Lodge of Sorrow

To those unfamiliar, Texas' Lodge of Sorrow is structurally nearly identical to a MM Lodge, but with the wording tweaked so it talks about a "Master Masons' Lodge of Sorrow". Then it's called from labor to refreshment, the Masonic funeral takes place, everyone returns to the lodge room, then the lodge is called back from refreshment to labor, and finally closes out like a normal MM Lodge (but you address it as a MM's LOS)

I know of some Lodges that instead of doing this every time there's a Masonic funeral, they open the LOS at the beginning of the Masonic Year, go from labor to refreshment, and won't go back from refreshment to labor until the end of the Masonic year. This way, it's understood that the Brothers can go straight to the funeral services at any given point because the LOS is still "going on". I'm not a fan of this method and I'd much rather have the LOS done for every individual deceased brother, but that welcomes the possibility of the brothers tripping up the LOS ritual and not paying due respects to the deceased brother. I see both sides to it.

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