From the Writings of Shoghi Effendi
They must undertake the arrangement of the regular meetings of the friends, the feasts and the anniversaries, as well as the special gatherings designed to serve and promote the social, intellectual and spiritual interests of their fellow-men.
(12 March 1923 to the Bahá’ís of America, Great Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Japan and Australasia, published in Bahá’í Administration: Selected Messages 1922–1932 [rev. ed.], (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1980), p. 38) [27]