Protocol & Etiquette

Protocol and Etiquette Newsletters of Grand Lodge – listed by Issue

P & E Essentials Issue 1

  • Definitions: The whole purpose and object of protocol?
  • When is it proper to use the Sign of Fidelity?
  • Quick Points

P & E Essentials Issue 2 – May 2009

  • The Gavel
  • Banquet Hall Protocol

P & E Essentials Issue 3 – October 2009

  • Banquet Hall Seating Protocol
  • The Wands
  • Funeral Honours
  • The Grand Honours

P & E Essentials Issue 4 – January 2010

  • Reception of Visiting Brethren
  • Announcing Grand Lodge Visitors – updated below 2012
  • Proper Reference to the Grand Master
  • Worshipful Master’s Collar

P & E Essentials Issue 5 – March 2010

  • Saluting W.M.
  • Saluting When Passing W.M.
  • The Lewis Jewel
  • The Tyler
  • Can The Grand Honours Be Given In Public?
  • The Warrant
  • Draping The Warrant
  • Say I, repeat your several names and say after me

P & E Essentials Issue 6 – April 2010

  • Dress And Undress Regalia
  • The Sign Of Fidelity
  • Addressing The East

P & E Essentials Issue 7 – (Rev.1) June 2010

  • The Ballot – Part One: How To Conduct The Ballot

P & E Essentials Issue 8 – October 2010

  • The Ballot – Part Two: Procedural Rules Concerning Applications
  • Questions & Answers

P & E Essentials Issue 9 – December 2010

  • The William Mercer Wilson Medal
  • The Head Table
  • “Worshipful Master” Is A Rank

P & E Essentials Issue 10 – February 2011

  • Masonic Toasts

P & E Essentials Issue 11 – March 2011

  • Why Is The Master Called “Worshipful”
  • The Worshipful Master
  • Saluting The Worshipful Master
  • Take The Proper Step Before Saluting
  • Saluting
  • Questions – on the Salute

P & E Essentials Issue 12 – April 2011

  • Dress Codes In Masonry
  • The Well-Dressed Mason
  • Gloves

P & E Essentials Issue 13 – June 2011A

Replaced by P & E Guide to the Masonic Memorial Services
See below in Special Issues

P & E Essentials Issue 14 – January 2012

  • Committee Of General Purposes Background
  • Motions
  • Adjourning

P & E Essentials Issue 15 – February 2012

  • Committee Of General Purposes cont’d
  • The Business Portion Of A Lodge Meeting
  • How to Efficiently Conduct the Business Portion of a Lodge Meeting
  • Minutes of Lodge Meetings
  • Agenda
  • Rules of Order Motions
  • The Worshipful Master’s Powers and Responsibilities

P & E Essentials – Issue 16 – March 2012

  • Cell Phone Etiquette
  • Multiple Volumes Of The Sacred Law

P & E Essentials – Issue 17 – April 2012

  • The Grand Honours
  • The Deacons
  • Addressing The East
  • Addressing A Head Table (Use of Brother & Brethren)

P & E Essentials – Issue 18 – May 2012

  • Election of Lodge Officers

P & E Essentials – Issue 19 – June 2012

  • Banquet Hall Protocol
  • Setting up a Head Table

P & E Essentials – Issue 20 – December 2012

  • Banquet hall protocol – part 2
  • Introducing a head table
  • Introducing a secondary head table
  • Addressing a head table

P & E Essentials – Issue 21 – January 2013

  • The Grand Honours
  • Funeral Honours (see Issue 31 & Guide to the Masonic Memorial Services – September 2014)

P & E Essentials – Issue 22 – February 2013

  • Draping the Warrant
  • Memorial Services
  • The Altar

P & E Essentials – Issue 23 – March 2013

JEWELS and PINS

  • (A) How Jewels Should Be Worn
  • (B) What Pins and Buttons Can Be Worn
  • (C) Royal Arch Jewel
  • Military & civilian medals & pins
  • Collars

P & E Essentials – Issue 24 – April 2013

The District Deputy Grand Master

  • DDGM’s Official Visit
  • DDGM’s FIRST VISIT
  • Addressing the East in Lodge
  • Protocol of final comment
  • Banquets

