From the Worshipful Master
As we come back from being dark over the summer, it is very easy to look back on all we have done this far this year. That is not to say that we are done. Far from it. We still have fund raising events and other things plan as we begin to look towards the future of Wayfarers as we begin our ending to the year.
September is always the time where we come back, ready to work, ready to make good good men Masons, but it is also a time of reflection. We have done a lot this year. We fixed our insurance woes. We raised a lot of money at the Pig Out (thank you OES and Jobies). We cleaned out the lodge storage room. We re-keyed the lodge for better security. We have done a lot. But we need to do more.
Our officers are working very hard to make sure that we are financially strong. With the new expenses brought upon us by our insurance dilemma, I am asking that everyone please take time to support the efforts of our lodge officers who are tasked with putting on fund raising events. We have a breakfast October 17, and we need to make it a good one. Please find it in your heart to volunteer, spend a little money, eat a good breakfast, socialize with your brothers, and support the lodge. We are always here for you, but right now we need you here for us.
I look forward to seeing everyone in lodge as we start to close out this year and I am looking to the future with high hopes for Wayfarers as we move further and further into the unknown.
Jason Michlowitz
Worshipful Master
From the Senior Warden
It’s been a difficult year for Arizona Masonry in general, and Wayfarers Lodge, in particular. Yet, we’ve dealt with those difficulties and found strength.
While dealing with an emergency change in insurance, the passing of family, friends, and Brothers, and issues with our line, Wayfarers has still kept going.
We celebrated our 65th anniversary. We initiated candidates and helped make good men, better men. We rearranged schedules and planned events and our future.
Some of these things may seem like small accomplishments, but they are accomplishments nonetheless. And by these and others, Wayfarers has grown and improved itself.
Bryan Bullock
Senior Warden
From the Junior Warden
Masons are urged to advance their education in three fields during our rituals. Some view the three part initiation of Free masonry as representing a progressive teaching directed toward perfecting human nature. It is a straightforward view of human nature divided into three parts: body, mind and soul.
Each Degree instructs one part.
- The Entered Apprentice Degree encompasses the body and our faculties of action in the worlds. The four cardinal virtues guides to our action in the world that we may perfect our relation to it.
- The Fellow Craft Degree addresses the mind and its faculties. We are instructed in the Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences, which were formulated hundreds of years ago, in order to develop the mental nature.
- The Third Degree confers the central Mystery of Freemasonry. this is, how the soul may be brought to its perfection.
Ben Kruse
Junior Warden