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MAÇONARIA : - O Grande Oriente do Brasil comemorou o seu 195.º aniversário. Uma data muito bela e marcante, para uma Obediência que está muito perto das 3.800 Lojas e com mais de 96 mil membros. A data oficial deste acontecimento ocorreu no dia 17 de junho de 2017. Artigo relacionado: Soberano Grande Primaz do Rito Brasileiro na República do Paraguai O Grande Oriente do Brasil acompanhou também a história do Brasil. Homens que ao longo do tempo ajudaram a construir uma País mais justo, mais fraterno, mais livre. Mas o presente reivindica novas lutas, com esperança e a favor do Brasil e da Humanidade. As maiores felicidades para todos, Irmãos. O Muito Resp.'. Irmão Eduardo Lecey fez chegar umas imagens que nos ajudam a perceber melhor estas festividades. Correspondem também à preparação do Ágape (jantar) da gala da noite do dia 17 de junho de 2017. Agradecimentos especiais para as imagens que foram recolhidas pelos Eminentes Irmãos Evandro Lecey e Márcio Barcelos. Agradecimentos especiais ao Irmão e Representante do MY Fraternity, Eduardo Lecey a quem também agradecemos o amor pela Arte Real, pelo valor da informação, da partilha e por toas as boas razões. Informações relacionadas: Mensagem de Porto Alegre, Brasil MAÇONARIA: - Maçon Eduardo Lecey apresenta palestra sobre o RITO BRASILEIRO

Hanôver está a preparar uma cerimónia maçónica para comemorar os 300 anos da Maçonaria Moderna. Este encontro deverá contar com a presença do ex-Presidente do Estado Alemão, Drº Jürgen Gansäuer (CDU) e que deverá promover uma palestra. Em Hanôver existem doze Lojas com menos de 500 membros.

O site de genealogia Ancestry.co.uk apresenta os nomes de mais de dois milhões de membros maçónicos, entre 1733 e 1923. Nesta lista podemos constatar reis, pessoal militar e cientistas. Preservar as memórias maçónicas está dependente de uma boa organização. De acordo com os relatórios publicados, a lista também apresenta o nome do Irmão que supervisionou o naufrágio do famoso navio Titanic. O RMS Titanic foi um navio de passageiros britânico operado pela White Star Line e construído pelos estaleiros da Harland and Wolff em Belfast. Dizem os cientistas que está em fase de se perder no fundo do mar. De acordo com o Daily Telegraph, os nomes de pelo menos dois dos cinco avaliadores especializados do inquérito - o especialista em arquitetura naval John Harvard Biles e o avaliador sénior Edward Chaston - também podem ser encontrados no arquivo maçónico.

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Hoje decorreu um encontro com várias Obediências maçónicas com o Vice-Presidente da Comissão Europeia Frans Timmermans. O tema deste ano foi o seguinte: " O Futuro da Europa: uma União eficaz e baseada em valores". Estes são alguns dos participantes convidados pela Comissão Europeia: Marie-Thérèse BESSON, Grão-Mestra da Grande Loja Feminina de França. Martine CERF, Secretário Geral da (EGALE) Claudette Clavel, Vice-Grão-Mestre da Ordem Internacional "O Direito Humano" Andrezj DOMINICZAK, presidente da Associação dos Humanista Polacos Giulio Ercolessi, Presidente da Federação Humanista Europeia Philippe FOUSSIER, Primeiro Vice-Grão-Mestre do Grande Oriente de França Manuel LÓPEZ Álvarez, Lone MILKAER Ree, Keith PORTEOUS Wood, Jean-Michel Reynaud, Claude Wachtelaer, Oscar WANDEL e Frieder Otto WOLF.

Em 2017 há um conjunto de informações que se repetem e que vão ao encontro dos 300 anos da Maçonaria Moderna. Esta é mais uma que chegou de Inglaterra. Artigo Relacionado: Maçons comemoram os 300 anos da Maçonaria Especulativa Uma noite de convívio musical da família maçónica da Loja de "Hawkshead", tendo conseguido angariar 350 libras para se adquirirem equipamentos para um novo centro de saúde desta vila. Artigos Relacionados: Grande Festa nos jardins do Grande Oriente de Itália | 24.06.2017 | Itália 1717 – Formation and Foundation: John Hamill on 300 years of Freemasonry

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LUTO EM PORTUGAL | 18.06.2017 | EUROPA O número de vítimas mortais no incêndio que deflagrou na tarde de sábado em Pedrógão Grande não para de subir. São já 57 as vítimas mortais, civis, incluindo 18 apanhados pelas chamas quando circulavam por estradas e três intoxicados pelo fumo. Um cenário horrível.

