The Chapel – April/May 2024
Good and Faithful Servants Called Home
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck that which is planted. A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.”
-Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3
Our Dear Brothers who have laid aside their working tools and have Passed To The Grand Lodge Above. May it be their portion to hear from him who sitteth as Judge Supreme …
“Well done thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joys of thy Lord.”
Brother | Home Lodge | Deceased |
Robert C. Vandermeer | Chapman Lodge | 5/30/2024 |
Siegbert R. Mainz | Sacramento Lodge | 6/9/2024 |
Edmundo Vasquez | Chapman Lodge | 6/11/2024 |
Rudolph E. Laumbach | Chapman Lodge | 6/15/2024 |
Please keep these Brother’s families in your thoughts and prayers.
From the Book of Common Prayer, Church of England
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
In the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased?
Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee.
Please let us know if there are additions to the list above. We will add them in subsequent issues. Please keep these Brothers’ families in your thoughts and prayers.