Bayou Fellowship Lodge #484

05/12/2026

03/11/2026

🔥 This Day in History – March 11, 1314 🔥

On this day, Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was executed in Paris.

After years of imprisonment and forced confessions under pressure from King Philip IV of France, de Molay stood before the crowd and declared the Order innocent of the charges brought against it.

He was burned at the stake on an island in the Seine.

⚔️ Whether one views him as martyr, military monk, or symbol of resistance to political power, his death marked the end of the medieval Templar Order — at least officially.

But history rarely ends cleanly.

In 1737, Chevalier Ramsay introduced an oration suggesting that Freemasonry descended from crusading orders — including the Templars. That speech helped fuel what we now call the “Templar myth” within Masonry: the idea that persecuted knights preserved their traditions in secret and passed them into the Craft.

Is it historically proven? No.
Is it symbolically powerful? Absolutely.

🗝️ The Templar story represents loyalty under persecution.
Honor under pressure.
Conviction in the face of death.

For many Masons — especially within York Rite and chivalric degrees — the image of Jacques de Molay stands as a reminder that integrity matters more than survival.

We don’t claim medieval knighthood.
But we do claim the same obligation:

To stand upright.
To defend truth.
To keep our word — even when it costs something.

📖 History informs us.
🔺 Symbolism shapes us.
🛠 Character defines us.

— Blue Collar Freemason

12/12/2025

Bayou Fellowship Lodge recently hosted its annual officer installation ceremony. The lodge expresses gratitude to all who participated.

09/30/2025

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05/13/2025

This was a very successful and enjoyable ceremony hosted by Bayou Fellowship Lodge # 484 F&AM and supported by Lafourche Lodge # 427 F&AM. Congratulations to the students who receive the awards. Claire Rebstock, and Terrence Pitre from South Lafourche High School were recognized and gifted with the award by bayou Fellowship Lodge # 484 F&AM and Lafourche Lodge # 427 F&AM. Also receiving the award were Peyton Besson and Jolee Richoux from Grand Isle High School who were recognized and gifted with the reward by Bayou Fellowship Lodge # 484 F&AM

07/22/2024

You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.
Why did you spill the coffee?
"Because someone bumped into me!!!"
Wrong answer.
You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup.
Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.
Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.
Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It's easy to fake it, until you get rattled.
So we have to ask ourselves... “what's in my cup?"
When life gets tough, what spills over?
Joy, gratitude, peace and humility?
Anger, bitterness, victim mentality and quitting tendencies?
Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.
Today let's work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, resilience, positivity; and kindness, gentleness and love for others.

06/17/2024

Remember your origins to appreciate your progress.

04/27/2024

We are saddened with the passing of Brother Eddie St. Pierre. Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Eddie John St. Pierre, 76, a native of Cut Off and resident of Lockport passed away on Saturday, April 20, 2024.

Visitation will be held at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church in Larose on Monday, April 29th from 9:30 a.m. until funeral time. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. with burial to follow in the church cemetery