May 1st at sunset – May 2nd before sunset, 2023.
Every celebration is open to the entire community!
MONDAY, MAY 1st after sunset
The North Sector invites the entire community to please join us for dessert!
Location: Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt
Time: Monday, May 1st from 7:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Address: 15678 N. Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd., Unit 120 Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Note: Thank you for understanding that each of us will be paying for our own meal.
TUESDAY, MAY 2nd before sunset
The South Sector invites the entire community to please join us for brunch!
Location: Wildflower
Time: Tuesday, May 2nd at 11:00 am
Address: 7001 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85253
Note: Thank you for understanding that each of us will be paying for our own meal.
The Central Sector invites the entire community to please join us for a potluck lunch!
Location: Scottsdale Ranch Park (Mountain View and Via Linda, Ramada 6 near the volleyball courts)
Time: Tuesday, May 2nd from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Note: Please bring your own lunch and refreshments (no extras will be provided).
The East Sector invites the entire community to please join us for dinner!
Location: Flower Child
Address: 10460 N. 90th Street, Scottsdale, AZ. 85258
Time: Tuesday, May 2nd from 5:00 pm to Sunset (7:12 pm)
Note: Thank you for understanding that each of us will be paying for our own meal.
A twelve-day festival in the Bahá’í Faith, commemorating Bahá’u’lláh’s declaration that he was a Manifestation of God. Riḍván means “Paradise” and is named after the Garden of Riḍván (lit. garden of paradise) or Najibiyyih Garden. It is the holiest Bahá’í festival, and is also referred to as the “Most Great Festival” and the “King of Festivals”. The first day, ninth day, and twelfth days are Holy Days in which work is to be suspended.
Inhale the fragrances of the Ridván from His roses and be not of those who are deprived. Appreciate the bounty of God upon you and be not veiled therefrom – and, verily, We have sent Him forth in the temple of man. Thus praise ye the Lord, the Originator of whatsoever He willeth through His wise and inviolable Command!
Verily, those who withhold themselves from the shelter of the Branch are indeed lost in the wilderness of perplexity; and are consumed by the heat of self-desire, and are of those who perish.
Hasten, O people, unto the shelter of God, in order that He may protect you from the heat of the Day whereon none shall find for himself any refuge or shelter except beneath the shelter of His Name, the clement, the forgiving! Clothe yourselves, O people, with the garment of assurance, in order that He may protect you from the dart of doubts and superstitions, and that ye may be of those who are assured in those days wherein none shall ever be assured and none shall be firmly established in the Cause, except by severing himself from all that is possessed by the people and turning unto the holy and radiant Outlook.
-Bahá’u’lláh, The Tablet of the Branch – from Bahá’í World Faith