The Master's Trestleboard

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My dearest Brethren,

I am honored to lead you this year as Waverly’s 129th Worshipful Master, and with gratitude for the support of my Wardens and officers.

This year is a return to intent: Through Masonic education, fellowship community service.

We will see changes to how we go about our Masonic ritual; whereby our work, the purpose of us being Masons in Masonry, is to be deeply experienced.

The intention of the environment and actions therein would reflect the sacred nature of what we do in an open lodge.

Additionally, emphasis will be placed upon Masonic education at every Stated meeting.

The intention is to stay true to the purpose of Blue Lodge: to make Masons.

This is not simply to raise them, but to foster the growth of every man through knowledge.

So let us discuss, debate (respectfully), and discover that which may allow us all to better ourselves.

Intentional fellowship will continue to be exemplified through our Saturday of Service (1st & 3rd Saturdays); and where fellowship within Waverly prospers with our social gatherings, Stated dinners, and the like; part of that intention is to extend ourselves toward broader brotherhood through intra-lodge relationships and visitations.

Finally, as recent fundraising successes have shown, we can show up and be there for our local community. Outreach and community engagement is done through intentional acts of kindness, and exercising our beloved virtue of charity. Fundraising initiatives, Blood drives, parades and marches; these all present ways to become better engaged in the Appleton and Fox Valley area.

Though we may not get to all of these, I would like to leave the East at the end of this year with this:

That more brethren become excited and proud to be involved.

Where attending Stated meetings is a profound experience.

Where witnessing or taking part in Masonic rites is a sacred act of love toward each and every man we rightly call Brother.

I am immensely proud of being a part of a lodge which is continuously filled with exceptional men, and where each and every Brother has in him the qualities to maintain and extend themselves and the lodge further.