Mothering Sunday - The Early Mother's Day
During the 1600's in England many young men and women lived away from home
as live-in servants for the rich and ruling classes. On the fourth Sunday
of lent it was required by the church that people returned to worship at the
Church where they were baptised, this was, of course, also the church near the
family home. As this was often a significant journey it became a time of
reunion with the family. People returning to their Mother Church took gifts
home and gave them to their mothers. They were often gifts of food and
drink to be consumed after the passing of lent.
As the power of the Church
declined the festival lived on as a family reunion - Mother Church Day became
Mothering Sunday - a day to honour and celebrate our own Mothers.
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