We had Blue Lodge officer elections and installation tonight. I was appointed Senior Deacon for 2010. This is a great honor and privilege. I'm looking forward to the duties this office entails.
One, I believe it to be informative and enjoyable to read. I think that your approach to communicating that material is great!
Two, I like your use of the modified Pike quote for your definition of Freemasonry. I plan to use it, but only within the craft, but it provides too many avenues for questions from the uninitiated.
Last year, I was elected as Junior Warden after being Steward the prior year. This year, I was elected Senior Warden. It was a great honor in both cases, however I did miss out on learning the Senior Deacon's as well as others' parts. If given the opportunity over the coming years, I hope to go back through the chairs to serve in those positions that I skipped.
Our Junior Deacon has been out most of this past year for personal reasons. I've had to sit in that chair pro temp quite a bit and learned the part. So I don't feel like I've missed anything by jumping from Steward to Senior Deacon.
Devotion to the interests of the People; detestation of Tyranny; sacred regard for the rights of Free Thought, Free Speech, and Free Conscience; implacable hostility to Intolerance, bigotry, Arrogance and Usurpation; respect and regard for labor, which makes human nature noble; and scorn and contempt for all monopolies that minister to insolent and pampered luxury.
Raison d'ĂȘtre
This blog is intended to be a record of my journey into Freemasonry as well as periodic articles on, about, or related to the subject of Freemasonry.
Manthanein (pronounced man-tha- nine) is a transliteration from the Ancient Greek and means "to learn."
I am a Freemason ۞ I am a member of the Scottish Rite ۞ I am a Fellow of the Grand College of Rites ۞ I am a Christian ۞ I am a lawyer ۞ I have a master's degree in Theology and Apologetics
The Mason to whom Freemasonry is not a grave and serious affair is a false Mason; and if anything in the cremonial seems absurd or trivial, it seems so only to ignorance, which we are glad to enlighten, or to self-conceit, which is not worth enlightening.
-From the Entered Apprentice degree of the Scottish Rite
4 comments:
My comments are general to your blog:
One, I believe it to be informative and enjoyable to read. I think that your approach to communicating that material is great!
Two, I like your use of the modified Pike quote for your definition of Freemasonry. I plan to use it, but only within the craft, but it provides too many avenues for questions from the uninitiated.
Welcome to one of the busiests spots in a lodge.
Congrats!
Last year, I was elected as Junior Warden after being Steward the prior year. This year, I was elected Senior Warden. It was a great honor in both cases, however I did miss out on learning the Senior Deacon's as well as others' parts. If given the opportunity over the coming years, I hope to go back through the chairs to serve in those positions that I skipped.
Our Junior Deacon has been out most of this past year for personal reasons. I've had to sit in that chair pro temp quite a bit and learned the part. So I don't feel like I've missed anything by jumping from Steward to Senior Deacon.
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