No dia 11 de junho ocorreu mais um desfile em homenagem aos 300 anos da Maçonaria Moderna. Desta vez coube aos Maçons de Warwickshire. Artigo Relacionado: Maçons comemoram os 300 anos da Maçonaria Especulativa Queremos agradecer a informação e a imagem enviada. Aos 200 Irmãos de Warwickshire que participaram neste encontro as nossas felicidades. Artigos Relacionados: Grande Festa nos jardins do Grande Oriente de Itália | 24.06.2017 | Itália 1717 – Formation and Foundation: John Hamill on 300 years of Freemasonry

QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION 14 JUNE 2017 AN ADDRESS BY VW BRO JOHN HAMILL, PGSWDB, DEPUTY GRAND CHANCELLOR MW Pro Grand Master and brethren, at a dinner party last year the conversation turned to the idea of time travel and, were it to become possible, which period we would like to go back to. I said that, for something I was involved in professionally, I would like to go back to a specific day and location in London to meet and ask questions of a particular group of people and that I would like to bring some of them to our time to see what they had given birth to on that day. It will not surprise you to learn that the date I selected was St John’s Day in summer, the 24th June, in the year 1717 and the location was the Goose and Gridiron tavern in St Paul’s Churchyard. As we know, on that day representatives of four London lodges came together, elected a Grand Master and Grand Wardens and resolved to “revive” the Annual Feast and Quarterly Communications which it was claimed had fallen into desuetude due to the neglect of Sir Christopher Wren when Grand Master. As we also know today, that resolution was based on a pious fiction as there is no evidence for there having been any Grand Lodge or Grand Master before 1717. To us, with the benefit of hindsight, the meeting on 24 June 1717 was a momentous and historical event – but put into the context of the time a different picture emerges. One of the problems of dealing with 1717 and the first few years of the Grand Lodge is the lack of hard facts to work with. It was not until 1723 and the appointment of William Cowper, Clerk of the Parliaments, as Secretary to the Grand Lodge that minutes began to be kept. Of the four lodges which came together to elect a Grand Master in 1717 three are still working today – the Lodge of Antiquity, the Royal Somerset House and Inverness Lodge and the Lodge of Fortitude and Old Cumberland – but their early minutes have long been lost so that, with the exception of those elected to the offices of Grand Master and Grand Wardens we have no records of whom their members were in the years 1717–1725, when the Grand Lodge first called for lodges to submit lists of their members, or who attended the meeting on 24 June 1717. What we can deduce from secondary evidence is that the meeting was not a huge assembly. The Goose and Gridiron survived until the 1890s and just before it was demolished an enterprising masonic historian drew sketches of its exterior and measured the room in which the Grand Lodge was formed. The room would have held less than a hundred people who would have had to stand very close to each other to fit into the room! Our primary source for what happened in those early years is the history of the Craft with which Rev Dr James Anderson prefaced the Rules governing Freemasonry in the second edition of the Book of Constitutions he published on behalf of Grand Lodge in 1738. Because Anderson’s history of the Craft pre-1717 is more than somewhat suspect, some historians have cast doubts on his description of the events in Grand Lodge from 1717–1738. What they forget is that he compiled it on behalf of the Grand Lodge and that it was vetted by a Committee of the Grand Lodge before it went into print. Although writing 20 years after the events of 1717 there would still have been brethren around who were involved in those early years, not least Rev Dr John Theophilus Desaguliers Grand Master in 1719 and Deputy Grand Master in 1722, 1723 and 1725, who would have been very quick to point out any errors of fact in Anderson’s comments on the Grand Lodge. From Anderson’s account in its first years the Grand Lodge met only for the Annual Assembly and Grand Feast to elect the Grand Master and Grand Wardens. From two other sources we can deduce that the Grand Lodge began to act as a regulatory body in 1720. Both the 1723 and 1738 editions of the Book of Constitutions include a postscript describing the ancient manner of constituting a new lodge as practised by the Grand Master George Payne in 1720. A very rare masonic book entitled “The Book M or Masonry Triumphant” published by a brother Leonard Umphreville in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1736 includes a report of a meeting of Grand Lodge in 1720 in which a Code of Rules for the government of the Craft compiled by the then Grand Master, George Payne, was adopted. The report was followed by the list of 39 Rules, which formed the basis of the Rules printed in the first edition of the Book of Constitutions published in 1723. Some have questioned why there were no press reports of the event in 1717, but they have been looking at the past with the eyes of the present. In 1717 Freemasonry was largely unknown. The late 17th and 18th centuries were a great age of societies and clubs many of them meeting in taverns and the growing network of fashionable coffee houses in the Cities of London and Westminster. If noticed at all, the formation of Grand Lodge would have been seen as just another society. It was not until the early 1720s when Past Grand Masters George Payne and Dr Desaguliers began to attract members of the nobility and the Royal Society into Freemasonry that the press of the day began to notice Freemasonry, reporting on the initiations of prominent men of the day and the annual Grand Feasts of the Grand Lodge. It was not until 1723 that the Grand Lodge became fully established as the regulatory body we know today. By that year, in addition to the keeping of minutes of Quarterly Communications and the publication of the first Book of Constitutions, the Grand Lodge had extended its authority outside the Cities of London and Westminster, issuing deputations to constitute lodges in the Provinces and bringing into the fold some independent lodges that had been meeting quietly in the northern provinces. The Rules compiled by Payne in 1720 and published in the Book of Constitutions in 1723 introduced the concept of regularity, stating that no new lodge would be countenanced as regular unless it had been personally constituted by the Grand Master or a brother deputed by the Grand Master to act for him. At a conference sponsored by our premier lodge of research, Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, at the Queen’s College, Cambridge, last September two academics gave a paper suggesting that we were celebrating four years too early and casting doubts on the meeting in 1717. Having carefully studied their paper my response is that old fashioned polite English expletive: balderdash! Their thesis seems to boil down to an academic semantic argument as to what constitutes a Grand Lodge. They appear to think that we were not a Grand Lodge until 1721 because there is no evidence for any attempt at regulation before that date. It is beyond doubt that at the meeting on 24 June 1717 Anthony Sayer, Capt John Elliot and Jacob Lamball were, respectively, elected Grand Master and Senior and Junior Grand Wardens – officers of a Grand Lodge. The academics appear to believe that, like Athene springing fully armed from the head of Zeus, for the meeting in 1717 to be accepted as the formation of a Grand Lodge it should have immediately acted as a regulatory body. Life rarely works that way! In talking of time travel I said I would like to bring back from 1717 some of those involved in the meeting on 24 June. In their wildest imaginings they could not have envisaged what their simple and small meeting would give birth to: a worldwide fraternity of regular Freemasonry spread over the whole world. They would find some things that they would recognise from their practice of Freemasonry but would also find much that was very different. Over the last 300 years Freemasonry has developed and expanded in ways they could not have imagined. What English Freemasonry has demonstrated over the last 300 years is that it is a living organisation capable of changing its outward forms and adapting itself to the society in which it currently exists. It has had a wonderful knack of making those changes without in any way changing those fundamental and inalienable principles and tenets on which Freemasonry was founded and which would certainly be recognised by those who met in 1717. The more I study our ancient Craft the more I am convinced that whatever problems we may face from time to time, provided that we maintain that delicate balance between managed change and not altering our basic principles and tenets, Freemasonry will ride over those problems and future generations will be able to enjoy its fellowship and privileges as we and the many generations that have gone before us have done since that happy day in 1717 on which Grand Lodge was born. John Hamill

