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|  Greetings My Brothers! The dog days of summer are upon us. It seems like we have had a running heat index over 100 degrees for the past 10 days. We need to be careful when doing outdoor maintenance and keep watch on our elderly. Brother Mel Oyler received his 40 year service pin in lodge this month. It was my privilege to present this to so fine a brother and mason as Mel. We are planing to have a Master Mason degree coming up on the first part of September. Bro. John Miles will be in the East for both sections. We will need help on this brothers. Please follow our e-mail alerts for exact time and dates and do your best to help assist our F.C.'s through their third degree ceremony. Bro. Francois is planning some very interesting changes in the lights, music and sound effects.  Our paper recycle bin has been placed. Drop off your old newspapers, magazines, etc. Our zone also accepts cardboard & old phone books (regardless of what the notice on the box reads). Encourage your neighbors to use our recycling bin and the lodge will make a little money on the tonnage that is collected. BIG THANKS to Bro. Jim Guest, who rented a trailer and got the lawn mower to the service shop. It is back and running in top form. I saw that the grass has already been cut this week. Hopefully we can now give Wos. Dick Byle a break after so long taking care of the yard. I will leave you with the following:  Two experienced Master Masons were enjoying a flight in a hot air balloon when suddenly a thick cloud formed between them and the ground. Being without instruments, after half an hour they realized that they were well and truly lost. A short time later they came across a large hole in the cloud and espied a gentleman below walking his dog across a field. They had time to exchange pleasantries and found that he too was a member of the Craft. The chaps in the balloon enquired of him as to their location and received the reply, "About 200 feet up in a balloon." Just then the cloud closed the hole and they were alone again. One turned to the other and said, " I bet he's the Secretary of his Lodge!" "Why do you say that?", the other asked. "Well what he has told us is absolutely true - but in our present predicament is totally useless!"  Stay in touch Brothers...stop by for a meeting or send us a note / e mail. Check our on-line calendar for upcoming events. Best Regards,  |
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| Brothers,
The time has come to make a donation to the Second Harvest Food Bank. I have decided that I would like to make the donation on the 11th of August , So you have one more stated meeting to bring your cans of food to donate.
 It can be anything in a can, soup, broth, fruit, and those veggies that your wife makes that you don't like, beans, evaporated milk, tuna, and pasta in cans for the kiddies and those are only a few to name.
Donations will also be accepted, remember that for every $1.00 donated it can provide up to $9.00 worth of food to needy people.
I really appreciate any donations you can make either of cans or of dollars, all donations will be made in the name of Pine Castle Lodge #368 F&AM.
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One of the four cardinal virtues; the practice of which is inculcated in the First Degree. The Freemason who properly appreciates the secrets which he has solemnly promised never to reveal, will not, by yielding to the unrestrained call of appetite, permit reason and judgment to lose their seats and subject himself, by the indulgence in habits of excess, to discover that which should be concealed, and thus merit and receive the scorn and detestation of his Brethren. And lest any Brother should forget the danger to which he is exposed in the unguarded hours of dissipation, the virtue of temperance is wisely impressed upon is memory, lay its reference to one of the most solemn portions of the ceremony of initiation. Some Freemasons, very properly condemning the vice of intemperance and abhorring its effects, have been unwisely led to confound temperance with total abstinence in a Masonic application, and resolutions have sometimes been proposed in Grand Lodges which declare the use of stimulating liquors in any quantity a Masonic offense. Put the law of Freemasonry authorizes no such regulation. It leaves to every man the indulgence of his own tastes within due limits, and demands not abstinence, but only moderation and temperance, in anything not actually wrong.
- Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
   An implement of Operative Masonry, which has been adopted by Speculative Freemasons as the peculiar working-tool of the Master's Degree. By this implement, and its use in Operative Masonry to spread the cement which binds all the parts of the building into one common mass, we are taught to spread the cement of affection and kindness, which unites all the members of the Masonic family, wheresoever dispersed over the globe, into one companionship of Brotherly Love and an old custom in an Oxford Lodge, England, gave it prominence as a jewel, and as a symbol it goes back to the practice of the Ancient. Today this implement is considered the appropriate working-tool of a Master Mason, because, in Operative Masonry, while the Apprentice is engaged in preparing the rude materials, which require only the Gage and Gavel to give them their proper shape. the Fellow Craft places them in their proper position by means of the Plumb, Level, and Square; but the Master Mason alone, having examined their correctness and proved them true and trusty, secures them permanently in their place by spreading, with the trowel, the cement that irrevocably binds them together. The Trowel has also been adopted as the jewel of the Select Master. But its uses in this Degree are not symbolical. They are simply connected with the historical legend of the Degree. - Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry |
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|  August 1st - Rainbow Assembly 6 Meeting 2pm
August 4th - Stated Communication 7:30pm, Dinner @6:30pm
August 7th - Masters & Wardens @ Orange #36, 8am
August 11th - 1st Food Drive Donation to Second Harvest Food Bank
August 11th - School of Instruction @ Orange #36, 7:30pm
August 14th - Open Books @ Winter Park #239, 9am - 3pm
August 15th - Rainbow Assembly 6 Meeting 2pm
August 18th - Stated Communication 7:30pm, Dinner @6:30pm
August 25th - School of Instruction @ Orange #36, 7:30pm
August 28th - Family Breakfast 8am until 10am
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