{"id":33,"date":"2025-11-24T12:18:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:21:10","slug":"chapter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"RA CHAPTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-228 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/New-Logo-709x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/New-Logo-709x1024.png 709w, https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/New-Logo-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/New-Logo-768x1109.png 768w, https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/New-Logo.png 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1>Welcome to the Thomas Ralling Chapter.<\/h1>\n<p>We are a reasonably sized Chapter that meets at Loughton in the Province of Essex.<\/p>\n<p>In pure ancient Freemasonry there are four Ceremonies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entered Apprentice<\/li>\n<li>Fellow Craft<\/li>\n<li>Master Mason<\/li>\n<li>Royal Arch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Royal Arch, or Chapter, completes a Freemason&#8217;s journey, and all Freemason should join, or at least plan to join, the Royal Arch to experience the journey. The Royal Arch and Craft are moving closer together and it is now considered as &#8220;One Journey, One Organisation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Chapter is \u201cattached\u201d to the Thomas Ralling Lodge\u00a0and was Founded in 1907, 13 years after the Lodge was Founded.<\/p>\n<p>The Chapter is &#8220;fed&#8221; from a number of Lodges, particularly those in the Family Tree, and this enables meetings to be vibrant, diverse and enlightening.<\/p>\n<p>Currently we meet on Fridays in January (2nd), March (1st), and October (3rd), and usually start at 5:00pm and dine around 7:00pm.\u00a0\u00a0The January meeting is the Installation meeting.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in joining Thomas Ralling Chapter please go to the Contact page and email or call the Secretary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"footer\">\n<div id=\"footer-area\" class=\"widget-area\" role=\"complementary\">\n<div class=\"column fourcol\">\n<aside id=\"text-2\" class=\"widget widget_text\">\n<h3 class=\"widget-title\">Where do we meet?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"textwidget\">\n<p>Loughton Masonic Centre,<br \/>\n16 High Beech Road,<br \/>\nLoughton,<br \/>\nEssex,<br \/>\nIG10 4BL<br \/>\nUK<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column fourcol\">\n<aside id=\"text-3\" class=\"widget widget_text\">\n<h3 class=\"widget-title\">When do we meet in 2026?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"textwidget\">\n<ul>\n<li>Friday 9th January<\/li>\n<li>Friday 6th March<\/li>\n<li>Friday 16th October<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Thomas Ralling Chapter. We are a reasonably sized Chapter that meets at Loughton in the Province of Essex. In pure ancient Freemasonry there are four Ceremonies: Entered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}