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to virtue and dig dark and deep prisons to vice. There are no stops of any kind on this route. The universal construction site is always open and the future must be built.
The article by WBro Stephen Daly, ‘Humour in troubled times’ and the work of Bruce Bairnsfather certainly struck a chord with me.
So every night we think of our brothers and sisters who have moved to the eternal East and remember them with much affection. Their broken lives must be an example for us to take forward in order to build something beautiful in their memory. And let’s put the Bricks of Brotherhood on top of each other.
I can’t remember how long ago I acquired this small plate, but I found it in an antique shop somewhere and it had to come home with me! Old Bill, sitting in ruins, shells flying by is writing to his mother ‘At present we are staying at a farmhouse!’.
And, even though we cannot come together physically, let us do it virtually, in our minds and spirits. ‘Nothing will prevent the sun from rising again, not even the darkest night,’ Gibran wrote.
Fraternally, Roland Millbank Army & Navy 517
A moving meeting Thank you for arranging the Zoom meeting, Richard. It was good to meet up with some of the lodge members. The ANZAC poem In Flanders’ Fields, recited by the WM, was particularly moving for me. My grand uncle, Sgt David S Anderson, tragically lost his life in Fromelles (just south of Flanders) on 19 July 1916. My wife Wendy and I, and seven other relatives, including one who had given the DNA that proved a match with David, were able to attend his reinterment ceremony in Fromelles on 19 July 2014 and visit many other sites in the Somme area. A truly moving event. Regards, Graeme Robinson Lodge Wahroonga ED: This was emailed to me after Lodge Wahroonga’s April regular meeting – held by Zoom. It is newsworthy because the virtual lodge meeting initiative resulted in an inactive brother giving us the pleasure of his company!
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Bro Millbank’s decorative plate featuring Old Bill, a character whose history is recounted in last issue’s article; Humour in troubled times.
An open letter from the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy. (Kindly translated by RW Bro Toni Maiorana) These are very difficult times for everyone. The pandemic has closed our Temples, preventing us from working ritually as we should be doing.
This is also the Beauty and the extraordinary strength of Freemasonry which tells us to join forces and to look with expanding hope to a future – ready to give everything for our homeland, our brothers and for all Italians. Grand Master Stefano Bisi
Some old times
are new again
The coronavirus has killed thousands of people, has sneakily torn us apart from so many wonderful brothers, to whose families go our great condolences, but it has no power over our will and over our hearts as Freemasons. There is no virus with the strength to penetrate and to be able to subdue us and darken the flame of Liberty. Even if each of us is alone our initiatory work does not stop and goes on daily. We must all continue together to raise temples
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