
Upcoming Friends of Persian Culture conference
This year’s event will be held from August 28th to August 31st in Chicago.
This description of the lives of the members of the Maxwell family was originally published on “Arise in His Name,” a website of the National Spiritual Assembly designed to commemorate the centenary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá visit to Canada. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá visited Montreal from 30 August to 9 September 1912, and stayed for a period in the Maxwell home, which was later designated a Bahá’í Shrine.
Here is an itinerary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s time in Montreal, Que. along with links to some of the talks he gave, based on an account of May Maxwell and first published on the “Arise in His Name” website. He visited Montreal from 30 August to 9 September 1912.
“O SON OF MAN! Thou art My dominion and My dominion perisheth not; wherefore fearest thou thy perishing? Thou art My light and My light shall never be extinguished; why dost thou dread extinction? Thou art My glory and My glory fadeth not; thou art My robe and My robe shall never be outworn. Abide then in thy love for Me, that thou mayest find Me in the realm of glory.”
A number of youth gatherings and conferences are taking place this summer, with the support of Regional Councils and local teams, bringing hundreds of youth together across the country to discuss matters of spiritual import.
“Beloved friends, we hope that this report helpfully shares the ways in which the friends in Canada have traversed the vast terrain described in the first paragraph of the Ridván message.”
We, the delegates of 67th Canadian Bahá’í National Convention, send our deepest love and appreciation to the Universal House of Justice for blessing and guiding the friends worldwide with its Ridván message of 2015.
The hope of the Board is to motivate each lover of Bahá’u’lláh to study this weighty ordinance more diligently so as to become consciously aware of its precepts and begin to honour it whether or not payment ever becomes due.
We were greatly pleased to receive the message from the delegates to your National Convention.
A global campaign to call attention to the long and unjust imprisonment of seven Bahá’í leaders spawned a worldwide outcry on the seventh anniversary of their arrest.
This issue constitutes an attempt to begin to explore this vast theme: “strengthening the devotional character of the community.”