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To My Findlay Brethren,
As the 2024 Masonic year draws to a close, I believe I can report to you that our Lodge is healthy and strong. Please know that this could not happen without you, and I hope that as we enter another Masonic year that you will continue the fine work and that you will support your new Master and Line Officers just as you have supported me. Thank you for your steady perseverance, for your care of the Craft and for tending the flame that “Keeps the Masonic Light Shining.” The honor and privilege of serving as your Worshipful Master is something I will cherish for a lifetime. But more than anything what I really cherish is your Brotherly love and warm fellowship. I am very proud and honored to have served as your Master, and if I can every be of service, please do not hesitate to call. Forever Fraternally Yours, W.B Albert Leonard Centonze
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Brethren,
As we are about halfway through the year, I would just like to again thank My officers and Brothers for all your support and assistance. I cannot express strongly enough how important you all are to me. For me there are four important values that help define our Masonic path through life: Integrity, Friendship, Respect and Service. In today’s world filled with uncertainty, these principles ring as true now as they have at any point in the organization’s history. Seeing these principals in our Lodge and fraternity brings a great deal of joy to my heart. Let us all continue to do our best be the example for each other, and those we interact with in our daily life. Fraternally Yours, W.B. Albert Leonard (you can call me Al) Centonze Greetings to you all,
I hope you had a wonderful Holiday with your families. We now begin a new year and I wish you all, and your families, health, happiness and many good things. As the first quarter of 2024 comes to a close, I would like to thank all the Officers and Brothers for your help, support, and patience as I settle into my role as Worshipful Master of Findlay lodge and expect us to have an excellent year moving forward. I would also like to encourage any Brothers who have not been able to attend meetings, for any reason, to come and join us. Please know you are missed. All that being said, let’s have a great new year of Brotherhood, Fellowship and Family. Fraternally Yours, W.B. Albert Leonard Centonze Greetings to all,
First I would like to congratulate Worshipful Brother Drew Charles DeVore on a fine year as Master in which we saw many excellent opportunities for fraternal and familial bonding fulfilled. Following his example, it is my hope that we can do as well or better in the coming year. I would also like to thank you for electing me to serve Findlay Lodge as its Master for 2023-24. It is truly an honor and a highlight of my Masonic journey. I pray that I will be able to meet and exceed your expectations as a leader. I will be drawing on the lessons learned during the past 2 years here at Findlay Lodge and from my year as Master of Corinthian Lodge #8 TN F.& A.M. I will do my best to apply the wise counsel given to me by those who have traveled the same path before me, and I have great confidence in the fine line of Officers we have just installed to keep the Lodge moving forward. Moving forward I would like us all to note that, as geometry starts with a point and that point expands to a line and so forth, we need a point to focus on. One point I would like us to focus on for the coming year is simply this, for us as a lodge to continue to provide an environment in which good men can become better men. This is not just for the new brother who is beginning his journey, but for every member of the Lodge. Executive training classes teach us that for a person to improve, they must evaluate their current status, decide on a plan for change, implement the change and re-evaluate to see if that change made a positive difference and then repeat as needed. I challenge each of you in the coming year to evaluate your progress on becoming a better Man and Mason, and if improvement is desired, create a plan for change. If the Lodge is not providing you with the environment you need to implement your change, ask an Officer to see if we can help to modify the environment. The environment includes but is not limited to; Lodge meeting, gathers, clubs, and groups, as well as the programs and the knowledge of the Brothers providing guidance. In closing, may the Great Architect of the Universe, who has so inspired the ancient members of our Craft that in the bond of brotherhood they met each other’s needs and first of all men came together in the hidden mysteries handed down to us, give us, we beseech Thee, grateful hearts, that in joyful service we may bring relief to the unfortunate, and in perfect loyalty both preserve our trust and leave behind us an increased inheritance. Fraternally Yours, W.B. Albert Leonard Centonze |
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