Tuesday, March 30th, 2021, at 7pm the Portland Valley will premiere the Ainsworth Chapter of Knights Rose Croix Ceremony of Remembrance and Renewal for 2021 on our Valley’s YouTube channel.
Your online viewing attendance is encouraged as we honor our dear departed Scottish Rite Brethren of the preceding year and usher in hope for increasing light in the year to come.
The Scottish Rite
congratulates Illustrious Brother Duane Hugulet!
The Grand Lodge of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Oregon and MWBr. Ron Eggers, 33º, Immediate Past Grand Master, has seen fit to honor Ill. Bro. Duane Hugulet, 33º, as the Mason of the year for 2020.
The Brethren of Portland Valley of the A.&A. Scottish Rite of Freemasonry wholeheartedly agree and congratulate Ill. Bro. Duane on this momentous occasion.
Well earned and done Illustrious Brother!
Brethren,
The role of the workman has been called and, one Master Mason, Tomey R. Greer, 32°, H.P.G.M., has not answered to his name. He has laid down the working tools of life and with them has left that mortal part for which he no longer has use. His labors here below have taught him to divest his heart and conscience of the vices and superfluity of life, thereby fitting his mind as a living stone for that spiritual building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Strengthened in his labors here by faith in God, and confident of expectation of immortality, he has been granted admission to the Celestial Lodge above. His Brethren mourn the passing of a great man and Mason.
Honorary Past Grand Master, M.W. Brother Tomey Ray Greer, 32°, was born on March 11th, 1946 in Seattle Washington and passed to the Celestial Lodge in Rainier Oregon on January 30th, 2021. M.W.Br. Tomey was raised on November 17th, 1975 in Rainier Lodge No. 24 A.F. & A.M. of Oregon and served his first time as Worshipful Master there in 1979, he was also a Blue Lodge member of Clatskanie Lodge No. 133, St. Helens Lodge No. 32, and Tigard-Orenomah Lodge No. 207 A.F.&A.M. of Oregon. He held many positions in Masonry over the years including District Deputy of District No. 1 and was voted to the position of Honorary Past Grand Master in 2010. M.W.Br. Tomey joined the Scottish Rite Portland Valley in 2006. He was also a member of Al Kader Wilsonville Temple of the A.A.O. of the Mystic Shrine.
Memorial Service information will be shared as soon as the family has a chance to make the arrangements.
Valleys and Lodges Can Help Provide Meals for Victims and First Responders of the Santiam Canyon Fire
Since the onset of the catastrophic Oregon wildfires of 2020, Silverton Elks Lodge #2210 has been providing meals and other aid to members of the community, fire fighters, and first responders impacted by the Santiam Canyon Fire. The lodge’s funds are dwindling and help is needed. Portland Lodge No. 55 and the Portland Valley Scottish Rite Acacia Fund recently each donated $2,000 to the cause and asks that other Valleys and lodges with available funds follow suit.
For more information, please visit www.silvertonelks.com or email silverelks@wavecable.com.
RWB Adam Bayer
Portland Lodge No. 55
A.F. & A.M. of Oregon
Dear Brethren,
Due to the increasing concern for the health and safety of our Members and attendees the decision has been made to cancel the conferral of the 4th & 14th Degrees that was scheduled a few weeks from today on November 21st in Portland.
I am very sorry to be the bearer of this news, I know that many of our prospective candidates are anxiously awaiting the next opportunity to join the Scottish Rite and I along with all our ritualists are looking forward to a time we will be able to perform our beautiful degrees in one of our Fraternity’s oldest stately edifices designed for an entertaining and educational initiatory experience.
This was a difficult decision but the safety of our Members and candidates is our chief priority and not something we can take lightly.
I am hopeful that later this month we will be able to return to meeting in downtown. At this time it is still planned to hold our Elections and Installation of Officers on November 24th but that meeting may shift to an online Zoom meeting if safety concerns are still present. Please keep an eye out for updates on upcoming meetings.
Until then I hope we can remember the lessons of the 14th degree that “Perfect Elus are both bound and free: bound by their obligation and free from prejudice, intolerance and envy“, and the lesson of the Stoic Marcus Aurelius, “waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.“
Sincerely & Fraternally,
Bro. Nathan Neff, 32°, KCCH,
Personal Representative
Portland Valley, Orient of Oregon
Greetings Brothers,
I hope you are well and staying safe. With the current conditions in Oregon I am reminded of our lessons of the 18th Degree where we discuss the axiom Igne Natura Renovatur Integra, meaning, “All of Nature is Renovated by Fire,” which sages of antiquity connect to the greatest secret of mother nature, that of universal regeneration.
To the matter at hand; at this time we have 10 Brothers that hope to set out on the expedition to summit South Sister on the weekend of September 25-27; to that end so far they have managed to accumulate $2,500.00 of their goal of $4,000.00 in pledged donations to support the Portland Valley Temple Preservation Foundation. And contribute to its mission to generate the funds for restoration and preservation of your Portland Scottish Rite Temple.
Although the current conditions in Oregon are unfavorable, the contingency of Brothers from our Consistory that determined to set out on this great cause are hopeful that the unfortunate situation across our State is alleviated in time to still achieve their goal.
If you are interested in participating in the hike or base camping please email Br. Sean McCallum, Master of Kadosh for the Oregon Consistory at consistory@portlandsr.com.
If you would like to donate to the cause you can do so either through our PayPal account, by check addressed to the “Temple Preservation Fund” mailed to the Valley Office, or you can call the Valley Office at 503-226-7827 to make a credit card donation over the phone.
Please take care and try not to breath outside very much.
Fraternally,
Bro. Nathan Neff, 32°, KCCH,
Personal Representative
Portland Valley, Orient of Oregon
The Oregon Consistory No. 1 presents The Circular Throughout Two Hemispheres or the 1802 Manifesto by Right Worshipful Brother Adam Bayer, Past Master of Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198, Past Master of Portland Lodge No. 55, & Current District Deputy of District No. 4 of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of AF&AM of Oregon
In this presentation Brother Adam discusses the origins of the Scottish Rite from the mid-1700s up through when the Supreme Council announced itself to the Masonic world by publishing an exceptional document known as the Manifesto of 1802. Through this presentation RWBr. Bayer will expounded upon the relationship of the higher degrees of Masonry and the genealogy of the Rite from Illustrious Brother, Frederick the 2nd, King of Prussia, to Brother Etienne Morin and the establishment of the current Supreme Council (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General Knights Commanders of the House of the Temple of Solomon of the Thirty-third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America. This talk is presented on behalf of Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198 to the Portland Valley of Scottish Rite.
