CLewey44
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The four Cardinal Virtues: Temperance, Prudence, Justice and Fortitude are important in our Masonic lives. However, there is a fifth Virtue that we really start learning from the moment we decide to email/contact a lodge or GL indicating our interest in joining Freemasonry and that is patience. I have been in this fraternity for about five years now and one thing it has taught me is patience, especially within the scope of the Craft but also in general.
I'm sure you could 'shoehorn' patience into any of the other four Virtues and that would be completely fine but can any of you recall some examples of patience whether within BL or another Masonic organization such as AASR, YR or otherwise? Examples could be transferring lodges or GLs, anxiously waiting to be invited to one of the many invitational groups or maybe even some "horror-stories" trying to get your degrees in BL or just to get voted on. Anything really.
What did you learn from these experiences, if anything? Can we improve on these seemingly poor short-comings? Look forward to hearing your responses.
I'm sure you could 'shoehorn' patience into any of the other four Virtues and that would be completely fine but can any of you recall some examples of patience whether within BL or another Masonic organization such as AASR, YR or otherwise? Examples could be transferring lodges or GLs, anxiously waiting to be invited to one of the many invitational groups or maybe even some "horror-stories" trying to get your degrees in BL or just to get voted on. Anything really.
What did you learn from these experiences, if anything? Can we improve on these seemingly poor short-comings? Look forward to hearing your responses.