“…IGLPI claims that VW Rolly is in their roster and listed as No. 1. GL has to act on this and decide who really has the right to give the NECRO services to avoid embarrassment..” --- GLP member
We have anticipated this situation. The guidance is that we are duly made Master Masons in a duly constituted Lodge and we are BROTHERS forever regardless of Lodge or Grand Lodge affiliation. We anticipate many groups to render their respective honors to the dead. All the acts of our planners WM Ador Ramos of Mendez Nunez Lodge Nr 8 and our Grand Supervisor VW Ed Bayot are to be cleared with the family and with RW Roxy Sarmiento, Grand Auditor IGLPI. We honor the wishes of the family as our basis of action.
The participation of VW Rolly Sarmiento in the planning and formation of IGLPI are known to us. As I said, he is number 1 in the Roster of Members of the Lodge Nr 8.
The PGM YU and GLP Edicts 232s have rendered its verdict in spite of its injustice and Masonic doctrinal anomaly. Its implications and latent consequences are surfacing.
Masonic traditions and teachings states that it is 3 or more Lodges which form Grand Lodges, NOT an assembly of brothers at Kawit. The Lodge, with its members, temples, properties, funds TRANSFER to a new Grand Lodge, unless the member DEMITS, is suspended, expelled or delisted by the Lodge. The OLD Lodge DIE.
But PGM YU, in his act to impede our compliance to a Standard of Recognition of sovereign and full control over our Lodges RESURRECTED the dead Lodges. I have issued Edict Nr 2 declaring them as "NON-LODGES" or phantom lodges. They have NO more Charter to warrant their existence. I have also issued Memorandums to purge the List of Members and to DELIST those active in the non-lodges."Mendez Nunez Lodge Nr 316" is one of those non-lodges.
The body of VW Rolly will lie at the Mendez Nunez Lodge Nr 8 Temple. Let BROTHERLY LOVE prevail. We will meet on the LEVEL and part by the SQUARE. We UNITE in the outpouring of our love and affection to a BROTHER and a MASON. The occasion will manifest the HARMONY of Cavite Masons.
We have anticipated this situation. The guidance is that we are duly made Master Masons in a duly constituted Lodge and we are BROTHERS forever regardless of Lodge or Grand Lodge affiliation. We anticipate many groups to render their respective honors to the dead. All the acts of our planners WM Ador Ramos of Mendez Nunez Lodge Nr 8 and our Grand Supervisor VW Ed Bayot are to be cleared with the family and with RW Roxy Sarmiento, Grand Auditor IGLPI. We honor the wishes of the family as our basis of action.
The participation of VW Rolly Sarmiento in the planning and formation of IGLPI are known to us. As I said, he is number 1 in the Roster of Members of the Lodge Nr 8.
The PGM YU and GLP Edicts 232s have rendered its verdict in spite of its injustice and Masonic doctrinal anomaly. Its implications and latent consequences are surfacing.
Masonic traditions and teachings states that it is 3 or more Lodges which form Grand Lodges, NOT an assembly of brothers at Kawit. The Lodge, with its members, temples, properties, funds TRANSFER to a new Grand Lodge, unless the member DEMITS, is suspended, expelled or delisted by the Lodge. The OLD Lodge DIE.
But PGM YU, in his act to impede our compliance to a Standard of Recognition of sovereign and full control over our Lodges RESURRECTED the dead Lodges. I have issued Edict Nr 2 declaring them as "NON-LODGES" or phantom lodges. They have NO more Charter to warrant their existence. I have also issued Memorandums to purge the List of Members and to DELIST those active in the non-lodges."Mendez Nunez Lodge Nr 316" is one of those non-lodges.
The body of VW Rolly will lie at the Mendez Nunez Lodge Nr 8 Temple. Let BROTHERLY LOVE prevail. We will meet on the LEVEL and part by the SQUARE. We UNITE in the outpouring of our love and affection to a BROTHER and a MASON. The occasion will manifest the HARMONY of Cavite Masons.
Bro Jim Bantolo
26June2007
2 comments:
GLP do not have an authority to "decide who really has the right to give the NECRO services..." If I may suggest to tone down the seemingly political statement as in "... to avoid embarassment..." and respect the wishes of our departed Brother and his family. This is not a time or place to demand recognition of who is right and who is wrong. This is not a time nor place to highlight erosion of self confidence and escaping grains of sands. This is a time and place to remember our departed Brother and wish him well as he completed his earthly journey. May he present his apron spotless to the Supreme Grand Master and receive his welcoming words--"Well Done, thou good and faithfull servant, enter thou into the joy of the Lord."
There is no doubt that the state of Freemasonry in the Philippines under the cosmic point of view is entirely abnormal. It is said that our masonic jurisdictions agree fundamentally in their aims but there naturally exist a distantness of wills and intentions which induce occassional distrust and diffidence, lack of goodwill that sometimes impending to repugnance among brethrens belonging to same ideals, obstructing the law of unity and cohesion that must preside at the destiny of such a sacred and universally altruistic institution as Freemasonry.
However, a SOTTO VOCE is heard waking up a movement that breaks the bestial points of our Triangualr Temples, tending to unify our wills under the nexus of a common brotherhood. If this sublime intention should turn into a body of reality, the present generations of Filipino Masons shall be writin the most shining pages of Masonic history in the Far East.
Reggie Estialbo
Logia Bonifacio # 2
Gran Logia Nacional de Filipinas
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