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FROM THE EAST

HANOVER, MASSACHUSETTS

January 23, 2009

It was great to see the sidelines so full last month as we conferred the Entered Apprentice Degree on our two newest Brothers. This month they will have the privilege of receiving the Fellow Craft Degree performed by the sideliners under the direction of Wor. Bud Mosher. The sideliners are Brothers who are not Officers but who would like to perform a small part of ritual and floor work. Last year it was a great success and this year they are studying and rehearsing very hard so please come and support them as well as our new Brothers.

We had our first fellowship night at the Lodge with Bro. Jim Veneto making a delicious sauce with pasta. The cable is hooked back up for your viewing pleasure and there are various games cards, cribbage, darts or whatever else you would like to bring. It was nice to talk with the Brothers who were there in a relaxed setting without doing a meeting. Remember to check your emails as these nights will probably be a little more spontaneous and informal. Thanks also to Bro. Tom Malhames for helping Bro. Jim in the kitchen.

Tickets are on sale now for both our Corn Beef and Cabbage night on March 13^th $15.00 per person or $25.00 a couple and our Ladies Night on May 1^st $30.00 per person or $50.00 a couple. These events are open to the public so please bring your non mason friends and let them see what we do in our Lodge. Also the next Open House is on March 27^th where we will be conducting a MYChip event. Also I spoke at our last meeting about bringing in new socks or underclothes to be gathered and given to an organization that distributes them to very needy kids and families in the Greater New Bedford area. There will be a bin placed by the coat room for your donations.

This meeting also marks a very special night for me as I will be making my first Fraternal Visit to Phoenix as the new District Deputy of the 18^th District. It is a great privilege for me to have been appointed by the Grand Master to represent him and The Grand Lodge. I have been very fortunate in my 23 years as a Mason to have been mentored by some of our great Past Masters, to have the support of so many Brothers of our Lodge in the activities we have undertaken over the years and I can’t thank you all enough for this support. I have assembled a great team of Officers for my Suite and we are all looking forward to help every Lodge in the District to be the best they can be and to make the 18^th District ‘The’ District in Massachusetts.

Fraternally; R.W.  Arnie    Master ‘The’ Phoenix Lodge

The Worshipful's - Johnson & Friedman - October 2009

BEHAVIOUR after the LODGE is over and the BRETHREN not GONE
You may enjoy yourself with innocent Mirth, treating one another according to Ability, but avoiding all Excess, or forcing any Brother to eat or drink beyond his Inclination, or hindering him from going when his Occasions call him, or doing or saying anything offensive, or that may forbid an easy and free Conversation, for that would blast our Harmony, and defeat our laudable Purposes. Therefore no private Piques or Quarrels must be brought within the Door of the Lodge, far less any Quarrels about Religion, or Nations, or State Policy, we being only, as Masons, of the Universal Religion above mention'd, we are also of all Nations, Tongues, Kindreds, and Languages, and are resolv’d against all Politics, as what never yet conduct'd to the Welfare of the Lodge, nor ever will.