A Bíblia não pode ser substituída por um livro em branco, ou até pelo livro da Constituição, como se faz noutros ritos. Um livro em branco não é senão o arquétipo carente de sentido. A Maçonaria concilia as religiões dogmáticas e as religiões que não reconhecem a existência de um Deus criador ou de um demiurgo. Daí a sua capacidade para “reunir o que está disperso”, definição lapidar do universalismo do Rito Escocês Antigo e Aceite que permite ascender do incognoscível ao cognoscível, de vincular o visível e o invisível, de propor uma união do humano com o divino. Certos ritos, que confundem religião e sentimento religioso, não nos mostram este símbolo. O Rito Escocês Antigo e Aceite não é o substitutivo de uma religião, pela bela razão de que não nos entrega uma verdade revelada e de que não vamos à Loja para adorar nela o Eterno. Trabalhar em sua glória e praticar a evocação do Grande Arquitecto do Universo põe-nos no caminho do transcendente, cabendo-nos a cada um de nós interpretar esse símbolo em função do nosso próprio entendimento. Extraído do site www.glantigos.org

Vai decorrer no dia 24 de junho de 2017 e nos jardins do Grande Oriente de Itália, uma Grande Festa para comemorar os 300 anos da Maçonaria moderna ou especulativa. O evento está aberto a todos os que nele queiram participar. Se pretender realizar uma visita solicite a credenciação. AQUI: 300@grandeoriente.it Se não puder estar presente dar-lhe-mos notícias.

