Sunday 9th May is Mother's Day here in Australia and a number of other
countries including New Zealand, the US and Canada. So this is a gentle
reminder to spoil your Mum on Sunday.
Wikipedia tells me that in Europe there were several long standing
traditions where a specific
Sunday was set aside to honor motherhood and mothers such as Mothering
Sunday.
Mothering Sunday celebrations are part of the liturgical calendar in
several Christian denominations, including Anglicans, and in the
Catholic calendar is marked as Laetare Sunday,
the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and your "mother"
church (the main church of the area). Historians think that children
who served in houses were given a day off on that date so they could
visit their families. The children would pick wild flowers along the
way to place them on the church or to give them to their mothers.
However, if you know anything more about the origins of Mother's Day, I
love to hear more!
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