My Brothers...What a month July turned out to be!!! The Broth-ers from Phoenix Lodge had the high honor to wel-come R:.W:. Al Dahlberg to our Lodge during his official visit as the newly appointed District Deputy Grand Master of the 27 Masonic District. The visit was a great success and I believe that we set the standard for the hospitality and warmth in welcom-ing a man of such great reputation and respect.R:.W:. Dahlberg had the pleasure to award Bro

Harold Robert Paul with his 65 year pin. It was a beautiful ceremony witnessed by Bro Paul’s family. Our congratulations and most heartfelt best wishes to the Paul family.I want to congratulate Brothers Roland Yates and Hector Morales in the successful give-back of their Master Mason Catechism. The Brothers did an amazing job and I am very proud to note that their instructor was Brother Bill Franklin, one of our newest Master Mason. Brother Franklin enthusi-astically volunteered to teach this Brothers after earning his Master Mason Apron two months earlier. This is great example of the quality of Brothers that call Phoenix Lodge their Masonic home.We will be awarding two young outstanding people with the Educational Assistance Award of $250, each. They are Zachery Stelmashenko (son of Bro. Taras Stelmashenko) and Allison Wright (daughter of an employee of Bro. Johnson Savary). We are very proud to present these two very deserving students with this award and hope that it helps them realize their education goals.We look forward to having all of you and your families at our ice cream social on the 20th of August and our spaghetti dinner September 24th. Let’s make these events a success and please, bring your families.

A reminder that the Grand Master’s visit will be on the 14th of October. We will have a couple of practices prior to the visit to make sure that we look and feel sharp.

I want to thank Phoenix Lodge for all their hard work and dedication. I am so proud to serve you as your Lodge Master and look forward to the next months as we endeavor to make our Lodge and our community better.Your Worshipful Master

Juan Sanchez, Worshipful Master“One Team, One Brotherhood, One Cause”

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My Brothers,Your lodge has been active in awarding funds to needy students, participating in local masonic events (such as Bradenton Marauders Masonic Night) and we will be the host lodge for the Grand Master’s visit on Friday, October 14th. This last event is due to our own Past Master Al Dahlberg being appoint-ed as the District 27 DDGM. Everyone should attend the free (as in at no cost - just tell us you are

coming and if bringing a wife, son or prospective brother-whomever) dinner at Sahib Shrine Center. Immediately after that we really need every Phoenix Brother to be in Lodge for the meeting with the Grand Master of Masons. You have to eat dinner Friday night anyway so have it on us at Sahib then attend the meeting with your Grand Master!Your Senior Warden

Br. Mark Brewer

My Brothers,Always be aware of how your words and actions are taken by others. Case in point, I called a customer in the morning to let him know when I would be there. He got very grumpy with me telling me that I had “better hurry up”. The way he treated me didn’t make me want tohurry up, but I did and got to the appointment earlier

than expected. Upon arrival, I noticedthe new Masonic license plate on his vehicle. I asked him how long had he been a Mason, and he replied 20 years. I asked when was the last time he had been to lodge and he couldn’t remem-ber. I then told him that I was JW at my lodge. After he found out that I was a brother Mason he treated me differently, but why should that matter - shouldn’t we give everyone the same respect?Fraternally,Your Junior Warden,

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What, then, is the meaning of this old phrase, so interwoven with all our Masonic lore, simple, tender, haunting? It has two meanings for us eve-rywhere, in the Church, or in the Lodge. First, it is assent of man to the way and Will Of God; assent to His Commands; assent to His Providence, even when a tender, terrible stroke of death takes from us one much loved and leaves us forlorn.

Still, somehow, we must say:” So it is; so be it. He is a wise man, a brave man; who, baffled by the woes of life, when disaster follows fast and follows faster, can nevertheless accept his lot as a part of the Will of God and say, though it may almost choke him to say it:

“So Mote It Be.” It is not blind submission, nor dumb resignation, but a wise reconciliation to the Will of the Eternal.

The other meaning of the phrase is even more wonderful; it is the assent of God to the aspira-tion of man. Man can bear so much - anything, perhaps - if he feels that God knows, cares and feels for him and with him. If God says Amen, So it is, to our faith and hope and love; it links our perplexed meanings, and helps us to see, however dimly, or in a glass darkly, that there is a wise and good purpose in life, despite its sorrow and suffer-ing, and that we are not at the mercy of Fate or the whim of Chance.

Does God speak to man, confirming his faith and hope? If so, how? Indeed yes! God is not the great I Was, but the great I Am, and He is neither deaf nor dumb. In Him we live and move and have our being - He Speaks to us in nature, in the moral

law, and in our own hearts, if we have ears to hear. But He speaks most clearly in the Book of Holy Law which lies open upon our Alter.

Nor is that all. Some of us hold that the Word Of God “Became Flesh and Dwelt Among Us, Full Of Grace and Truth,” in a life the loveliest ever lived among men, showing us what life is, what it means, and to what fine issues it ascends when we do the Will of God on earth as it is done in Heaven, No one of us but grows wistful when he thinks of the life of Jesus, however far we fall below it.

Today men are asking the question: Does it do any good to pray? The man who actually prays does not ask such a question. As well ask if it does a bird any good to sing, or a flower to bloom? Prayer is natural and instinctive in man. We are made so. Man is made for prayer, as sparks ascending seek the sun. He would not need religious faith if the objects of it did not exist.

Are prayers ever answered? Yes, always, as Emer-son taught us long ago. Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered - and that is as far as we need to go. The deepest desire, the ruling motive of a man, is his actual prayer, and it shapes his life after its form and color. In this sense all prayer is answered, and that is why we ought to be careful what we pray for - because in the end we always get it.

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If you know of illness or distress of any of our brothers or their families PLEASE call me at 941 320- 8291 or e-mail me at revdore@gmail.com. I am here to serve the Brothers and families of Phoenix 346 in good “mes and bad so please keep me informed. Remember, your life is not given to you, you make it with every thought you think, every word you speakand every choice or ac”on that you take OR fail to take. As The Great Light tells us: As a Man Thinks, so he is. It is done unto you, As you beleive.

Reminder!This issue of the Trestleboard is being issued in electronic form, printed copies will available on an on-demand basis.

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