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Jamál (Beauty), 8 Kamál (Perfection), 173 BE - Sunday, August 7, 2016 AD The Nineteen Day Feast: The Lord's Supper It is the first Sunday in August 2016. It is eight days after the Feast of Perfection. There are nineteen feast days in the Badi calendar, that calendar followed by Baha'is across the world when it comes to celebrating holy days, feast days, and days of commemoration. The feast are held every nineteen days because the Baha'i month consists of nineteen days. The first day of the month is designated as the feast day for that month. Each month is named after an attribute of God with each week day being named for a divine attribute. What got me to thinking about the nine day feast was a poem I wrote a few years ago about The Lord's Supper, which for Baha'is is the Nineteen Day feast. The Lord's Supper: A Poem about the Nineteen Day Feast Atoms of air resonate With the Nightingale's Speech Intoning Words of revelation Chanting the Names of God The Beloved of all worlds Ascends over Splendor's horizon The Glory of God Rises above the mountains of Might Dispelling the illusions of night Reflecting from Perfection's Mirror The Light of Divine Unity Generates a new creation Resurrected from the tomb of self Soul soars of the wings of divine Knowledge Into the Heaven of God's Will In the Loftiness of paradise At the Table of God's Beauty Spirit consumes the Bread of Life In the garden of Grandeur From t he chalice of Mercy Essence quaffs the wine of immortality The soul set ablaze with the Power of God The seeker's Questions are answered By the pen of Divine revelation He knows that humanity's Honor Is neither in physical Sovereignty Nor material Dominion |