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Monty Thurman
Living The Craft One Day At A Time "Large Print Edition"
by Monty Thurman, P.M. 32°
You took your obligations. Now live them. The Lodge gave you the principles. The Everyday Mason gives you the daily practice that turns those principles into the man you obligated yourself to become.
The Everyday Mason: Living the Craft One Day at a Time — Large Print Edition
Five Foundation Stones. Minutes a day. A lifetime of difference.
The Everyday Mason is a practical daily guide built on five habits drawn from the Entered Apprentice degree — the same degree where every Mason's journey began: Prayer, Kindness, Brother Outreach, Learning, and Reflection. Each one takes only minutes to practice. Together, they form a complete rhythm for living the Craft not occasionally, in Lodge, but daily, in the ordinary moments where character is actually built.
No theories to debate. No programs to complete. Just habits — simple, sustainable, and deeply rooted in what every Mason was already taught at the altar.
Written by a third-generation Master Mason, Past Master, Grand Lodge Membership Liaison, and pipe organ designer who has spent a career building things meant to endure for generations.
The Everyday Mason carries a foreword by Sir Knight Robert Elsner, Associate Grand Prelate of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar USA, and an endorsement from Grand Master Randolph L. Seipel of the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Indiana.
It has already reached Brothers across the country — from newly raised Master Masons finding their footing to 41-year Brothers rediscovering what first drew them to the Craft.
For autographed copies, reach out to me directly at bro.mont@yahoo.com.
One dollar from every copy sold here benefits the Indiana Masonic Home Foundation.
Masonry works — when it is lived daily.
“The stepping-stones that Monty lays out are important steps to the personal growth that we obligate ourselves to. He uses instructions that are reiterative and focused, adding in exercises and questions for you to contemplate in your own time. These deceptively simple steps are personal challenges and strategies that are intrinsic to being a Mason.”
Rob Elsner, 33°, GCT, KYGCH, FMR, PDDGM Associate Grand Prelate, GEKT, Alabama
“I have been a Master Mason for some 41 years and have never seen anything so succinct, simple, and powerful. Following Brother Thurman's habits has been remarkably transformative for me in just a few days. This is how I'm going to make this good man better.”
Christopher Hochmuth, P.M. 32°, Colorado
“I have one copy to read and one to share with a brother!”
Joshua D. Thurman, Indiana
“Brother Monty Thurman's "Everyday Mason" is a timely reminder that the Craft isn't something you belong to — it's something you practice. Most of us already know that. But every now and then, a book like this is worth putting in front of the ones who might need the reminder.”
Glenn A. Blackwood, P.M. Mystic Tie Lodge #398, 32°, Indiana
“Taking my time with this, no need to rush……but WB Monty Thurman, there’s a line you have in here that has stuck in my head since last night. “Masonry works…..when it’s lived daily”.”
Chris Stewart, S.W. Prospect Lodge #714, Indiana
“The internal qualifications of a man are what masonry regards. This book shows you how to apply the lessons we learn in lodge to our daily lives. It explains how to use these lessons to be a better brother and a better man.”
Alex Springer, PM 32°, Nineveh Lodge #317
Practical Freemasonry for real life — not just lodge nights.
I’ve been a Mason for many years — initiated October 14, 1980, the same year I began a journey that now spans four generations of my family. As a Past Master of Nineveh Lodge No. 317, Grand Lodge District Ritual Instructor and Membership Liaison for Districts 6, and a member of the Scottish Rite, York Rite, Royal Order of Scotland, and National Sojourners, I’ve instructed thousands of Indiana Brothers in ritual over more than three decades. I don’t write theory. I write what works in daily life — for the new Brother finding his footing, and the Past Master who still wants the Craft to mean something when he walks out of lodge.
Living the Craft, One Day at a Time
Most men don't drift from their Masonic principles because they stop believing in them. They drift because no one showed them how to carry those principles into Monday morning.