SENIOR WARDEN

Updated
Brotherly Love, Relief , and Truth are the principle tenents of Freemasonry.
07/31/08

DUTIES REQUIRED (CMC Section 2538):

  1. To assist the Master in the performance of his duties;
  2. To discharge all those duties which ancient usage has assigned to the station of the Senior warden; and
  3. During the absence of the Master, to succeed to and be charged with all the powers and duties of the Master.

DUTIES SUGGESTED:

  1. To be responsible for the coaching of all candidates;
  2. To select qualified candidate coaches;
  3. To insure that a Candidates Coaches Handbook is available to each Candidates Coach;
  4. To insure that the candidates are progressing at a reasonable rate and that the Candidates Record Book is always up to date;
  5. To serve as Chairman of the Public Schools Committee;
  6. To prepare the Senior Warden's Trestleboard articles;
  7. To serve As an ex-officio member of the Budget and Finance Committee;
  8. To prepare the calendar for his year as Master, arrange for facility reservations and set goals for his year;
  9. To prepare an estimated budget for his year as Master (based upon his planned calendar);
  10. To consider officer appointments for his year as Master and to ask men if they will serve;
  11. To consider committee chairmen and member appointments for his year as Master and to ask men if they will serve;
  12. To attend the Annual Communication of Grand Lodge;
  13. To attend all Lodge functions (Stated and Special Meetings, Lodge social events and other Lodge functions); and
  14. To plan the Lodge's next Installation.

RITUAL REQUIRED:

  1. To attend District officers' Association meetings (CMC Section 1122-3rd); and
  2. To be qualified to give the work and lectures of the First and Second Degrees; to have a certificate of proficiency in the Candidate's Lecture of the Degree of Master Mason and be thoroughly proficient in those portions of the Constitution and Regulations of the Grand Lodge which relate to the government of a Lodge (CMC Section 2516).

RITUAL IMPLIED:

  1. To learn the work and lecture of the Third Degree and the ritual required to be qualified as Master;
  2. To be qualified to give the work of the Senior Warden in all three degrees;
  3. To take charge of all Second Degrees; and
  4. To attend all degree practices designated by the Master.

RITUAL SUGGESTED:

  1. To examine all candidates to see if they are properly prepared; and
  2. To review all signs, tokens and words of the preceding degree(s) of all Second and Third Degree candidates prior to the start of the degrees.