14 members attended our first "ordinary" meeting, which proved enjoyable and instructive.
Our next scheduled meeting will be held Saturday 22 August.
A booklet "An Introduction to the Commemorative Masonic Order of St.Thomas of Acon" by David Kibble-Rees (published 2008) is available - please see the Order's web site for further information.
He who would valiant be ’gainst all disaster,
Let him in constancy follow the Master.
There’s no discouragement shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.
Who so beset him round with dismal stories
Do but themselves confound - his strength the more is.
No foes shall stay his might; though he with giants fight,
He will make good his right to be a pilgrim.
Since, Lord, Thou dost defend us with Thy Spirit,
We know we at the end, shall life inherit.
Then fancies flee away! I’ll fear not what men say,
I’ll labor night and day to be a pilgrim.
...
Words: John Bunyan, 1684;
as modified by Percy Dearmer, 1906
Monk's Gate - traditional English folk song
as arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams
...
The original text from Bunyan's Pilgrim’s Progress:
Who would true valour see, Let him come hither;
One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather
There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.
Whoso beset him round With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is.
No lion can him fright, He’ll with a giant fight,
He will have a right To be a pilgrim.
Hobgoblin nor foul fiend Can daunt his spirit,
He knows he at the end Shall life inherit.
Then fancies fly away, He’ll fear not what men say,
He’ll labor night and day To be a pilgrim.
Welcome. We meet on the mornings of the fourth Saturday in Februaryand
the third Saturdays of April and October
(please contact Secretary to confirm)
A/Secretary: R Num
PO Box 390
BURNSIDE SA 5066
Australia
About the Order
The Commemorative Order of St. Thomas of Acon is an independent body of Freemasons who must be Christians and subscribing members of a Preceptory of Masonic Knights Templar, as well as subscribing members of a Craft Lodge and of a Royal Arch Chapter. Membership is by invitation.
The Order was established in 1974 following twenty years research in London's Guildhall Library by John E N Walker.
The basic organisation of the Order is a Chapel, headed by a Master and a Prior. As at August 2009 there were more than 80 Chapels of the Order worldwide.
The Order was founded in and is governed from England, with Provinces including for Australia South and New Zealand, and for Australia North.
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