The try was announced in a announcement from the Exalted Master:
M.W. Richard J. Stewart
Exalted Master
October 17, 2011
Darling Brother,
As you may know, at the September Quarterly Communication I tease on a supply of such solid result to our well ahead that I entertain it is right to allotment my notes looked-for with you. The star of my home-made was "The Realize of Freemasonry."
As animated members of this solid connotation, we prize the operate Freemasonry acting in our lives. To inhabit who skill Grandness lies within us, Freemasonry offers an supreme good fortune to build agreeable and spiritual well-being and can extremely make a good man take a breather. We say that we make good men better; actually, we pull good men and allow them the good fortune to become take a breather men.
As custodians of the Masonic bequest of the oldest Exalted Workshop in the Western Hemisphere, we sway a post. In all of our Masonic comings and goings we necessity aim to source, excuse, and build on what we stand for as a connotation. Our example, if you determination.
We exceedingly sway an function to well ahead generations to ensure them that Freemasonry - not withstanding the oodles agreeable, sociable, and meager trials in advance the world in the Twenty-first Century - determination not merely obstruction, but to bud.
I entertain we, as a connotation, are making solid growth. We sway begun to see the fruits of our pains smooth the past several natural life, raising thousands of new Masons. We sway formed nice expertise and training opportunities to version our members for government positions in their Lodges and in Exalted Workshop.
Assess of wherever we would be if we had not embarked on our political leanings collection in 2005 and launched the Ben Franklin view campaign? Your Company of Directors and When Exalted Masters sway at a loss their source minute all of these initiatives. The lucrative patronage has been intense, but sense it.
The proposition of these programs as well inhabit connected with tradition Exalted Workshop and enjoyable its duty is in permit of what we lift in levy, take on, and congenial contributions. For this Masonic year we determination sway a demise of well smooth 3 million. That money has to come from somewhere: it comes from our invested assets.
But, is it fair to all caught up to eliminate in demise eating in the natural life ahead? In selective, is it fair to the next moment in time of Masons? How can we to cut a long story short succession them on the function of Freemasonry if we rely too tediously on the sympathy and piece of earlier period generations to pay our draft bills?
At my decipher, R.W. Mason W. Russell, When Stick by Exalted Master and Exalted Workshop Manager, addressed Exalted Workshop and explained the realities of our lucrative post. To ensure we allotment the phone call as in public as our members determination get to know it, Bro. Russell presented his notes a gleam time on facts. The video can be viewed on MassMasons.org, our new members-only information core. You necessity raid to strategic the site, so satisfy sway your levy card on hand in the function of you determination campaign to undertake your associate identification give out.
I terribly give support to you to exploitation a few minutes study the video and to set up yourself with the issues we are in advance, the ladder we sway active to home-made them, and the solutions we are proposing to move bring up.
As R.W. Bro. Russell explains, we cannot view to incur deficits at the draft haste and level worsening jeopardizing our well ahead. I, as well as our When Exalted Masters, whole-heartedly source the Company of Directors in their hard work to cut eating wherever it can be done, and to develop earnings.
The first period in the wealth was initiated this leap because the Belt-tightening exercise subcommittee of the Company of Directors conducted a line-item review and bargain basement priced eating by patronizing than 100,000 from route year. We determination view to picture eating to designation other pledge reductions.
So that it is in speechifying, a cut above my name and name, I sway summarized the future changes to the Exalted Constitutions:
To develop Exalted Workshop levy from 29 to 60 (Faction 330).
To develop the nominal initiation fee a Workshop heaviness from a hopeful from 50 to 300 (Faction 400).
At the December Quarterly Communication, you can rely on to get to know proposals to change the Exalted Workshop Constitutions to develop our almanac Exalted Workshop levy as well as the list for the degrees. These proposals determination be discussed at the Step Quarterly, and nominated at the June Communication.
We cannot change the Exalted Constitutions on a foible. Nor do we pull playfully the upshot to change the Exalted Assembly. If we did not entertain these dealings were right, we would not point them to you. I taunt you to acquaint yourself with the facts, give your concerns and questions with your Workshop, and imitate well the proposals.
May the Extraordinary Plan of the Construction view to bless you and your backdrop, our dearest Organization, and our solid Ceremony.
Pleasantly & fraternally,
