New 2015 Calendar

[feather]

Mon- Sun.

  same theocratic scheduling as OKM, WT study lessons, TMS, bible reading, etc

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Mon- Sun.

  same theocratic scheduling as OKM, WT study lessons, TMS, bible reading, etc

This is a special gift for us Russians.... 

Finlay!  Because this is how we count days of the week...  

[AH173]

Some info regarding Monday to Sunday Calendars

 

From

 

http://www.cjvlang.com/Dow/SunMon.html

 

Which is the First Day of the Week:
Sunday or Monday

Sunday was traditionally regarded as the first day of the week by both Christians and Jews. Following Jewish tradition, the Bible is quite explicit that God rested on the seventh day of Creation, which formed the basis for the Sabbath, the day of rest.

Even when Constantine made Sunday the Christian day of rest, thus giving it the traditional functions of the Jewish Sabbath, there was no question that Sunday remained the first day of the week. The week introduced by Constantine treated Sunday as Kyriaki 'of the Lord', followed by numbered days from Monday to Thursday ('second' to 'fifth') and specific names for Friday and Saturday. Saturday was Savvato, the Sabbath.

(As to whether Constantine was swayed by his previous worship of the Sun God, or whether he simply ratified a practice that already existed among practising Christians is a point of heated debate among certain modern Christians. It does seem true, however, that Constantine was motivated by a spirit of compromise rather than doctrinal purity. A lot of information about this can be found on the Web).

Notwithstanding Constantine, the custom of treating Monday as the first day of the week appeared quite early. When saints Cyril and Methodius brought Christianity to the Slavs, they took on the Greek tradition of numbering the days, but they numbered them from Monday instead of Sunday.

Thus, Slavic languages treat Monday as the first day, Tuesday as the second, etc. Saturday and Sunday are the only days that are named rather than numbered. Saturday is the Sabbath and Sunday in Russian is the word for "Resurrection". (The foregoing information on Greek and Slavic naming due to John Wilson, personal communication).

In Hungarian, which is a non-Slavic language in a Roman Catholic country, Tuesday appears to come from the word for 'two'. Lithuanian and Latvian, neither of which is Slavic, also name the days with numerals, with Monday coming first.

In more modern times, industrial society has done much to destroy the traditional concept of Sunday as the first day. According to Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (1983), the term 'weekend', first recorded in 1878, refers to 'the period between the close of one working or business or school week and the beginning of the next'. This concept firmly places Sunday at the end of the week.

Possibly because of this, the International Standards Organisation has decided that Monday is to be regarded as the first day of the week. Calendars in many European countries, in particular, now follow the ISO decision by starting the week on Monday. Airline timetables also number the days from Monday as 1, Tuesday as 2, Wednesday as 3, etc.

Information on the web is rather fragmentary, but references can be found at Is Sunday or Monday the first day of the week?, the Catholic Encyclopedia (Sunday, the Sabbath, and Liturgical Week), the Days of the Weekpage, Larry Freeman's Calendar Origin Page, Claus Tøndering's Calendar FAQ, International Units: The Week, and Wikipedia.

[timpin]

Thanks Ashley, with that in mind, let's meet here the first day of next week   ...   every other week.

[On the huh]

We have had Mon-Sun calendars since 2011.  I did notice that for the 2014 calendar you could download a Sun-Sat or a Mon-Sun calendar.