Essays for Lent/Easter: Freemasons

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For Further Study

Full text of the Church's Declaration on Masonic Associations  (Free) 
Books - Christianity and American Freemasonry by William J Whalen and Behind The Lodge Door by Paul A. Fisher

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**For Catholics, there is also the ban on receiving communion. That in itself is tragic. Remember that Jesus said you must drink His blood and eat His flesh or you have no life in you (John 6:53). Freemasonry denies you that life.**

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This is a post in a series -- please note that in the links below.

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Essays for Lent/Easter: Freemasons

Essays for Lent/Easter: Mormons
Essays for Lent/Easter: Seventh Day Adventists
Essays for Lent/Easter: Jehovah's Witnesses
Essays for Lent/Easter: The Word of Faith Movement
Essays for Lent/Easter: Salvation Outside the Church?
Essays for Lent/Easter: The Words of Consecration
Essays for Lent/Easter: Traditionalists [Catholic Caucus]
Essays for Lent/Easter: Women's Ordination
Essays for Lent/Easter: Abortion
Essays for Lent/Easter: Annulment

Essays for Lent/Easter: Divorce and Remarriage
Essays for Lent: Marriage
Essays for Lent: Natural Family Planning
Essays for Lent: Contraception
Essays for Lent: Abstinence
Essays for Lent: The Rapture
Essays for Lent: Call No Man Father
Essays for Lent: Scapulars Medals and Relics
Essays for Lent: Statues and Holy Pictures
Essays for Lent: The Rosary

Essays for Lent: The Assumption
Essays for Lent: The Immaculate Conception
Essays for Lent: Mary Ever-Virgin
Essays for Lent: Praying to Saints
Essays for Lent: Indulgences
Essays for Lent: Purgatory
Essays for Lent: Confession
Essays for Lent: The Eucharist
Essays for Lent: The Mass
Essays for Lent: Baptism

Essays for Lent: Justification
Essays for Lent: Tradition
Essays for Lent: Scripture Alone
Essays for Lent: The Canon of Scripture
Essays for Lent: Papal Infallibility
Essays for Lent: The Pope
Essays for Lent: The Church
Essays for Lent: The Bible
Essays for Lent: The Trinity
Essays for Lent: Creationism or Evolution?

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Essays for Lent/Easter: Freemasons
Why Catholics Cannot Be Masons, [Part 1]
Good Catholics should not wear aprons
Sandra Miesel explains why Catholics can't be Masons
Masonic Lodges Open Those Mysterious Doors
"LOST SYMBOL" PICTURES: Masonic Symbols Decoded
Georgia freemasons at loggerheads over admission of black man to lodge
Is There No Help For The Widow's Son? Part two (Masonry and Mormonism) (OPEN)

Masonic rituals live on
First-Ever Masonic Inaugural Ball to be Held[In honor of President-elect, Barack Obama]
A Mormon Mason: New grand master is the first in a century who is LDS
Freemasons open a lodge at Buckingham Palace but the Queen isn't amused
Islam and Freemasonry
Masonry, Atheism and Catholicism
New Masons Drawn by Brotherhood, Not Myths
THE ANTI-CATHOLIC NATURE OF FREEMASONRY
Cuban Freemason Dr. Alfredo Manuel Pulido Lopez is being held prisoner in Cuba
Masonic rituals live on

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[lightman]

Freemasonry is not exclusively a Catholic concern. The American Lutheran Church forbade membership in the Lodge for its clergy; a prohibition that was relaxed with the formation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1988.

There was considerable debate over Lodge membership for clergy at the constituting convention of the North American Lutheran Church in AD 2010...I believe the outcome was that the proposed prohibition was dropped. It was disheartening to hear otherwise orthodox clergy state that if forced to choose they would choose the Lodge.

The Luthern Church Missouri Synod has taken a firm line against Freemasonry and includes a volume on the Lodge in the “How to Respond to” series produced by Concordia.

[Chode]

i'll take my chances and leave it up to the Lord when i see him...

[Salvation]

Good info to know on the Missouri Synod of Lutherans. I thought that Catholics were the only ones on the other side of the fence here.

[gghd]

I don’t know who you be. But as you placed a comment on a Roman Catholic thread, I’ll quote a Proverb for you:

“The wise man is cautious and shuns evil; the fool is reckless and sure of himself.” Proverbs 14: 16.

[Salvation]

Did you look at the links. This is just one of a series from this author. He’s not shy, is he?

[Chode]

i'm not sure of my self, i'm sure of the Lord...

[gghd]

Praise God.

I apologize. I thought you might be a ‘mocker.’

The virtue of >Humility with strong Faith. Praise God.

I apologize. It seems I be the ‘reckless fool.’

Mea Culpa.

[SmithL]

Thanks for the ping. I wasn’t aware that LCMS prohibited Masonic membership. I did know that WELS prohibited it, but was never sure why. It never much mattered, since I was never in any danger of joining a Lodge. WELS also doesn’t like Scouting, and that is an issue for me.

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Please read this again. You are the one with a free will, right?

Ephesians 5:8-11

[lightman]

WELS also doesn’t like Scouting, and that is an issue for me.

Even Missouri has had its reservations about scouting, mainly focused on the nomenclature of "merit" badges because the word carries a lot of midieval baggage about works righteousness and the treasury of the saints, indulgences, etc.

[Chode]

no apology necessary and not to worry... the way i see it is, if the Lord can make room for baby raping child murders if they "Find God" in the end, he will make room for me if the worst thing i've ever done was join the Masons

[Chode]

see post #18

[gghd]

Yep, you be right> God loves everyone. Even Masons can get into Heaven if they throw themselves on the Mercy of God & repent their sins. Where Masons & those baby-raping-child-murders are sequestered in Purgatory & for how long is up to God.

+That Moniker of yours & your tagline could lead a person to think you be a ‘Mocker’ & not >JUST a Mason.

I apologize again.