Every Degree conferred in a Chapter of Royal Arch Masons has a familiar connection to the Blue Lodge, and greatly expands the lessons first introduced there.
Meetings
Fourth Thursday of each month (second Thursday in November and December) · Meal 6:00 pm, meeting 7:00 pm
York Rite Building, 5625 Villa Dr., Lubbock, Texas
The Capitular Degrees
York Rite Masonry expands and clarifies the teachings of Craft Masonry. Like the Degrees of the Symbolic Lodge, the Capitular Degrees concern the building, completion and dedication of King Solomon’s Temple, and they show what followed the tragedy at the Temple. In them, the legacy of Hiram is carried to a meaningful conclusion.
The ceremonies will feel familiar to any Master Mason. The lessons are conveyed as ritual dramas, much like the Master Mason Degree, and they revolve around one great central idea: the True Word. Lost in the Lodge, it is recovered in the Chapter, and its importance and meaning to Masonry are finally explained.
Mark Master
The Senior Warden pays the Craft their wages on behalf of the Master. In the Mark Master Degree, the candidate learns what those wages truly are in the eyes of the Grand Architect of the Universe, and how they are dispensed.
Past Master
The lesson of harmony
Ancient custom required that a Mason be a Past Master before he could be exalted to the Royal Arch. This Degree maintains that custom. It confers no actual rank, and in some Grand Jurisdictions it is conferred upon all sitting Masters of Blue Lodges.
Most Excellent Master
The lesson of reverence
The Temple is completed and dedicated, and the Sanctum Sanctorum is consecrated. The Degree complements the Mark Master Degree and teaches that no work of beauty, however well planned and perfected, is truly complete until a great secret is unveiled in the soul of its builder.
Royal Arch
Long regarded as the completion of the Master Mason Degree, the Royal Arch explains the origin of the substitute word, the recovery of the Ineffable Word, and its concealment within the Royal Arch Word. Together, the two Degrees tell of the loss and the recovery of the Master’s Word.
Officers for 2026–2027
- High PriestZakary Wyatt
- Excellent KingJames A. Clark
- Excellent ScribeJ. W. Jolly III
- Treasurer
- RecorderJeremy D. Hogan
- Captain of the HostJody Slaughter
- Principal Sojourner
- Royal Arch Captain
- Chaplain
- Master of the Third Veil
- Master of the Second Veil
- Master of the First Veil
- Guard
Join us
Any Master Mason in good standing may petition the Chapter. We are always glad to welcome visiting Companions.
Questions? Email us at YorkRiteLubbock@gmail.com.