- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 1 January 1973, to the
Hands of the Cause residing in the Holy Land; The Compilation of Compilations,
vol. I, The Nineteen Day Feast)
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A warm social activity before the start of a Nineteen Day Feast - 21 January 1973
We can understand the desire of some of the friends to
provide a warm welcome at the Feasts to newly declared believers and
particularly youth, and we see no objection to the Assembly giving a reception
before the actual Feast to achieve this purpose. As the Feast is frequently
held in the evening, the Assembly might consider it desirable to arrange for
the believers to have a light evening meal together before the Feast is held or
it could, for example, arrange for social activities of an appropriate kind
while the friends are gathering prior to the actual commencement of the
Nineteen Day Feast. This should not, however, take the place of the social part
of the Feast itself.
