To a very large extent, the success of the Feast depends on
the quality of the preparation and participation of the individual. The beloved
Master offers the following advice: "Give ye great weight to the Nineteen
Day gatherings, so that on these occasions the beloved of the Lord and the
handmaids of the Merciful may turn their faces toward the Kingdom, chant the
communes, beseech God's help, become joyfully enamored each of the other, and
grow in purity and holiness, and in the fear of God, and in resistance to
passion and self. Thus will they separate themselves from this elemental world,
and immerse themselves in the ardors of the spirit."
(The Universal House
of Justice, from a message dated 27 August 1989 to the Followers of
Baha’u’llah, ‘A Wider Horizon, Selected Letters 1983-1992’)
