Re: Traditional observance lodges are they good fo
"Each lodge should adopt some kind of a dress code. If a man can't be bothered to wash his face and put on a clean pair of pants before walking through the door of a Masonic Temple he doesn't need to be there. If you don't care whether a man looks uncaring and unkempt when he walks through the door of your temple, YOU don't need to be there. We need to grow up and discover the joys of gentlemanly behavior. Not northern snooty phony gentlemanliness, but a genuine southern genteel gentlemanliness. If we cannot bother to put on a coat and tie at least when initiating, passing and raising a candidate, just how important an event will it strike that new man?" -Laudable Pursuit: A 21st Century Response to Dwight Smith
I think this says it pretty well. It's NOT about the clothes, brethren. It's the attitude involved. Here's something to contemplate that an old brother told me once about dressing nicely: "If you knew Brother George Washington was to visit your lodge this evening, how would you dress?" Of course, I said, "in the best I have." He then said, "then why is it brethren don't seem compelled to give even greater care to how you dress for the GAOTU...He's present at EVERY meeting and far more important than any man that has ever walked the earth." ...hard to argue with that logic.
"Each lodge should adopt some kind of a dress code. If a man can't be bothered to wash his face and put on a clean pair of pants before walking through the door of a Masonic Temple he doesn't need to be there. If you don't care whether a man looks uncaring and unkempt when he walks through the door of your temple, YOU don't need to be there. We need to grow up and discover the joys of gentlemanly behavior. Not northern snooty phony gentlemanliness, but a genuine southern genteel gentlemanliness. If we cannot bother to put on a coat and tie at least when initiating, passing and raising a candidate, just how important an event will it strike that new man?" -Laudable Pursuit: A 21st Century Response to Dwight Smith
I think this says it pretty well. It's NOT about the clothes, brethren. It's the attitude involved. Here's something to contemplate that an old brother told me once about dressing nicely: "If you knew Brother George Washington was to visit your lodge this evening, how would you dress?" Of course, I said, "in the best I have." He then said, "then why is it brethren don't seem compelled to give even greater care to how you dress for the GAOTU...He's present at EVERY meeting and far more important than any man that has ever walked the earth." ...hard to argue with that logic.
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