Waynesburg Lodge No. 153

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A Stated Meeting of Waynesburg Lodge

No. 153 Free and Accepted Masons will be held in the Masonic Hall, Giant Eagle Plaza, Waynesburg, PA.

Monday June 10, 2024

at 7:30 p.m.

Program

Past Masters Recognition

Extra Meeting

Monday June 17, 2024

at 7:00 p.m.

Fellowship Breakfast

Saturday June 1 at 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Friends and family are welcome.

District Deputy Grand Master

Official Visitation Schedule

June 18                Claysville Lodge No. 447

Flag Day June 14

"We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty."
               Brother George Washington

“The flag is a part of our ritual and a part of our heritage. It’s a part of being a Mason.”

“We pledge allegiance to it and we will fight for it, if necessary. It’s just a piece of cloth but it’s a meaningful piece of cloth.”

“This country was founded by giants of history who were mostly Freemasons. And they sewed this into every thread of our government and the flag was a symbol of what they did.”

“It’s a symbol of the sacrifices the people before us made. It’s symbolic of the establishment of a new idea – a grand experiment – a new democracy.”

Father’s Day

               The first known Father’s Day service occurred in Fairmont, West Virginia, on July 5, 1908, after hundreds of men died in the worst mining accident in U.S. history. Grace Golden Clayton, proposed a service to honor all fathers, especially those who had died.

In 1909, Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, was inspired by Anna Jarvis and the idea of Mother’s Day. Her father, William Jackson Smart, a farmer and Civil War veteran, was also a single parent who raised Sonora and her five brothers by himself, after his wife Ellen died giving birth to their youngest child in 1898. While attending a Mother’s Day church service in 1909, Sonora, came up with the idea.

The widely publicized events in Spokane struck a chord that reached all the way to Washington, D.C., and Sonora’s celebration put the idea on the path to becoming a national holiday. The first bill was introduced in Congress in 1913, but in spite of encouragement from President Woodrow Wilson, it did not pass.

Eight years later, President Calvin Coolidge signed a resolution in favor of Father’s Day “to establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations.”

In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed an executive order that the holiday be celebrated on the third Sunday in June.

Under President Richard Nixon, in 1972, Congress passed an act officially making Father’s Day a national holiday.

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