All about Mothers's Day - 14th February
This year, in 2008 Mother's Day falls on the 2nd of March.
We all know that Mother’s Day is celebrated to honour and show appreciation to your Mum, for all her hard work and care throughout the years, but where did Mothering Sunday originate?
Mothering Sunday was a day in lent when the regular lent rules were relaxed - this is supposed to be due to honouring the feeding of the five thousand. It was known as 'Refreshment Sunday' and would have been a welcome break from the firm lent rules.
Over 400 years ago people started to use the day to go to the main church in their area rather than the smaller local church - the larger churches or cathedrals would have been known as the ‘mother church’ as all other churches were belonging to it.
Visiting the mother church would have been known as 'mothering'.
It was also a day when people in service could visit their family and they would take a cake and flowers with it being springtime and there'd be plenty of flowers about - Simmel cakes were very traditional to take.
These visits back to Mothers have led to the traditions we know for Mother’s day - that is to take a card and flowers back to your mum.
It is a great excuse to buy your mum some flowers and let her know just what she means to you!