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

From the Grand Orient
The Cabletow
EXPRESSIONS OF GRATITUDE,
COMMENDATION, AND
CONFIDENCE
Since the short story of my one-year sojourn in the Grand
East will come to a climactic close at the Annual Communication
of our Grand Lodge in Cebu City, I want to dwell on four important things.
First, I want to express my deep and abiding gratitude to:
· The office and administrative staffs in the Grand Lodge, as well as
to the editorial staff of The Cabletow, for their unselfish cooperation and
dedication to duty, without which we would not have been able to fully
implement the administrative reforms we had instituted.
· All the brethren in our grand jurisdiction and their families for their
sincere gestures of warm welcome, admirable accommodation, and solid
show of zeal and enthusiasm for the Craft during my official visitations of
their areas of jurisdiction, as well as for their unstinted support and
cooperation in the implementation of our Grand Lodge’s program of
administration, which I jumpstarted and which I am confident my successors
will follow through.
· The officers and members of our Allied Orders – the Amaranth, the
Eastern Star, the Rainbow for Girls, the Job’s Daughter, and the DeMolay –
for extending to the brethren their helping hands in the conduct of projects
designed to make Masonry seen and felt by people in the communities.
Indeed, throughout my watch in the Grand East, I have witnessed the unity and
pride of the brethren and their families and the officers and members of our Allied
Orders in accomplishing things together so as to show off Masonry as a “quality
product” and create a demand for it, thereby removing every aspersion against it.
· The chairmen and members of the various Grand Lodge Committees
for expending time, talent and energy to accomplish their assigned tasks,
thereby demonstrating their zeal and enthusiasm for the Craft, the old
glory of which they really want to help recapture.
· The Board for General Purposes and the Council of Elders for lending
me, as Grand Master, their wise counsel, instructive tongue and attentive
ear when I consulted them on certain issues and concerns relating to the
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