2007-03-02 08:20:42 · 17 answers · asked by Jarlena86 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
Agreed on the hallmark holiday thing, but it is still wonderful to celebrate our mothers on the 18th.
If nothing else iggy Hallmark and write a note instead of a card!
--That Cheeky Lad
2007-03-04 19:59:32 · answer #1 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mothering Sunday (also called Lady day) celebrates the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Supposed to be the day on which the Angel Gabriel told her she was 'with child'. This is 25th March and Mother's Day should be celebrated on the following Sunday. These days it is often moved if it is too close to Easter - presumably according to the desires of greetings card manufacturers. That would explain why, this year, it's March 18th. Which isn't too convenient for the Irish, since that's the day after St. Patrick's Day.
You can't please all of the people all of the time.
2007-03-02 17:13:49 · answer #2 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure that by the time I've posted this, you'd already have other people who answered your question, so I'll go further by giving you some trivia Q and A's related to Mother's Day.
In 2007, Mothering Sunday falls on 18 March.
Why is Mothering Sunday on different days each year?
Mothering Sunday is not a fixed day because it is always the middle Sunday in Lent (which lasts from Ash Wednesday to the day before Easter Sunday).
The History behind Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday was also known as 'Refreshment Sunday' or 'Mid-Lent Sunday'. It was often called Refreshment Sunday because the fasting rules for Lent were relaxed, in honour of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, a story in the Christian Bible.
No one is absolutely certain exactly how the idea of Mothering Sunday began, but we know that on this day, about four hundred years ago, people who lived in little villages made a point of going not to their local church but to the nearest big church. To what was called the Mother Church. And some would go to the nearest city to worship in the cathedral. (A cathedral is a very large church and the 'mother church' of all other churches in that area or 'diocese'. Canterbury Cathedral is pictured below)
People who visited their mother church would say they had gone "a mothering." Young English girls and boys 'in service' were only allowed one day to visit their family each year. This was usually Mothering Sunday. Often the housekeeper or cook would allow the maids to bake a cake to take home for their mother. Sometimes a gift of eggs; or flowers from the garden (or hothouse) was allowed. Flowers were traditional, as the young girls and boys would have to walk home to their village, and could gather them on their way home through the meadows
2007-03-02 16:27:44 · answer #3 · answered by DeN 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sunday 18th March
2007-03-02 19:02:14 · answer #4 · answered by paisleybuddie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sunday 18th March
2007-03-02 16:23:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the 18th March
2007-03-02 16:36:33 · answer #6 · answered by Rory C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mother's Day is the Hallmark Holiday
Mothering Sunday is the real Holiday
Both on the same day however!
2007-03-03 05:34:07 · answer #7 · answered by Paul G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
18th March
2007-03-02 16:23:55 · answer #8 · answered by hec1980 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
18th March
2007-03-02 16:30:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
18th March. It crept up on me too! The real question is what to buy as a present.
2007-03-02 16:27:59 · answer #10 · answered by missBambi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