The Worshipful Master's Message, March 2010
 

My Brother,

This month is the Master Mason Degree for Burlington Lodge.  The lessons and morals taught in this degree are wonderful and at the very heart of what we do and teach as Free Masons.  As with each class of initiates we hope these newly raised brothers will hold their new Masonic knowledge in high esteem.  We hope that they will help shine the light of Masonry out into the world.  This light, this helping hand is what drew me to this fraternity.  The ideal that we are here to help our brothers and fellow masons and the people of the world is a noble ideal.  An ideal that is worth working on as Masons, let us do the work we were meant to do.   

       Masonry does the work it was meant to do. The Mason does not sigh, weep, or grimace. He lives right on. If his life is marked with errors & sins, he ploughs over the barren spots with his remorse, sows it with new seed, & the old desert blossoms again. He accepts what his mind regards as true, his conscience decides is right, & his heart deems generous & noble; all else he puts far from him.

-- Albert Pike

Fraternally,      
David A. Steinmetz
Worshipful Master