Comments for<title> http://www.navallodge87.org Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:07:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER’S LODGE by Kevin Smithhttp://www.navallodge87.org/east/not-your-grandfathers-lodge.html#comment-3 Kevin Smith Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:07:57 +0000 http://www.navallodge87.org/?p=61#comment-3 BrethrenMy wife and I will finally be moving to Vallejo from Toronto in late September, and after reading such progressive notes from the East, I look forward even more to the hope of being able to affiliate with Naval Lodge 87, and to serve under a WM with such a forward looking view of the steps that we need take to maintain and in some ways restore the relevance of Masonry to our communities. I look forward to visiting and hopefully affiliating at the first possible meeting after September 23rdS&F Bro. Kevin Smith St Aidans Lodge Toronto ON Brethren

My wife and I will finally be moving to Vallejo from Toronto in late September, and after reading such progressive notes from the East, I look forward even more to the hope of being able to affiliate with Naval Lodge 87, and to serve under a WM with such a forward looking view of the steps that we need take to maintain and in some ways restore the relevance of Masonry to our communities.
I look forward to visiting and hopefully affiliating at the first possible meeting after September 23rd

S&F
Bro. Kevin Smith
St Aidans Lodge
Toronto ON

]]> Comment on NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER’S LODGE by Edgarhttp://www.navallodge87.org/east/not-your-grandfathers-lodge.html#comment-2 Edgar Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:09:06 +0000 http://www.navallodge87.org/?p=61#comment-2 I was very interested by the comments of the Worshipful Master and concur with much he has to say. However, as much as we agree where the problem lies in general terms it is in the specifics that the solutions become problematical. One such problems is the constricting grasp that the Grand Lodge of California has over the autonomy of constituant Lodges. This is something specific to American Lodges and not so in Lodges where Freemasonry began - i.e. England. EWF I was very interested by the comments of the Worshipful Master and concur with much he has to say. However, as much as we agree where the problem lies in general terms it is in the specifics that the solutions become problematical. One such problems is the constricting grasp that the Grand Lodge of California has over the autonomy of constituant Lodges. This is something specific to American Lodges and not so in Lodges where Freemasonry began – i.e. England. EWF

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