The Church of the Ascension
A Parish of the Anglican Catholic Church
in the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic States
13941 Braddock Road
Centreville, VA 20120
(703) 830-3176
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Kalendar/Service and Activity Schedule
Why we spell Kalendar with a "K"
In case you are wondering why we are
spelling calendar with a "K", it is because
this is the ecclesiastical version. The
word calendar comes from the late Latin
"kalendrium" which in turn comes from
the Latin "kalends/calends", meaning the
first day of the month in the ancient
Roman calendar. The first of the month -
the kalends - was the time that
payments of interest were normally due
and "kalendrium" was the name given to
an account book used to record the
details of such transactions. It is as a
result of this connection that
"kalendar/calendar" came to refer to the
orderly arrangement of time as we now
know it, but the established church
retained the older "K" spelling to
distinguish their kalendar from an
ordinary list of events. In other words, a
kalendar is simply a church calendar!
May 2013
June 2013