Ohio Yearly Meeting Calendar Index

Date Names

The common names of days of the week and months of the year,such as "Sunday" and "January", were adopted in honor of pagan deities.  Friends have traditionally rejected such vocabulary and have called the days of the week and the months of the year by their numbers, thus:

First Day (sunday)                                First Month (january)                            Seventh Month (july)
Second Day (monday)                          Second Month (february)                      Eighth Month (august)
Third Day (tuesday)                              Third Month (march)                             Ninth Month (september)
Fourth Day (wednesday)                       Fourth Month (april)                             Tenth Month (october)
Fifth Day (thursday)                               Fifth Month (may)                                Eleventh Month (november)
Sixth Day (friday)                                  Sixth Month (june)                                Twelfth Month (december)
Seventh Day (saturday)

It is interesting that, in the 20th Century, Friends began accepting use of the common date names, feeling that any pagan meaning has been forgotten, while early in the 21st, most of us write (or type) dates using their number designations.   Perhaps the Quaker usage will catch on in common speech as well.

2009 Ohio Yearly Meeting Agenda and Registration Information

2010

First Month
Second Month
Third Month
Fourth Month
Fifth Month
Sixth Month
Seventh Month
Eighth Month
Ninth Month
Tenth Month
Eleventh Month
Twelfth Month

2011

First Month

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