04/27/2022
A Message from our Worshipful Master, VW. Bro. Graeme McDonald:
Dear Brethren and Friends of Templum Fidelis Lodge,
As you may know, the Grand Master and the Grand Lodge have granted lodges permission to return to business with certain restrictions in place. This of course is subject to every Mason’s individual comfort level and the lodge’s collective will to resume assembly for our Masonic pursuits.
The fact of the matter is that the pandemic continues around us with high infection rates resulting in cases of concern, hospitalizations and deaths in our area in numbers that remain higher than anyone should be comfortable with. However, as was always predicted to be the outcome; political, social and economic tolerance for lockdowns and restrictions have reached their breaking point and every individual, family, business and lodge is now at liberty to set their own path forward according to their own assessment of the cost/benefit of doing so.
Members of Templum Fidelis are planning to meet and discuss returning to lodge later this Spring and how that would look and feel. Our focus is to create the most solemn Masonic experience possible, we are dedicated to offering nothing less than our best which will take some preparation that I know the members will embrace. My expectation, based on previous discussions about reopening, is that the members will likely choose to focus on a September reopening which would have us back for the third Saturday in September in celebration of our Fall Equinox. This meeting is typically the venue for our Maple Leaf Speaker Series where we bring in a prominent Mason (or non-Mason Scholar). Should this plan change, we will endeavour to keep you all updated.
In the meantime, our members will prepare through not only practice of ritual but also in the renovation of our physical space by assisting Maple Leaf Lodge in repairs and improvements to the lodge building. As we improve ourselves through Masonry, we do need to make sure that the physical walls around us remain upright.
Until we meet again.
All the best.
VW. Bro. Graeme McDonald, Worshipful Master
