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We, the Brothers of Union Lodge No. 31, celebrate the hour before every meeting as an open house. We enjoy a light meal, refreshments and camaraderie with brothers and non-brothers alike. If you are not a mason and are interested in our fraternity you are welcome to visit our lodge and share in the food and friendship the first and third Thursday of every month from 6:30 – 7:30pm.
June 7th : Business Meeting. There will be a light dinner and dessert served before the meeting. Dinner will be served at 6:30pm with the meeting to folllow at 7:30pm.
June 14th : Awards Night / Strawberry Festival. Brothers, bring your wives and have some homemade strawberry shortcake (compliments of our Junior Warden's Wife ) with the Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the State of Connecticut!!! MWB Gary W. Arseneau will be at the Bay View Temple to present an award to a local Veterinarian who went above and beyond the call of duty. The doors will be open for 6:30pm. Please come out and support the awards recipients and welcome the Grand Master.
June 21st : Master Mason Degree. There will be a Master Mason Degree presented in the "Long Form" by the Past Masters of the 8th District. There will be a dinner preceding the degree at 6:30 with the degree to follow at 7:30pm. Menu details are pending and will be posted soon.
July 5th : Business Meeting / Picnic. Brothers, while some lodges go dark for the summer, Union Lodge No 31 traditionally continues with a business only meeting on the first Thursday. The new tradition we started last year is to have a picnic before the meeting and we meet for the business in the dining hall downstairs. The setting is very casual and ties and jackets are not encouraged. Shorts and flip flops are more appropriate for our summer business. This is a good time to bring a non-mason to the lodge and meet the brothers. Hot dogs, hambugers and drinks are supplied by the lodge. We ask that you bring a side dish or dessert to share with your brothers. The picnics start at 6:00pm with the meeting to follow starting promptly at 7:30pm.
August 2nd : Business Meeting / Picnic. Brothers, while some lodges go dark for the summer, Union Lodge No 31 traditionally continues with a business only meeting on the first Thursday. The new tradition we started last year is to have a picnic before the meeting and we meet for the business in the dining hall downstairs. The setting is very casual and ties and jackets are not encouraged. Shorts and flip flops are more appropriate for our summer business. This is a good time to bring a non-mason to the lodge and meet the brothers. Hot dogs, hambugers and drinks are supplied by the lodge. We ask that you bring a side dish or dessert to share with your brothers. The picnics start at 6:00pm with the meeting to follow starting promptly at 7:30pm.
Remember Brothers, calendar events and times are subject to change. Please check often.
Calendar Search Tool:
A calendar search tool has been installed at the bottom of every lodge website calendar.
Put in a date in the future and all events throughout the state will result. Search for a particular event from sixteen different categories and all the events of that category will appear. Results up to one year in the future are displayed.
For example, looking for a Fellowcraft Degree in the state? Look no further than the website calendar search tool. Want to go to a Table Lodge? Do a search. Have nothing to do tomorrow night? Search for all events on that date.
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Blue Lodge Council Meetings
June 25th : @ Sommerset St. James No. 34
Sept 24th : @ Coastal No. 57
Nov 26th : @ Brainard No. 102
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Online Masonic Discussion Group
Any brother Master Mason who would like to participate in a Masonic Discussion Group administered by Bro. Pat Trainor can do so by signing up via the link below. There is a wealth of archived material to view, but to access the archives you need to create a free gmail account. There are some lively discussions and subjects to test and improve your Masonic knowledge. Your opinions and comments are welcome and encouraged. If you have any trouble accessing the link you can email Bro. Pat at
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http://groups.google.com/group/MasonicResearch/sub?s=9aBGxQwAAADvK0_dx12l9caOEvCduhyn&hl=en
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The Bridge Builder is a poem written by Will Allen Dromgoole around the turn of the 20th Century. This poem is used by many fraternal societies to teach the importance of building for future generations.
Please take a moment to read this humble poem and reflect. What bridges have you built in your life?
The Bridge Builder
"An old man, going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned, when safe on the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near,
"You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again will pass this way;
You've crossed the chasm, deep and wide-
Why build you this bridge at the evening tide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head:
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today,
A youth, whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm, that has been naught to me,
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him.
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Union Lodge No. 31 meets on the first and third Thursdays of every month at 7:30pm. July and August meetings are the first Thursday only.
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DIRECTIONS
From I-95 North or South, Take EXIT 74. At end of ramp take a RIGHT onto Rt.161 Flander's Road.
Proceed South on Flander's Road approximately 1 mile. At traffic signal turn RIGHT onto Society Road.
Proceed approximately 1/4 mile on Society Rd. Bay View Masonic Temple is on LEFT across from Middle School and Town Library
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What is Freemasonry?
Freemasonry is the oldest fraternal organization in the world. It is dedicated to promoting improvement in the character of its members. A Mason is taught to be a good citizen. To be of good character. To care for those less fortunate, and to give back to his community.
Freemasonry is not a religion. This is not to say that Masons do not have religious beliefs. One of the tenets of the Masonic Fraternity is that its members are free to express their beliefs in the religion of their choice. However, it is also a condition of membership that each recognize that the wonders of the universe are not here as a result of our doing. But rather as a result of a Supreme Being, who brings order and purpose to our existence.
Membership in the Masonic Fraternity is an act of free will. A man must ask for the opportunity. The potential member must be at least eighteen years of age, of sound moral character, and able to express his belief in a Supreme Being.
The Masonic Fraternity believes that its members have an obligation to give back to their communities, and to benefit others. It is an important point to emphasize that Masons are taught to go about these tasks in a quiet, unassuming fashion. This is meant to impress upon our members that it is the work, and not the individual, that is of importance. It is also to preserve the dignity of those for whom the work is performed.
Feel free to email us at
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for any questions, comments or requests for further information about membership.
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