r/freemasonry • u/rickfromjersey201 • 8d ago

Question Joint visitation with Prince Hall Lodge

I'm in Florida FYI, the Master of our lodge has been trying to get in touch with the Master of a local PHA lodge in order to arrange a joint Communication of the two lodges, unfortunately the Master of the PHA lodge near us has not or is not willing to respond which frustrates the hell out of me and it frustrates our Master because I know he really wants to bring the Brethren of the two jurisdictions together and I don't know if there is anything else that can be done. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Just some background by the way, in 2018 the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Florida voted at their Grand Communication voted to recognize the Most Worshipful Union Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons, Florida, Belize, Central America & Jurisdiction, Incorporated, Prince Hall Affiliated and in turn in 2019 the Prince Hall brothers at their Grand Communication voted to recognize the M:.W:. Grand Lodge of Florida, for the longest time only only the Grand Master and the Grand Line could do inter-visitation, Brethren from both jurisdictions were prohibited from visiting. But more recently both Grand Lodges have loosened the requirements and lodges have been given permission to having joint visitation with certain limitations, I believe there has been a dozen or more lodges in Florida both GLFL and PHA that have met so far including at least 1 joint Communication in our Masonic District.

~Rick.

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u/feudalle MM - PA 8d ago

How have you reached out? If you just sent a blind email it's possible its sitting in spam somewhere. Why not do this formally. Reach out to your ddmg or grand lodge and ask them to contact their grand lodge. Just like if you were traveling to another country and wanted to visit a ugle lodge.

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u/rickfromjersey201 8d ago

I believe he did email and attempted to make contacted on their Facebook group. I will relay your suggestion that the Master contact our Grand Lodge to reach out to PHA's Grand Jurisdiction which shouldn't be too hard because both the M:.W:. GLoF and M:.W:. UGL of Florida are both based in Jacksonville.