bought your house and there you stayed until your death. Now few stay in the same town or even state all their adult lives. It seems the SR hasn't kept with the times with this one. It got me wondering. What if I for some reason had to move out of state and it was a permanent move...
Would the SR expect me to pay dues to my old lodge AND the lodge I found in my new location and was going to regularly attend in order to retain my membership in the Rite?
It isn't something that is a current situation for me but I don't know if I'd want to waste time joining and paying dues only to be bounced because something unexpected happened and I had to relocate far from the lodge of which I was raised.
I guess what I am asking is did I misunderstand something? I'd imagine there is some kind of loop hole or the SR would be in serious jeopardy of falling apart from loosing so many people each year due to those that moved for one reason or another.
Hope I wasn't too repetitive... I'm having a particularly bad ADD day....
Bro. Bill L.