Mentoring a New Brother (Pamphlet)

What do we mean when we say Mentor a New Brother?

The dictionary defines a “mentor” as “a close, trusted, experienced counselor or guide…” a “teacher, tutor, coach…” In part, the “Presentation Volume” defines the term “mentor” as: “Its motive is simply to indoctrinate each new Mason in the ways of Masonry…” “It will be the Mentor’s duty to prepare the mind of the candidate for the reception of the great truths of Freemasonry and an appreciation of its tenets and teachings.” More recently, if you ask a Brother “What is a Mentor?,” he would answer a coach, one who teaches a candidate the catechisms of the three degrees in Masonry.

For us, it should be so much more! All of the above should be combined with forming a lifelong bond with a new friend and Brother.