This month of June marks the Fifteen (15) years of existence of Jacques DeMolay Memorial Lodge No. 305.
Jacques DeMolay Memorial Lodge No. 305: Celebrating 15 Years of Making Good Men Better!
HAPPY 15th ANNIVERSARY BRETHREN
SUMMON FROM THE WORSHIPFUL MASTER
BRETHREN OF JACQUES DeMOLAY MEMORIAL LODGE No. 305 F.& A.M.
If within the length of your Cabletow, you are hereby summoned to attend our Stated Meeting for this month, June 27, 2008, 7:00 PM at Eugene Stafford Hall, Scottish Rite Temple.
This Stated Meeting is marked by the commemoration of our 15th Anniversary and will be graced by an Official Visitation of the Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Philippines, Most Worshipful Pacifico B. Aniag.
After our stated communication, a fraternal banquet for the celebration of our 15th Anniversary and in honor of our Past Masters, will follow.
BRETHREN, FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER, PLEASE MAKE YOURSELVES AVAILABLE AND BE PART OF THIS IMPORTANT MEETING AND FELLOWSHIP OF YOUR LODGE. HOPING TO SEE YOU THERE, ON TIME.
W.Bro. JONATHAN DENVER C. CUEZON Worshipful Master
Check out the Agenda for the Stated Meeting at the Activity Calendar
GM Aniag's Independence Day Speech
MASONRY IS A WAY OF LIFE
MW PACIFICO B. ANIAG Grand Master
(Delivered during the Grand Lodge of the Philippines Independence Day Program) June 12, 2008
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From accounts of several Filipino historians, we learn that it was on June 5, 1898 when Bro. Emilio Aguinaldo issued a decree setting aside June 12 as the day for the proclamation of Philippine Independence. At the same time, he commissioned Julian Felipe to prepare a composition which would be adopted as the official march of the Philippines during the independence ceremonies in Kawit, Cavite. On June 12, 1898 the Marcha Nacional Filipina was played for the first time. Doing the honors was the band of San Francisco de Malabon.
For more than a year, that anthem, or march, remained without words. Towards the end of August 1899, a young poet-soldier from Bayambang, Pangasinan, named Jose Palma (younger brother of MW Rafael Palma, PGM) wrote a Spanish poem entitled Filipinas. This poem expressed in elegant verses the ardent patriotism and fighting spirit of the Filipino people. It was unanimously acclaimed as the fitting lyrics for that Marcha Nacional Filipina.
In the 1920s, it became necessary to translate those Spanish lyrics to English and the American colonial government commissioned a Filipino writer, Camilo Osias (who would eventually become Grand Master of Masons), and an American, A.L. Lane to do the translation. There are still some of us here who belong to that generation of Filipinos who thus grew up singing the National Anthem in English.
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MASONRY IS A WAY OF LIFE