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Post by staffs on May 23, 2005 8:21:02 GMT
I found this suggested toast on a Australian Masonic Forum.
I dont think however i would be brave enough to use this one though.
Bro. Toastmaster, District Deputy Grand Master and Brethren. Grand Lodge provides information, gives guidance when sought, admonishes and encourages the lodge when needed. Yet in perfect symmetry, it is often emphasized that Grand Lodge is not They, it is We. Grand Lodge is the lodges. We are the lodges. We are Grand Lodge. Brethren, please be upstanding for a toast. To Grand Lodge
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Post by taylorsman on May 23, 2005 8:26:57 GMT
Lee, save that one till you have been 6 years out of the Chair then adapt it when you propose the Toast to Province at the Installation FB before you are due to be considered for Honours. Can't say it's to my personal taste, but obviously someone has given it.
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Post by darrylcoffey100145 on Jan 27, 2011 12:35:42 GMT
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Post by offramp on Mar 6, 2020 11:29:32 GMT
I really enjoy almost every aspect of Festive Boards. What ruins the whole experience for me is the constant yo-yoing when the toasts start.
A load of meaningless toasts for people who aren't there and don't care. What on earth is the point?
Here is the Toast List for Surrey Province for April 2020 onwards:It comes to roughly 9 toasts, including 5 toasts for 13 people who almost certainly won't be present. Surely anyone can see that that is way too much: all that meaningless standing up and sitting down: it ruins the whole evening.
My suggestion is that that there should be a toast for the queen and the craft, then one for all Grand Officers past and present, then the Worshipful Master. These three should all be done at once, ie you stand once and sit down once.
Then the toast to the visitors followed by the Tyler's Toast and that's that. That makes three times one has to stand up and twice one has to sit down. Much more reasonable.
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Post by peter2 on Mar 8, 2020 2:49:42 GMT
It seems that you do not have the respect that Grand Lodge thinks is due - but perhaps that is proper when the GL is an innovation on Masonry.
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Post by boreades on Feb 28, 2021 13:14:03 GMT
My little provincial lodge had a great devotion to the Festive Board, and the provincial hierarchy, honours and associated medals. With many toasts and empty bottles afterwards.
It did (for a while) have Lodges of Instruction, but these slid into Lodges of Rehearsal, and the instruction part became a rare and short interruption. With little sign of any interest in the hidden mysteries of nature and science.
Perhaps the Narrow Path (in this neighbourhood) has become overgrown with weeds and litter?
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