Landmark Lodge No. 383 F&AM

About Freemasonry

Freemasonry is the oldest and largest world wide fraternity dedicated to the Brotherhood of Man under the Fatherhood of a Supreme Being. Although of a religious nature, Freemasonry is not a religion. It urges its members, however, to be faithful and devoted to their own religious beliefs.

Freemasonry is a charitable organization, which acts to relieve the distress of local individuals who are victims of calamity, and it has created programs and institutions to care for its needy senior citizens, and to provide scholarship aid for worthy and needy young people in college. Masonic Homes and Hospitals, Grand Lodge Scholarship Programs, Charity Funds, and the Hospital Visitation Program of the Masonic Service Association are examples of such achievements.

Masons are men who voluntarily asked to join a Lodge. They were accepted because they were good men who believe in God and hold high ethical and moral ideals. They go to meetings which they call the Lodge, in order to learn and to teach what friendship, morality, and truth really involve, and to practice on a small scale the reality of brotherhood. They also have events open to their wives, children, friends and neighbors where they promote an understanding of the serious nature of the Fraternity by entertainment and sociability. The special kinship they feel for each other as a brotherhood is their deepest satisfaction.