{"id":6344,"date":"2024-12-31T17:57:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T17:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2025-01-06T23:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T23:39:43","slug":"chairetismos-megalou-didaskalou-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/en\/2024\/12\/31\/chairetismos-megalou-didaskalou-for-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Master\u2019s Greeting for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Grand Master\u2019s Greeting for 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\nMy brethren,<br\/><br\/>\n\nA beautiful year has come to an end. A year that will forever remain etched in my memory, as you honored me by electing me to the position of Grand Master of the NGLG.<br\/><br>\n\nYour trust in me fills me with a profound sense of responsibility for the future. I cannot yet tell you the outcome of your choice, but I can assure you that I will do everything in my power to meet the expectations of such an honorable selection.<br\/><br>\n\nI have found companions in this effort in all of you, and for this reason, I want to thank each and every one of you, collectively and individually, for the heartfelt dedication you show daily by my side, so that together we may see our NGLG reach the level it rightfully deserves.<br\/><\/br>\n\nThe challenges are many, and those who envy this progress are even more numerous. However, evolution is inevitable, both for the NGLG and for Greek Freemasonry as a whole! The river can no longer flow backward.<br\/><br\/>\n\nI would like, at this point, to thank from the bottom of my heart\n\nThe Grand Officers for their dedication, so that my vision becomes more and more feasible day by day\nFormer M.D. Rev. Ad. George Deligiorgis for choosing to nominate me as his successor. All I can promise him is that I will strive daily, until the completion of my term of office, to justify his choice.\nFormer M.D. Rev. Ad. Emmanuel Gerakio and a host of brethren from other tectonic powers who followed him, for choosing to join the ranks of the H.M.S.T.E.\n\nThis choice demonstrates two facts:\n\nThe stature of the man who, in his mature and fuller Masonic age, chooses to remain free, useful and romantic as a Mason disciple.\nThe fact that, despite so many voices to the contrary over so many years, Greek Masons, no matter in which Grand Lodge they were forged, can coexist. Not only as brothers under the same roof, but also as lovers of two different Masonic types, both leading to the same dual result: personal uplift and the betterment of the world around us.\n\nIn the Symbolic Lodges under the umbrella of the EMST, more than one Masonic Type is used. I clearly declare myself a devotee of all of them, regardless of whether I took my first Masonic steps with that of the Amillis Formula. Having already studied and worked in different formulas, I consider it to be feasible and entirely beneficial for all - for, as Einstein said, <i>\u201cWisdom is not a product of schooling, but the result of a lifelong attempt to acquire it.\u201d<\/i><br\/><br\/>\n\nIn this spirit, my brethren, I invite all of you who have the time and willingness to explore these rituals, to attend the workings of Lodges that practice them. By doing so, you grant yourselves the opportunity to witness the greatness that lies behind each one and to better understand your Brother who works within a different framework.<br\/><br\/>\n\nThe Lodges of an educational nature will, over the coming year, analyze both the ritualistic aspects and the educational-symbolic essence of each of these rituals, with the assistance of the Grand Secretary of Education.<br\/><br\/>\n\n\nI wish you and your families a Happy and Prosperous New Year, a Wonderful 2025, filled with Health and Good Fortune, and may we always meet both within and beyond the Lodges!<br\/><br\/>\nBuild unto the Ages!<br\/>\nI have spoken, my Brethren!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With honor and responsibility, we welcome 2025, continuing united for progress and personal growth.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-30"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nglgreece.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}