Most Outstanding Mindanaoan

Grand Master Suan awarded Most Outstanding Mindanaoan 2020

By Bro. Goloo Mengrajani / Head News Correspondent - Mindanao

Cagayan De Oro City

At the 2nd Mindanao Governance & Leadership Excellence Award held last November 30 at the Centro Ayala Events Center, MW Agapito S. Suan, Jr. – Grand Master of Free & Accepted Masons of the Philippines, was recognized by the Mindanao Daily News (MDN) and Veterans Bank as Most Outstanding Mindanaoan in Excellent Governance & Leadership for Civic Organizations Category.

As the Grand Master is still in Manila attending to his duties in the Grand East on an extended term, his eldest son - CDO City Councilor Lordan G. Suan accepted the award on behalf. Like his father, Bro. Lordan is a member of Macajalar Lodge No.184.

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the ordinary," becoming what the term means in the dictionary, exalted in our "spiritual, intellectual and moral worth." Did God even blink when Masonry came? Was the incidence of Masonry in the world designed in its origin so the beauty and worth of its essence can be easily comprehended and, therefore, really valued? Did God blink to allow the flourishing of darkness so the light can be better seen?

Now we are in the middle of a global crisis not only caused by the specter of lethal contagion of a virus disease -- not only causing dilemma in our Masonic labors -- but also by the confusion addled on the genuineness of its nature and origin and, therefore, its cure. Is the Covid-19 pandemic a hoax of an international conspiracy like what more and more scientists coming out, are now claiming? After all our faithful obedience to government protocols, also dutifully reenforced by MW Jun Suan himself to all Masons in the Philippine grand jurisdiction, we now seem to see our poor selves weakly squirming in the world laboratory of human guinea pigs!

We here in Mindanao have not even moved on yet from our solace to accept the recent succumbing, among a few dear brothers, of our Noble Brother Alfonso 'Aldag' Dagudag, a retired army general whose physique, albeit his age, was still too unwilling to flinch. May their souls, by the infinite mercy of the Great Architect of the Universe, rest in peace! This "darkness," this cold, stealthy state of terror, if you may, that we are now in, may yet be an opportune coincidence of ruffian interventions charted by the GAOTU in His trestle board for us to see the Light that we in our speculative quest in Masonry profess to seek meanings in.

This is a war not new to tangle, intellectually and morally at least. In our own unique perspicacity, we dwell and pursue our endeavors even on the esoteric that no common individuals try. Christ may be out of this. There may yet be answers from a mass cleansing of the living souls, a catharsis redeeming, indeed leading to a New World Order. Out of this confusion. From the tradition of ancient civilization, we welcome the new year for another world of awakening and renewed moral heightening in Freemasonry!