P & E Essentials – Issue 25 – May 2013

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS BOOKLET

P & E Essentials – Issue 26 – July 2013

THE COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY

  • The Process of Inquiry (Extracted from a presentation by R.W. Bro. Brian Gilkinson)
  • The Interview

P & E Essentials – Issue 27 – January 2014

THE DIRECTOR OF CEREMONIES

  • What a D. of C. should know
  • Order of Introduction of Current GLOs
  • Special Protocol Applies When The Grand Master Visits A Lodge
  • Reception of Grand Lodge Officers and Banquet Hall Protocol
  • Director of Ceremonies’ Baton
  • Wand Etiquette
  • Miscellaneous
  • References

P & E Essentials – Issue 28 – February 2014

THE WILLIAM MERCER WILSON MEDAL

THE GRAND MASTER’S MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

P & E Essentials – Issue 29 – March 2014

VISITATION

A BOARD OF TRIAL

P & E Essentials – Issue 30 – April 2014

THE DIRECTOR OF CEREMONIES’ BATON

  • Historical Significance And Background
  • How To Carry A Baton

LODGE ELECTIONS

P & E Essentials – Issue 31 – May 2014

THE MASONIC MEMORIAL SERVICES

  • Significance
  • Dress Code
  • Historical Background
  • Planning – The Day Of The Service
  • Review The Service
  • Planning – Long Range
  • One Final Thought To Ponder
  • Officers’ Duties
  • Check List
  • Items Needed For A Masonic Memorial Service

P & E Essentials – Issue 32 – May 2014

MASONIC DRESS CODES

  • Dress Codes Decoded
  • Business Dress
  • Semi-formal Dress ( Black Tie )
  • Morning Suit
  • Formal Dress ( White Tie )

GUIDELINES TO OUR MASONIC DRESS CODES

  • When the following are appropriate:
  • Business dress
  • Semi-formal dress
  • Morning Suit
  • Formal Dress

DRESS and UNDRESS REGALIA

THE WORSHIPFUL MASTER’S COLLAR

P & E Essentials – Issue 33 – January 2015

THE PAST MASTER

  • Privileges Conferred By The Constitution
  • With These Privileges Come Responsibilities
  • Some Suggested Protocols For Past Masters To Observe In Lodge

P & E Essentials – Issue 34 – February 2015

DOES HUMOUR HAVE A PLACE IN A LODGE ROOM?

  • John attends the perfect lodge meeting

P & E Essentials – Issue 35 – April 2015

REVIEW OF IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF PROTOCOL

  • Candidate’s Name
  • Salutes
  • Saluting Moving About The Lodge Room
  • Excessive And/Or Unnecessary Circumambulation the Grand Honours
  • Redundancies To Be Avoided
  • Who Can Sit In The East?
  • Freedom Of The Lodge
  • Personal Demeanor Of The Wm And His Officers

P & E Essentials – Issue 36 – February 2016

  • “Freedom of the Lodge”
  • Open Ritual Books in Lodge

P & E Essentials – Issue 37 – March 2016

  • Improper solicitation
  • Who would make a good candidate?
  • Our degrees and lectures
  • Summary

P & E Essentials – Issue 38 – May 2016

  • Proper etiquette while “O Canada” is being sung.
  • Congratulating the candidate
  • Step up night
  • Adjusting the working tools

P & E Essentials – Issue 39 – July 2016

  • Balloting and lodge elections.
  • Conducting lodge elections: a practical guide.
  • Planning for election night.
  • Questions & answers pertaining to lodge elections.
  • Suggested procedure for the worshipful master to follow on election night.

P & E Guide to the Masonic Memorial Services– September 2015

  • Significance
  • Historical Background
  • Review – 3 Services

Planning – Long Range

  • Check List of Supplies needed to conduct a memorial service
  • Officers’ Duties
  • Dress Code

Planning – The Day of the Service

  • The Service
  • One Final Thought to Ponder
  • Recommended Positioning of Participants at a Masonic Memorial Service

Planning Sheet – who does which piece of service

  • Article – The impact a Masonic Memorial Service can have on a family
  • Example of a Booklet for the Service (A copy might also be given to members of the family)
  • Example of a Sacred Roll

P and E Receiving GL Officers Banquet Hall Protocol – Incl GLO Intro – Revised Sept 1 2016