HEM151 2025-10-26T12:35:32Z

HEM 151The HEM151 application is an app designed to keep the members of Herbert E. Lodge #151 connected and informed. Members can join conversations, share photos and videos, obtain contact information for other members and learn about upcoming events. The HEM151 app is designed for the membership o

Rain lashed against my apartment window in Portland, the rhythmic drumming mirroring the hollow ache in my chest. Six months since relocating for the engineering job, and I'd become a ghost in my own fraternity. Missed initiations, absent from charity drives, my Masonic apron gathering dust in a drawer. That Thursday night, scrolling through old photos of lodge gatherings, the gulf felt physical – 2,300 miles of severed handshakes and unfinished rituals.

Rain lashed against my apartment window in Dublin, each drop echoing the hollowness I'd carried since leaving Boston. Six months into this corporate exile, the framed photo of our lodge initiation ceremony mocked me from the mantelpiece. That tight circle of clasped forearms felt like ancient history until Mark's text lit up my phone: "Get HEM151. The brothers are waiting."