Cabletow 4th issue - GM Ebdane - Grand Lodge of the Philippines

The Cabletow
On the last week of the same month, all roads lead to Cebu City. The
brethren of the host district have assured us that they are exerting every ounce of
energy to make the 90 th Ancom of our Grand Lodge a big “showcase” for Philippine
Masonry and the delegates’ stay in Cebu City a truly pleasant and memorable one.
But, of course, we must not lose sight of the necessity of choosing those who
will lead the Craft if we are to recapture our lost glory and become once more a
deciding influence in this country.
Looking Forward to the New Masonic Year
After the Ancom in Cebu City, as Symbolic Lodges and as Masonic Districts, we
should be highly resolved to align our program of activities to the new Grand
Lodge leadership’s program thrusts and calendar of events, which we are
confident are a continuation of those jumpstarted by MW Jun Ebdane during his
watch.
Let us all face the new Masonic year with dedication to our Masonic duties and
obligations, more resolved than ever to do all that is in our power to make our
Masonry felt and seen around us. Let us convince the world, by our actions,
that the hope for friendship, peace, harmony and understanding lies in
Masonry in action.
Masonry in action, at least in part , is working, actively and earnestly, for the
benefit of our brethren, our country, and humanity; taking the side of the oppressed;
comforting and consoling the unfortunate and wretched; advocating the common
people in those things which concern the best interest of mankind; hating insolent
power and impudent usurpation; pitying the poor, the sorrowing and the disconsolate;
endeavoring to raise and improve the ignorant, the sunken, and the degraded.
(Morals and Dogma, or MAD for short, p. 152).
Masonry in action, let me add, is acquiring more and more light in Masonry and
dispersing the light of Masonic teachings as widely as we can; promoting universal
brotherhood, religious unity, and loftiness of character; and doing other things that
contribute to the attainment of an enlightened and a progressive humanity. Those
other things are suggested in the following quotation from Morals and Dogma (pp.
187-188):
“Is freedom yet universal? Have ignorance and prejudice disappeared
from the earth? Are there no longer enmities among men? … Do
toleration and harmony prevail among religious and political sects?
There are works yet left for Masonry to accomplish, (such as) to
enlighten the minds of people, to reconstruct society, to reform the
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