{"id":129,"date":"2024-09-01T05:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T05:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2024-09-01T05:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T05:27:01","slug":"the-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/?page_id=129","title":{"rendered":"The Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This office is a clear link back to the Mediaeval Guilds, which were all semi-religious bodies that often met in churches and chapels; a more direct survival is the use of \u2018chapel\u2019, headed by a \u2018Father\u2019 in the printing trade to designate a workplace trade union meeting. Some early Masonic manuscripts mention Lodges having Chaplains before 1717, but it is unclear whether all Lodges had one; much seems to have depended on local tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"401\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-151\" style=\"width:175px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-11.png 401w, https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-11-278x300.png 278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Office of Grand Chaplain is, however, mentioned in 1775, and the Lodge Office was confirmed by the 1784 Book of Constitutions. Today, the Chaplain offers Masonic prayers and readings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This office is a clear link back to the Mediaeval Guilds, which were all semi-religious bodies that often met in churches and chapels; a more direct survival is the use of \u2018chapel\u2019, headed by a \u2018Father\u2019 in the printing trade to designate a workplace trade union meeting. Some early Masonic manuscripts mention Lodges having Chaplains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":84,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions\/152"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossmasonichall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}