Fomos informados pelo Irmão Mestre Maçon, Silva Cordeiro, 2.º Vigilante da Loja "Costa Araújo", n.º 3, de Campo Maior, Brasil, que foi concedido pela Loja e ao Venerável Mestre José Flávio Furtado Marinho, uma Placa Comemorativa pelo seu excelente trabalho na respetiva Loja. O mandato termina no mês de junho. Ao homenageado, Irmão e Venerável Mestre José Flávio Furtado Marinho, os parabéns do MY FRATERNITY (O homenageado com a Placa Comemorativa, ladeado pelos Confrades Valdir Pinheiro Barros, Francisco Gomes Oliveira e Joaquim Gomes de Mesquita).

QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION 14 JUNE 2017 AN ADDRESS BY THE MW THE PRO GRAND MASTER PETER LOWNDES Brethren, as we approach the 24th June 2017, the actual date of our Tercentenary Anniversary, it is very fitting that at this meeting we look back on our history with pride. John Hamill, in his inimitable style, has reminded us of the debt we owe to the Time Immemorial Lodges whose foresight set us on our current path and the Grand Master will be unveiling a plaque recognising this next week. Whilst mentioning the Grand Master it is fitting to remember the debt we owe him and recognise that today is 50 years to the day since he was elected as our Grand Master. How fortunate we have been. We also congratulate W Bro Cyril McGibbon whose 105th birthday it is today. He still attends every meeting, rather appropriately, of Lodge of Perseverance No. 155 and recently proposed the toast to the ladies at their last ladies’ evening. On the 18th April we remembered all our brethren who have fallen since 1945 in the service of their country by opening the Masonic Memorial Garden at the National Memorial Arboretum and, a week later, in the presence of the Grand Master, we remembered with pride those of our brethren awarded the Victoria Cross in the First World War in a magnificent ceremony outside the Tower Entrance to Freemasons’ Hall. For those unable to witness that event a DVD has been produced, the proceeds of which will be donated to the VC and GC Association. And so, as we look back with pride, we must look forward with confidence, recognising that we are a real force for good in society and have so much to contribute to it. The Sky TV programme has given us an amazing platform and viewing figures have been good. The series has been well received and our Provinces are reporting a real upsurge of interest which I know you are capitalising on in order to secure our future. In addition, brethren, I believe it has enabled us to be aware of how important it is to talk openly about our Freemasonry and, perhaps, even how best to do so. For those without Sky TV, a DVD has been produced which is available in the Letchworth’s shop as from today. Brethren, as Pro Grand Master, it is very encouraging, yet humbling, to witness just how much effort you are all putting in to promoting our masonic values and making this Tercentenary year such a tremendous success. I congratulate you all. Your charitable giving never ceases to amaze me and, at the recent Sussex Festival for the Grand Charity, a magnificent total of £3,617,437 was raised. This has been followed by the West Yorkshire Festival for the RMBI, which raised £3,300,300. These are fantastic results and, brethren, I now have firm figures which show that last year we not only supported our own brethren with over £15 million in grants, but helped non-masonic charities with grants in excess of £17 million. Brethren, this year the nation has been rocked by a number of serious terrorist attacks at Westminster Bridge, the Manchester Arena and at London Bridge. You should be aware that we have received numerous letters of support and concern from other Sovereign Grand Lodges around the world, some enclosing generous cheques to the East Lancashire Fund which have supplemented the extreme generosity shown by many towards this fund and I have been assured by the PGM that the money will be spent wisely where need is identified. Thank you so much. Brethren, whilst congratulating you on all your efforts, I must pay tribute to my fellow Rulers who have been globe-trotting on our behalf. The Deputy Grand Master has paid a second visit to India this year, this time to attend the District of Northern India’s Tercentenary celebrations having previously been to Bombay and then followed this by attending a Regional Conference in Jamaica. The Assistant Grand Master, as President of the Universities’ Scheme, invaded South Africa with a very strong team. He followed this, immediately after our Grand Investiture, with a gala lunch and banner dedication in Malta. As a past Ruler, David Williamson kindly represented us in Gibraltar and just to show that I have not been sitting idly by, I have just returned from a most enjoyable visit to our District in The Eastern Archipelago having previously visited Bermuda for the bicentenary of their Lodge of Loyalty. Carrying out these visits is a great privilege and our brethren in the District really value our presence and have great pride in being members of the oldest Grand Lodge. Their hospitality is most generous as they try to kill us with their kindness. Sleep is rarely on the agenda. Brethren, many of you here today, in fact I would say the majority of you, are wearing the Tercentenary jewel and I have been impressed by the take-up of them, particularly in the Districts. Now that we have overcome the supply problem I hope you will encourage members of your lodges to acquire one if they have not already done so. That brings me neatly on to the subject of the very fine Tercentenary Master’s collar ornament. Many Masters’ collars display the 250th or 275th jewel and as from 24th June, surely the 300th would be more appropriate and if lodges are not displaying any jewel then surely now is the time to show pride in having reached this landmark. It is a very fine silver gilt ornament and whilst I have one here, the best way for you to see it is to acquire one for your lodge. Finally, brethren, at this meeting, I normally tell you to enjoy the summer break and come back refreshed which, of course, I hope you will. But, the number of events between now and September is staggering. May I suggest that you enjoy them and use them to reinvigorate our lodges. I feel immensely proud to be leading such a vibrant organisation at this time. Thank you all.

