19-Day Feast

2013-02-28 Thread Firouz
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Dear Friends, I am looking for some guidance or directive on how to conduct the Administrative part of a feast, and in what order. For example, we know that consultation takes place during the Administrative part of the feast, does it matter to have consultation at

Re: 19-Day Feast

2013-02-28 Thread Susan Maneck
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Usually the administrative portion follows the spiritual portion and the actual food comes last, but on occasion we have changed the order because of various considerations. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Firouz firo...@gmail.com wrote: The Baha'i Studies Listserv

Re: 19-Day Feast

2013-02-28 Thread jonah winters
The Baha'i Studies Listserv I don't know if you'll find the answer here, but all online documents I know of about Feasts can be found at http://bahai-library.com/title/feast (and the Lights of Guidance section, http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance#nnnXIX.C ). -Jonah

Re: Progressive Revelation Wikipedia quote

2013-02-28 Thread Stephen Gray
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Anyone familiar with the correct chronology for some of the dates quoted? From: Stephen Gray skg_z...@yahoo.com To: Baha'i Studies bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 2:06 PM Subject: Progressive Revelation

Re: 19-Day Feast

2013-02-28 Thread Ehsan Bayat
The Baha'i Studies Listserv If this feast be held in the proper fashion, `Abdu'l-Bahá states, the friends will, once in nineteen days, find themselves spiritually restored, and endued with a power that is not of this world. To ensure this glorious outcome the concept of the Feast must be

Re: Progressive Revelation Wikipedia quote

2013-02-28 Thread Gary Selchert
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Stop worrying about the chronology! The one you're using is fine. Go back and re-read the Kitab-i-Iqan a couple of times instead. -Original Message- From: Stephen Gray skg_z...@yahoo.com To: Baha'i Studies bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Sent: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 11:02

Re: 19-Day Feast

2013-02-28 Thread Mike Moum
The Baha'i Studies Listserv The Guidelines for Local Spiritual Assemblies, downloadable from usbnc.org after you log in, has a chapter on Feast. Much good guidance (obviously). It should answer all your questions. Mike On 02/28/2013 07:25 AM, Firouz wrote: The Baha'i Studies Listserv Dear

Re: 19-Day Feast

2013-02-28 Thread Firouz
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Dear all, Thanks so much to everyone of you for replying to my query and providing some useful links. Best regards, Firouz On 01/03/2013 01:44, Ehsan Bayat wrote: The Baha'i Studies Listserv If this feast be held in the proper fashion, `Abdu'l-Bahá states, the

Re: 19-Day Feast

2013-02-28 Thread Firouz
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Dear Mike, As a non-US citizen, I have no access to usbnc.org. I appreciate if you could share the guidelines for LSAs with me privately. Thank you. Best regards, Firouz On 01/03/2013 04:23, Mike Moum wrote: The Baha'i Studies Listserv The Guidelines for Local

Re: 19-Day Feast

2013-02-28 Thread Don Calkins
The Baha'i Studies Listserv the following version should provide the info you want. http://www.holy-writings.com/?a=SHOWTEXTd=%2Fen%2FBahai+Faith%2F4+-+Miscellaneous%2FDeveloping+Distinctive+Bahai+Communities+-+LSA+Guidelines+%28USA%29.html Don C On Feb 28, 2013, at 6:37 23PM, Firouz wrote:

Re: 19-Day Feast

2013-02-28 Thread Firouz
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Thank you dear Don, highly appreciate that. Warm greetings, Firouz On 01/03/2013 08:46, Don Calkins wrote: The Baha'i Studies Listserv the following version should provide the info you want.

DDBC [was Re: 19-Day Feast]

2013-02-28 Thread jonah winters
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Thanks, Don There are links to 5 different versions of Developing Distinctive Baha'i Communities provided at bahai-library.com/nsa_developing_distinctive_communities . (I don't have any hosted on my server due to permissions issues.) -J