We have your letter of October 12, 1971 concerning the date
for the holding of the Nineteen Day Feast. It is preferable that Nineteen Day Feasts
be held on the first day of the Bahá'í month, but if it should be difficult to
do so, it is permissible to hold it on a succeeding day of the Bahá'í month.
The matter is left to the discretion of the Local Spiritual Assembly.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 28 October, 1971 to the National Teaching Committee of
Ireland, included in Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, No. 213, May 1972;
compilation: ‘Lights of Guidance’)