Our National Anthem: Freemasons' Song Of Glorious Freedom
Marcha Nacional Filipina
Armed with a letter of recommendation from Gen. Mariano Trias, music composer Julian Filipe had an audience with Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo on June 5, 1898.
The piano rendition of Felipe was euphonically pleasant to hear but Gen. Aguinaldo asked the talented composer for another martial air with patriotic fervor.
On June 11th, Felipe came up with a draft. Gen. Baldomero Aguinaldo and Gen. Mariano Trias, together with other revolutionary leaders, took time out to listen to the marching tempo of the composition and were pleased with the martial opus.
Happy New Masonic Year!!
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And day of auld lang syne!
Chorus.-For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
For those who didn't know auld lang syne literally means "old long since" - but a more idiomatic English translation would be something like "long ago", "days of long ago", "in olden days", or even "once upon a time" -and the poet Robert Burns was also a Freemason
Happy New Year, 2011 Brethren. May the year bring you peace, happiness, and light.
IF, YOU WILL MY BROTHER BE
If you believe in
A Great Architect,
And only if;
If you are a man
Good and true
And live God's chosen paths;
If you weep at a man's woes
And his pain is your pain;
His anguished needs
You carefully soothe:
If the moons no more
Your ambition keep
Or at least the direction know;
If the hard and stony path
Is but behind
And not ahead of you;
If your job, its satisfaction done,
And life's a plateau,
Life its stillness bore:
If you have loved
And all the joys of love,
Mellowed to its highest heights;
If life's eternal lesson learned
And have been rewarded
With God's gifts of joy and blessings;
If you have the heart and soul,
And the precious hours
To share this joy with other fellowmen:
If within you, lies a heart
That stirs for more,
And you know not why;
If you ask questions
That gives no answers;
Why, what or who am I:
If you ask,
Is life a tireless search
With no end!
Then, Time is right,
My good fellow,
You are
And you will, my brother be.
