Category: Brotherly Love
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As an editor, I try not to run consecutive articles by the same author on the blog. However, something that happened to the District Education Officers (DEOs) and Area Education Officers (AEOs) of the Grand Lodge of Illinois this past Saturday at the District Deputy Grand Master…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As I write this, the Delta variant of Covid-19 is sweeping the nation. While there is no evidence that the Delta variant makes people more severely sick, it is around twice as contagious as the original SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) virus.[1] According to research from Johns Hopkins University, the average number of daily…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin Lahners “Good times gone, and you missed them What’s gone wrong in your system? Things they bounce like a Spaulding What’d you think, did you miss your calling? It’s so free, this kind of feeling It’s like life, it’s so appealing When you’ve got so much to say it’s…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin Lahners There is a line in Illinois ritual when opening on the First Degree, where the Senior Warden while giving his duty says: “Harmony being the strength and support of all institutions, especially ours.” This year has challenged Harmony in several areas. Grandmasters were tasked with the difficult decision…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor Darin A. Lahners I watched “Won’t you be my neighbor?” this evening. For those of you that live under a rock, it’s a documentary about Fred McFeely Rogers, known to many of us as Mr. Rogers. Contrary to the erroneous balderdash that you can find on the internet that he was…