Category: Arlington Baha’is

Arlington Baha’is Celebrate the Feast of Bahá

March 21st marks the first day of Bahá (Splendor) which first month of the Bahá’í calendar. After breaking the fast together on Friday March 20th, on March 21st the Arlington community gathered together to celebrate the first Nineteen-Day Feast of the new year. Nineteen-Day Feast is a centerpiece of the Bahá’í Community. The Bahá’í calendar consists of 19 months, with 19 days in each month. Therefore at the beginning of each month, Baha’is all over the world gather together for a “Feast.” There are three portions to every Nineteen-Day Feast, a devotional part during which prayers are read, an administrative portion during which the affairs of the community are discussed, and a social portion. ‘Abdu’l-Baha stated:

“As to the Nineteen Day Feast, it rejoiceth mind and heart. If this feast be held in the proper fashion, the friends will, once in nineteen days, find themselves spiritually restored, and endued with a power that is not of this world.”

We invite you to enjoy a short slideshow of pictures taken this weekend in Arlington from the Feast of Bahá.

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Mar 23, 2009 | 1 comment View Post

Prayers for Religious Freedom

Deeply concerned about the plight of their Bahá’í brothers and sisters in Iran, the Arlington Bahá’í Community invites you to gather for a planned series of prayer meetings and conference calls.

We invite friends of all faith backgrounds to come together and pray with us. We will pray for protection and healing, for understanding and love, for compassion and justice. On Valentine’s Day, when so many are talking about love, let us call to mind the words of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the son of Bahá’u’lláh:

“I charge you all that each one of you concentrate all the thoughts of your heart on love and unity. When a thought of war comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of peace. A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of love.”

Please contact us for more information.

For the most timely and up-to-date information regarding the plight of the Bahá’í in Iran please visit iran.bahai.us.

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Feb 15, 2009 | 0 comments View Post

Stamford, CT Bahá’í Conference

A group of Bahá’ís from Arlington attended the regional Bahá’í conference in Stamford, CT on December 13th and 14th. This conference was part of the series of 41 conferences that have been taking place all over the world. The purpose of this conference was to celebrate, study, and plan. We were celebrating the past achievements, studying the most recent guidance from the Universal House of Justice, and planning activities in our local communities.
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Dec 24, 2008 | 1 comment View Post

Arlington Bahá’ís Take Part in Historic Conferences

Many Arlington Bahá’ís are excited about taking part in a series of forty-one conferences taking place all across the globe . The conferences were called by the Universal House of Justice, the supreme administrative body for the Bahá’ís of the world, to discuss community activities. Six of the forty-one conferences are being held at various locations in the United States, two of which have been or will be attended by Arlington Bahá’ís including one this past weekend (December 6-7) in Atlanta, Georgia and one this coming weekend (December 13-14) in Stamford, Connecticut.

The Bahá’í World News has created a website to capture a summary of each of these meetings and provide a space for participants to share their comments. Mehrdad who attended the conference in New Delhi, India stated “The highlight here is the coming together of diverse peoples, sitting under one roof, and thinking the same—the unity of thought of people. I am seeing this for the first time in my life. It’s the realization of what Bahá’u’lláh described: the garden with different flowers.”

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Dec 09, 2008 | 3 comments View Post

A New Baha’i Visits Haifa

I had the honor of being invited to Haifa, Israel, in March 2008, for meetings at the Baha’i World Center. I had become a Baha’i just a year before.

My wife, who accompanied me, and I had an opportunity to tour the Baha’i Holy Places at Bahji – the Shrine of Baha’u'llah – and the Shrine of the Bab on Mount Carmel in Haifa.

From among hundreds of photos that we took, I would like to share this two-minute animated slide show of a new Baha’i's first visit to the Holy Lands.

~ David Henderson, an Arlington Baha’i

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Dec 07, 2008 | 2 comments View Post
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