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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:25:08 +0000

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An interesting article about our declining numbers - Freemason Hall Community — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:50:39 +0000

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By: Charles Martin

Charles Martin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:35:16 +0000

My lodge meetings consist of:

Opening
Read the minutes
Read the sick list
pay the bills
close the meeting
drink stale coffee, chew on a stale cookie
go home

Our lodge does not have a website. Our grand lodge forbids the “2B1 ASK1″ bumper sticker. We don’t have an answering maching on the lodge phone.

We have no lodge newspaper. We have no outreach program for our widows.

Any new idea or program is shot down with “We never did it that way before”.

Our lodge is dying. Our Grand Lodge is dying.

Why am I not surprised?

By: templeofdafoe

templeofdafoe — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:28:24 +0000

Good to read your words Tom. I may well be in Ontario for a wedding this fall. Who knows where I might land while wandering about.

By: Tom Hogeboom

Tom Hogeboom — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:26:06 +0000

Hey Steven:

Glad to see you are still at it! Have you heard of our new lodge in Frontenac District – templumfidelis.com Just Consecrated last Saturday!

Let me know if you ever know you are going to be back our way for one of our meetings – always looking for interesting speakers to make us think!

All the best!

twh

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Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:43:44 +0000

[...] Note: The following article originally ran in the pages of Masonic Magazine as an editorial. I am posting it for those not familiar with it, as it is referred to in the previous article, There’s a hole in our bucket. [...]

By: templeofdafoe

templeofdafoe — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:00:30 +0000

Building the individual is first and foremost and I have been saying that for years and why my talks in lodges are usually geared towards explaining the degrees and how to apply that set of lessons and symbolism to our lives.

I too think the Masonic pie has been sliced too thin. York Rite and Scottish Rite beign one slice, AMD, Amaranth, Shrine, Widows[sic] Sons, Masonic geocaching societies and all the others slicing the pie thinner and thinner. A right angled triangle is a fourth part of a circle, not an eigth or sixteenth or even 32th.

I’ll not comment on the organization itself beign bloated via Grand Lodge as I operate in a jurisdiction that does not have a lot of fluffy positions, where we have open elections (three for GSW and four for GJW this year) and where EVERY Master Mason has a vote in Grand Lodge.

By: Raum Sariel

Raum Sariel — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:41:49 +0000

This was a very good article Bro.dafoe and I appreciate you posting it. Of course in my opinion the reason for Masonic decline lay deep within the fact of organizational structure being overloaded and bloated in the first place. It is not the “glorious” buildings of the 1920’s that we have to save, it is the building of the temple not made by hands that we have to build.

Fraternally,
Raum Sariel

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By: Lucrecio Emerito

Lucrecio Emerito — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:37:04 +0000

A very good article indeed. I very much agree with your conclusion. Outsiders are interested to know what Freemasonry can teach them.