A "Comissão Escrutinadora da Academia Piauiense de Mestres Maçons" declarou no seu relatório, que se tornou público, que se sagraram vários maçons, com o prémio "Mestre Maçon Honoris Causa". Não podemos alongar-nos nesta informação, mas deixamos aqui uma fotografia e o resultado da sua eleição. Trata-se do Irmão Ernâni Napoleão Lima, Mestre Maçon Emérito da Loja "Costa Araújo, nº 3", de Campo Maior, ex-Grão-Mestre da Grande Loja e que obteve 57,333% dos votos. Parabéns ao Irmão Ernâni e a todos os vencedores.

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Maçons comemoram os 300 anos da Maçonaria Especulativa | Freemasons celebrating 300 years on Bridge Street, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.

O MY FRATERNITY saúda os novos Grandes Inspetores Gerais do Rito, cidade de S. Luís, capital do Estado do Maranhão. Neste sábado, dia 10 de junho de 2017 foram elevados ao 33.º Grau do Rito Escocês Antigo e Aceite*, os Irmãos António de Pádua Aragão da Silva e José Flávio Furtado Marinho, da Loja “Costa Araújo, nº 3”; Francisco Gomes Oliveira e Francisco Mendes da Silva, da Loja “Mestre Araújo Chaves", nº 12 (foto), dentre outros. O MY FRATERNITY saúda os novos Grandes Inspetores Gerais do Rito. *Supremo Conselho do Rito Escocês Antigo e Aceite (REAA), sediado no Rio de Janeiro (Esquerda para a Direita: António de Pádua, José Flávio, Francisco Gomes e Francisco Mendes)

Já é corrente que o atual Presidente Alexander van der Bellen é um maçon ativo. Winston Churchill, o atual Prince Edward, filho mais novo da Rainha Elizabeth, Theodore Rosevelt, Kurt Tucholsky, Emanuel Schikaneder, Alexandre Herculano, Bocage e muitos outros são ou foram maçons. Na Áustria, a primeira Loja “Aux Trois Canons” foi fundada em 1742. Também aqui a Maçonaria esteve proibida no Império Austro-Húngaro e com a presença dos nazistas. Com a forte influência católica a maçonaria é discreta. Sendo este canal o melhor meio para chegar a casa de cada um dos maçons austríacos. Com notícias diárias. Uma saudação muito especial para todos os maçons austríacos. Presidente Alexander van der Bellen

A cidade de Bragança é a capital do Distrito de Bragança, região de Trás-os-Montes, Nordeste de Portugal. Trata-se do oitavo maior município português, com 1 173, 57 Km2 de área. Dizem que os Celtas batizaram esta cidade com o nome de "Brigância", tendo sido fundada no século II antes da Era Cristã. Venha visitar nesta cidade a ROTA MAÇÓNICA. Ou conhecer melhor a ROTA Judaica. Se preferir a ROTA CRISTÃ. Inscreva-se. AQUI. LINK: https://www.myfraternity.org/visitas-guiadas-braganca-portugal