Brethren,

What a pleasure it has been to be your Worshipful Master for the last two years, I thank you all for this opportunity to serve. It was a challenge that I recommend for all. I always have found that good freemasonry contributes to the success in ones private life when we practice those excellent precepts that are ever inculcated in it.

We have walked through some dark and difficult times over these last few years but as we look forward to the next term and beyond, I sincerely believe that we have the determination and will to not only survive but to flourish.

Finally I would like to congratulate the new officers and wish them all the best in the coming term. I encourage every member to continue to support the incoming team, Confederation Lodge and Freemasonry in general, it is indeed a wonderful Institution of which I am proud to belong.

Fraternally,
Michael Barkley

A word about the Master

This month sees the closing of W. Brother Barkley’s term as Worshipful Master of Confederation Lodge and Id like to take this opportunity to thank him for his dedication and diligence in navigating Confederation lodge through some difficult times.  In spite of having a very busy life himself with his profession and his young family, our Worshipful Master never failed to attend
our meetings and bring with him a message of friendship and support.

Thank you Worshipful Master, from all the brethren of Confederation Lodge.

February marks the first tyled meeting for Confederation Lodge since its change of by-laws. This month we celebrate the official visit of our most esteemed member and District Deputy Grand Master, R.W.Bro. Murray Kirk. Please come out and attend this opportunity as we showcase our lodge to the district.

As we transition from our this new format we continue to enjoy interest from people outside the Fraternity looking for more information about our lodge.

In April we hope to deliver a wonderful debate evening at the Ward Room similar to events we have held in the past.

Brethren, we as a lodge are only as good as the those who attend and give a part of yourself to the good of the Fraternity and your friends.  May everyone enjoy the light of Freemasonry.

Confederation Lodge though will be very busy in 2009 as the lodge will continue to do what we do best and that is present good events and recite great ritual.

Please do your part by contributing in some way to this journey. If you have an idea what the lodge should be doing and how to entertain our brethren at large we look forward to your input.

Have a Merry Christmas and come to our multiple lodge Christmas Dinner. See you in the New Year.

I entered this fraternity with unconditional faith. The faith that I would receive no harm in my initiation. The faith that I was going from being a good man to a better man. The faith that the lodge would provide me with the means to fulfill my obligations. I must say that the fraternity has maintained that objective.

This summer during our time of darkness the lodge has not sat by idling ready to receive what is appearing top be its perceived fate. No the active members of the lodge have congregated at a members back yard and continued to promote freemasonry as it should in this new millennium. Ideas were shared and debated all with one purpose. To direct the lodge in a path that is able to combat the plagues of freemasonry.

The active past masters of the lodge received this information and have achieved reasonable options. Options are necessary as we in the lodge must make a big decision this month as we have a notice of motion on the floor that needs to be dealt with. The time has passed for rhetorical debates and great ideas. The time now is for action! Action is what the lodge will receive.

Confederation Lodge, the small lodge that could, is again; going to thrill the audience of other Freemasons with being innovative. Just as advertisers must constantly change how it delivers the message of their product, we, at Confederation will change how we deliver our freemasonry.