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In this issue:

 

Service Committee

 Calendar of Events From the East Special Visitors to GCL

The Complete Notice

 

PASSWORD

ENCRYPTED

 

 
 

 

460 Newtonville Avenue, Newtonville, MA 02460

Fifth Masonic District

 

EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHT-FIRST COMMUNICATION

Dear Brother;

A Regular Stated Communication of

GARDEN CITY LODGE, A.F. & A.M.

will be held at the Masonic Apartments

460 Newtonville Avenue, Newtonville, Massachusetts, on:

THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2024

 All members are requested to attend,

and all Masons are cordially invited.

 

6:30 P.M:  DINNER

Shepherds Pie

Alternate: Some kind of Fish

Catered by:
Neillio's Catering

  Meal Cost .............. $25.00

For meal reservations, please contact our
Junior Warden, Bro. John R. Harrington, II,
or use our on-line reservation form
to indicate your choice of entree no
later than 6:00pm, Sunday, March 10, 2024.

Reservations are required!

Brethren, Please honor your reservations.

7:15 P.M: OPEN LODGE - THIRD DEGREE

7:20 P.M:  BUSINESS MEETING

A.        To receive the reports of the Treasurer and Secretary.

B.   To ballot on the following application:

          One applicant

C.   To read and accept applications.

D.  To transact any other business that may legally come before the Lodge.

WORK:

MASTER MASON DEGREE:
Second and Third Sections

CLOSE:

A collation will be available in the dining hall
at the conclusion of the meeting.
 

Attest:

By Order of:

 

 

Service Committee:

 

Please notify the Service Committee chairman, Wor. Ross Scribner, the Master or Secretary with any news concerning the welfare of the Brethren and their families.

Get well wishes to Cynthia Bethune, wife of R.W. Larry E. Bethune, who is recovering at home following surgery.

 

Special Visitors to Garden City Lodge:

The Lodge was honored to host Bro. Christopher A. Lopes of King David Lodge in Taunton (l) who presented an interesting paper on the Freemasons of West Point. He was accompanied by Wor. Robert Robertson, (r) a Past Provincial Grand Sword Bearer of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Somerset, England. Also shown is Rt. Wor. Joseph A. Manzo, Jr, the DDGM of the 5th District and Wor. Christopher N. Kelley, the Master of Garden City Lodge. Both visitors were presented with a GCL Challenge coin by the Master.

 

 

 

 
 
Calendar of Events:

NOTE:  All dates below are tentative and assume we will be able to meet as scheduled.

 

EVENT DATE and INFORMATION
5th Lodge of Instruction http://www.fifthmasonicdistrict.org/loi.html

 

DATE

EVENT

March 7, 2024

Officers' Rehearsal

March 9, 2024

Masters Path, Wakefield

March 13, 2024

Grand Lodge Quarterly Communication

March 14, 2024

Garden City Lodge Stated Communication

March 30, 2024

Colonial Craftsmen Degree, Newton

April 11, 2024

Table Lodge* or Festive Board

 

*pending a dispensation



From the East:

        

Dear Brethren, 

February was a wonderful meeting as the food was great, the presenter was excellent and even though attendance was light we all had a very enjoyable evening. Thanks again to Bros. Michael Barg, John Harrington, John Hernandez, and Wor. Thomas Harte for always making sure we are properly provided.

A big thank you to Bro. Christopher Lopes for his presentation on the Freemasons of West Point (the United States Military Academy), and the honor of having a Past Provincial Grand Sword Bearer for the Province of Somerset of the United Grand Lodge of England, Wor. Robert Robertson, Brother Lopes’ father-in-law, in attendance to share his knowledge and experiences abroad. We wish him safe travels back to his country at the end of the month.

For our March meeting, we will be exemplifying the Master Mason Degree with an exemplar to prepare for the annual exemplification later in the month that will be held at the Lodge of Instruction, and all officers must attend.

We will also be balloting on a candidate for the degrees. If the ballot is favorable, the next few months will be busy. We will do a special Entered Apprentice Degree on our April rehearsal night, then a joint Table Lodge in Newtonville on our regular April meeting with Moses Michael Hays Lodge which we have received a dispensation.  We will then plan a Fellow Craft Degree in May and a nice Past Masters’ Night to end the year in June. Also, please don’t forget the Colonial Craftsman Degree on Saturday, March 30th. This will be the Third Degree performed as it would have been in the 1700s and very similar to how our forefathers, like George Washington and Paul Revere, were raised as Master Masons.  This will be open to Master Masons only.

I have appointed merger and nominating committees to start our planning for the future of Garden City Lodge. For those of you who attend regularly, you know that we need changes to happen to enable it to continue to grow and prosper. Those changes are either a merger or, more members and past masters have to step forward to help fill the chairs in the Lodge and take active roles.  It cannot continue to be the same people carrying the Lodge. Please consider this over the next couple of months and always I appreciate the work that every brother of the Lodge does for Freemasonry.  Thank you all for your continued support.

      Warmly and fraternally,

 

 

Wor. Christopher N. Kelley, Master

  

 

 



 

 

 

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