Dispensation Granted
Monday, January 31, 1820
Chartered Tuesday, December 12, 1820
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NO. 58, F. & A. M.
Dispensation Granted
Monday, January 31, 1820
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Master Sr. Warden
Jr. Warden
Treasurer Secretary Sr. Deacon
Jr. Deacon
Tyler Trustees Medina Lodge No.
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TRESTLEBOARD
October 2004
Greetings Brethren,
I am very pleased to see the attendance at our meetings on a steady increase, even though it would be great to see the lodge room filled to capacity. With so much work yet to do, I can hardly believe that my year of serving as the Master of this lodge is drawing to a quick end. It seems like only a month ago that I took my station in the east, but I have thoroughly enjoyed my year.
Please dont forget we still need all the help we can get to finish these pending degrees. We will be conferring a Master Mason degree on October 21, 2004 and still need many parts filled. Please contact our Fellow Craft Team captain, Lloyd Egbert, at 330-225-5883 if you can help.
My sympathy is with the Gordon Shuler family for the loss of their son Donald this past summer. The loss of a son or daughter is even more devastating than I can comprehend, my prayers are with you!!
Fraternally,
Roger A. Thomas, Master
Vernon M Lutz
It is with regret that we record the death at the age of 96, on Tuesday 22 June 2004, of Brother Vernon M Lutz. Vernon was initiated into Medina Lodge on 11 September 1930 at the age of 22. Our deepest sympathies are extended to his family.
Thank You Brother Rapp
Medina Lodge and the trustees of the Temple Company gratefully acknowledge Brother William Rapp's gift of $1,000.00 to the Medina Masonic Temple Company. May God bless you, Brother Rapp, for your generosity.
Annual Dues
Annual Dues are payable as of the Annual Meeting, November 11, 2004. Members who have not paid their dues by November 11 may attend Lodge until December 31, 2004 but may not vote on issues brought before the membership. Members whose dues remain unpaid after December 31, 2004 are required to be suspended and thus lose all Masonic rights and privileges.
Members whose dues have not been received by October 19, 2004 will receive a reminder shortly after that date. We know everyone who receives a reminder has not forgotten about their dues. But we do not know who those brethren are. It is a routine but necessary administrative procedure.
CLC Dyslexia Walk
On Sunday, October 17, 2004, at Lake Farm Park in Kirtland, the Scottish Rite's Cleveland Learning Center is holding its annual walk event to raise funds to help dyslexic children learn to read. Contact Brother Donald Moll (330-225-6307) for further information on how you can join the walk.
Cemetery Plots Available
The family of one of our deceased brethren has notified us that they have two burial plots located in the Masonic section of Sunset Memorial Park, 6265 Columbia Road, North Olmsted, Ohio. They are offering them for sale at $500.00 each. If you are interested in purchasing one or both of these plots please contact your lodge secretary.
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The Ideal Lodge
The ideal lodge can be described as a lodge that practices traditional Masonry, while taking into account today's societal needs. Society is changing, as are its values and its approach to moral and ethical issues. Those changes dictate similar adjustments to the role of Masonry in today's world.
Over many decades, especially in the United States, our lodge programs have developed in directions that many no longer consider a vital part of society. In order to preserve our craft and hand it down to future generations, we in America need to make immediate and dramatic changes in our lodges not in the craft's ritual and philosophy, but in the way we practice that ritual and develop our understanding of that philosophy.
How are we to decide what changes should be made? We will certainly have to become architects of many lodge programs of uniquely modern design. But we need not rely solely upon ourselves to discover the major principles by which our lodge programs are to be administered. I suggest that the Master's hand can be found in work that was once discarded as unfit for use in our temples. In my view, Benjamin Franklin's Lodge of the Nine Muses may be a good model when rebuilding our fraternity.
Every ideal lodge must share the following elements: strong leadership with great spirit in all lodge activities, a good planning committee, and an exciting educational program for developing high-quality membership.
In order to build a good lodge that can address society's needs, we must start with strong leadership. The lodge must have a Master and a group of officers who are willing to work as a team. This model permits the Master to focus upon the lodge as a whole rather than becoming bogged down in the details of every aspect of its program.
The Master should have help in the planning as well as the operation of the ideal lodge program. The lodge should have a strong planning committee in charge of mapping out activities that promote the lodge's yearly goals. It is the planning committee, with guidance of the Master, that provides a design worthy of the members' team spirit in promoting the goals of the lodge.
Finally and most importantly, the ideal lodge should enjoy an environment that attracts qualified and influential candidates. The value and importance of the degrees must be enhanced, not diminished. The members of the ideal lodge must be committed to making the Master Mason's degree the worthy goal that the candidate must earn. ( |
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MASONIC SNIPPETS If a lecture is worth doing it is worth doing well. A good presentation (or a bad one) leaves a special impression on the candidate and the other Brethren. The only thing that makes a deeper impression on a candidate is to see the members leave before the lecture. (Anon.) "Freemasonry has endured not because of its antiquity, its influence, or its social standing, but because there have been so many who have lived it. The effectiveness of Masonic teachings will always be the measure by which the outside world judges Freemasonry; the proof of Freemasonry is in our deeds and it is in our deeds that Freemasonry is made known to non-Masons. The only way that the Craft can be judged is by its product. The prestige of Freemasonry lies squarely on the shoulders of each of us." (Sir Knight G. Wilbur Bell, Most Eminent Past Grand Master of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar ) "There is not a subject so little understood by even its own members as that of Freemasonry. It is not in the strict sense an order. Its purpose is more clearly defined when it is called a fraternity, a brotherhood, or an institution. It is certainly not a club. Ritualism is not Masonry. The ritual is the vehicle which conveys the sublime truths to the heart and mind. If the forms and ceremonies through which the candidate passes fail to lift him to higher conceptions of life, duty and charity, then they are mere sounding brass and tinkling cymbal." (West Australian Craftsman as quoted in the South Dakota Masonic Messenger, February 1974) "The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone." (Dr. Joseph Fort Newton) "The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken to your heart, and from it to the heart of your brother. Never the language made for tongue may speak it; it is uttered only in the eye in those manifestations of that love which a man has for his friend, which passeth all other loves." (February 1975 South Dakota Masonic Messenger)
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