Mothering Sunday is a feast celebrated by Catholics and Protestant Christians in England and other parts of the world. This is generally observed in British Church parishes, as well as across Britain and many Anglican parishes around the world, especially in Canada and Australia. It fell on the fourth Sunday in Lent, exactly three weeks before Easter. After being observed as the day on which people will visit their "mom" church, it has become an opportunity to honor the mothers of the children and give them gifts. It's more commonly called Mother's Day, even though the name actually belongs to an American vacation quite different from the original Mother's Day. In England and the Republic of Ireland, Mothering Sunday is celebrated in the same way as Mother's Day is celebrated in the United States.
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During the 16th century, people returned to their mother church for the service to be held on Sunday Laetare; in this context, the 'mother church' of a person is the church where one is baptized, or the local parish church, or the nearest cathedral (the last is the mother church of all the parish churches in a diocese). Whoever does this is usually said to have been a "mother", although whether this term precedes the obedience of Mothering Sunday is unclear. Later on, Mothering Sunday became the day when housemaids were given a day off to visit their mother church, usually with their own mother and other family members. Often the only time the whole family can gather together, because on other days they are forbidden to do so with conflicting working hours.
Children and teenagers who "serve" (as housemaids) are given holidays on that date so they can visit their families (or, initially, return to their "mother" church). Children will pick wild flowers along the way to be placed in church or given to their mothers. Finally, religious traditions evolve into the secular tradition of Mothering Sunday giving gifts to mothers.
In 1920 the habit of maintaining Mothering Sunday tended to decline in Ireland and continental Europe. In 1914, inspired by Anna Jarvis's efforts in the United States, Constance Penswick-Smith invented the Mothering Sunday Movement, and in 1921 he wrote a book advocating the rise of the festival; Constance is the daughter of the vicar of Coddington, Nottinghamshire, and there are memorials at the Coddington church. The Mothering Sunday tradition, still practiced by the Church of England and the Church of Ireland combined with new traditions imported and celebrated in the wider Catholic and secular society. UK-based merchants see commercial opportunities in holiday and relentlessly promote them in the UK; in the 1950s, it was celebrated throughout England.
People in Ireland and England celebrate Mothering Sunday on the fourth Sunday in Lent; the day is also sometimes referred to as Lent Sunday and is seen as the day when Lent's austerity is temporarily set aside.
Mothering Sunday remains in the calendar of some Canadian Anglican churches, especially those with strong English connections.
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Other names associated with the fourth week of Lent include Sunday Refresher, Pudding Pie Sunday (in Surrey, England), Middle-Lending Week , Simnel Sunday and Rose Sunday . Simnel Sunday is named after the practice of baking simo cake to celebrate family reunion during Lent austerity. Since traditionally there is a relaxation of the Lent vows on this particular Sunday to celebrate family and church fellowship, the name Sunday Refresher is sometimes used, though rarely today.
Rose Sunday is sometimes used as an alternative title for Laetare Sunday, as witnessed by the purple robe Prapaskah was replaced in some churches by the red. The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia confirms that "The Golden Rose, sent by the Pope to Catholic sovereignty, was once blessed today, and for this reason that day was sometimes called 'Dominika de Rosa'."
This Sunday is also known as "Sunday of the Five Loaves", from the traditional gospel reading for the day. Before the adoption of the modern "general" lectionaries, this week's Gospel reading of the Anglican Church, Roman Catholicism, the Western Orthodox Church, and the Old Catholic Church is the story of feeding the five thousand people (for example, the Anglican Church of the Common Prayer Book of John 6: 5-14).
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The Epistle for the Fourth Week in Lent as set out in the General Prayer Book and The 1962 Missal of Roman Catholic Church provides a special place for the theme of mother's love: Galatians 4:26 states that "Jerusalem is above free, which is the Mother of all of us."
Another tradition associated with Mothering Sunday is the practice of "cutting the church," in which the congregation forms a circle around their church building and, holding hands, embraces it.
For some Churches of England Church, it is the only day in Lent when marriage is celebrated.
During Sunday services in some churches, the children in the court were given a bunch of spring flowers to give to their mother.
Cake and bread
- The crown cake is a traditional confection associated with Mothering Sunday and Easter.
- Around the year 1600, when celebrations were only held in England and Scotland, different types of cakes were preferred.
- In the UK, "Mothering Buns" or "Mothering Sunday Buns" are made to celebrate. This sweetbread is given a layer of pink or white and a multi-colored sprinkling known as "hundreds and thousands" in the UK. They are not much made or presented today in the UK but in Australia they are a bread staple, not related to a particular celebration.
- In Northern England and Scotland, some prefer "Carlings", pancakes made of fried peas with butter.
See also
- Father's Day
- Take a vacation
- Laetare Sunday (cf. Gaudete Sunday)
- Matronalia, dedicated to the fertility of married women
- Mother's Day
References
External links
- Mothering Sunday on RE: Quest
- BBC Mothering Sunday
- Catholic Encyclopedia : "Laetare Sunday"
- How Mothering Sunday was revived in East Anglia
- Mothering Sunday (Woodlands Junior School, Tonbridge, Kent)
- Mothering Sunday (The Children's Society)
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