Monday, March 2, the Bahá’ís of Pasadena, California will join five million Bahá’ís worldwide in their annual period of fasting. For nineteen days each year, March second through March twentieth, Bahá’ís abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset. Before dawn, families awaken to pray together and have their morning meal. The obligation of fasting begins at age fifteen and continues until the age of seventy.
Like Lent in Christianity and Ramadan in Islam, the Bahá’í Fast is essentially a period of meditation and prayer when the individual reflects on his or her own spiritual life. It symbolizes the importance of detachment and self-restraint and is used as spiritual preparation for the Bahá’í new year which begins March twenty-first: http://info.bahai.org/article-1-4-7-2.html
The Bahá’í Faith, the second most widely spread religion in the world after Christianity, has more than five million members world wide of whom 142,000 reside in the United States: www.bahai.org
Sunrise/Sunset times for March
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | ||
| 1 Sunrise: 6:21am Sunset: 5:48pm |
2 Sunrise: 6:20am Sunset: 5:49pm |
3 Sunrise: 6:19am Sunset: 5:50pm |
4 Sunrise: 6:18am Sunset: 5:51pm |
5 Sunrise: 6:16am Sunset: 5:51pm |
6 Sunrise: 6:15am Sunset: 5:52pm |
7 Sunrise: 6:14am Sunset: 5:53pm |
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9 Sunrise: 7:11am Sunset: 6:55pm |
10 Sunrise: 7:10am Sunset: 6:56pm |
11 Sunrise: 7:09am Sunset: 6:56pm |
12 Sunrise: 7:07am Sunset: 6:57pm |
13 Sunrise: 7:06am Sunset: 6:58pm |
14 Sunrise: 7:05am Sunset: 6:59pm |
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| 15 Sunrise: 7:03am Sunset: 7:00pm |
16 Sunrise: 7:02am Sunset: 7:00pm |
17 Sunrise: 7:00am Sunset: 7:01pm |
18 Sunrise: 6:59am Sunset: 7:02pm |
19 Sunrise: 6:58am Sunset: 7:03pm |
20 Sunrise: 6:56am Sunset: 7:03pm |
21 Sunrise: 6:55am Sunset: 7:04pm |
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| 22 Sunrise: 6:54am Sunset: 7:05pm |
23 Sunrise: 6:52am Sunset: 7:06pm |
24 Sunrise: 6:51am Sunset: 7:06pm |
25 Sunrise: 6:50am Sunset: 7:07pm |
26 Sunrise: 6:48am Sunset: 7:08pm |
27 Sunrise: 6:47am Sunset: 7:09pm |
28 Sunrise: 6:45am Sunset: 7:10pm |
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| 29 Sunrise: 6:44am Sunset: 7:10pm |
30 Sunrise: 6:43am Sunset: 7:11pm |
31 Sunrise: 6:41am Sunset: 7:12pm |
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