Point Pleasant, NJ

Durand Lodge #179 F. & A.M.

Home of the Williams Balcony

The hazy, lazy days of summer days are almost here. Half of the masonic year have passed. For the most part, it has been and interesting and good half-year. During the year we experience bi-weekly regular communications, ritual work, traveling in and outside our district, we enjoy many collective activities with brothers from the district and outside of our district. We enjoy gatherings with families and friends. We also attend emergent GL Communications for the unique experience and to feel and be part of a new GL Line of Officers. We enjoy each and every one of these experiences with the assurance of a job well done along with great fellowship. It is a long rewarding journey.

My brothers, we have to make memories that last a lifetime in good fellowship, harmony observing the tenets of our institution which are friendship, morality and brotherly love.

The day will come when we will look into a tired mind at those memories and smile with satisfaction for a life well lived as a citizen of this great country, as husbands, as fathers, as brothers and as Masons. We will remember those brothers and thank them for all the good memories, our Fraternity, our loved ones, and we thank God all mighty for all the positive and negative things that took place in our lives to enjoy and share with all man kind especially a Brother Mason and for what we've learned from the negative things.

All the the credit goes to the GAOTU.

Fraternally,
W.M. Miguel Arroyo-Colon