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Mothers Day 2010 UK or Mothering Sunday 2010 UK

Mothers Day is for telling your mum that you love her. Mothering Sunday is the same day. Everyone needs a little appreciation, so use Mothers Day to say thanks.

And if you happen to be on the Costa Blanca for Mothers Day, why not take her out on a lazy siesta Costa Blanca Boat Trip, she doesn't have to swim, and the skipper will be more than happy to feed her with refreshments!

Mothering Sunday 2010 UK and Mothers Day 2010 UK

Mothering Sunday or Mothers Day is a traditional Christian festival celebrated all over Europe. Mothers Day sometimes known as Mothering Sunday is used as a celebration of motherhood, and it's the same Mother's Day celebration that you may find in other countries.
Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday has probably been going since neolithic times; ok maybe not in exactly the same form. But it is clear that the Romans had a sort of Mothering Sunday or Mothers Day because they honoured the mother goddess Cybele and it's thought to have taken place during mid-March, so you could say Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday is much older than Christ.
Trivia team players take note: when the Roman Empire converted to Christianity, Mothering Sunday or Mothers Day celebrations became part of the liturgical calendar in the form of Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and the "mother church".
Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday continued to develop until the sixteenth century, when people would go "a-mothering" to the local church or more likely the nearest Cathedral for a service on Laetare Sunday. We'll never know for sure but this is could be the first time it was actually called Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday.
I've found this article about Costa Blanca Boat Trips which you can read too if you click on this text; if you're looking for a boat trip on the Costa Blanca, this will definitely give you the info you need. It's got nothing to do with Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday, but clicking on the link will prove if you are paying attention or not! Laetare Sunday was probably one of the few times the whole family could get together.
The Epistle for the fourth Sunday in Lent in the Book of Common Prayer gives a special place to the concept of maternal love: Galatians 4:26 says that "Jerusalem which is above is free; which is Mother of us all.", well they said "Mother" so that's good enough for me. They obviously meant Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday!
The other names tagged on to this celebration are Simnel Sunday, Refreshment Sunday and Rose Sunday. Simnel Sunday is when Christians bake Simnel cakes to mark the reunification of families during the lean times of Lent. So Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday would have been a chance to enjoy all that stuff you gave up for Lent; and that's why it was sometimes known as Refreshment Sunday; personally I prefer to call it Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday.
Rose Sunday is another title for Mothering Sunday or Mothers Day as well; regular church goers to different churches will notice that the purple robes of Lent are changed for rose-coloured robes. Originally that was all about the tradition of flowers that were distributed to all the mothers at the service, probably to encourage the young ones to have children, although later on, they were handed out to all women present.
In the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia it says that "the Golden Rose, which was sent by various Popes to Catholic Kings and Queens, was blessed around this time, and that's why the day was sometimes called 'Dominica de Rosa'; still sounds like Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday to me!"
Rose Sunday was also once known as "the Sunday of the Five Loaves", from the subject of the traditional Gospel reading for the day. Before polical correctness, the Gospel reading for Mothering Sunday or Mothers Day in the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Western-Rite Orthodox, and Old Catholic churches was the story of the feeding of the five thousand which is appropriate since mothers are responsible for feeding their families every day.
Another tradition associated with Mothering Sunday or Mothers Day is the almost pagan practice of "clipping the church", whereby the congregation form a ring around their church building and, holding hands, embrace it.
For some Church of England churches, it is the only day in Lent when marriages can be celebrated.
In later times, Mothering Sunday or Mothers Day was a day when domestic servants got a day off to visit their mothers and other family members.
Mothering Sunday or Mothers Day is still in the calendar of some Canadian Anglican churches, especially those with strong English connections.

An American view appears to be that the modern Mother's Day or Mothering Sunday holiday was created by Anna Jarvis in Grafton, West Virginia, as a day to honor mothers and motherhood.
That's a nice idea and I suppose she was responsible for it becoming an official holiday in the US, but it doesn't make her the founder of Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday. In my view, Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday was already fairly well established around the world in various forms.
Anna Jarvis's holiday eventually became so commercialized (no surprise there then!) that Anna Jarvis came to regard it as a "Hallmark Holiday" presumably referring to the Hallmark holiday that makes greetings cards for Mothers Day, Mothering Sunday, Birthdays, Christmas, etc. Anna eventually ended up opposing the holiday she had helped to create.
In 1912, Anna Jarvis managed to trademark the phrases "second Sunday in May" and "Mother's Day", and created the Mother's Day International Association.
"She was specific about the location of the apostrophe; it was to be a singular possessive for each family to honour their mother, not a plural possessive commemorating all mothers in the world."
That's a bit too deep for me, and probably went over the heads of most americans as well, who just like the rest of us, used Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday to say thanks or "I love you" to their mum regardless of how it was spelt.
This is also the spelling used by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in the law making official the holiday in the U.S., by the U.S. Congress on bills, and by other U.S. presidents on their declarations.
According to linguistic purists, Mothers Day is supposed to be spelt as in the singular possessive "Mother's Day", although "Mothers' Day" (plural possessive) is not unheard of. So I'll just call it Mothering Sunday then....
The US Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday official holiday idea was adopted by other countries and cultures.
Of course in some countries the concept of an official Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday holiday, was changed to suit the various religious and political conditions, so Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday was changed to more convenient dates, like Virgin Mary day in Catholic countries, or the birthday of the daughter of prophet Muhammad in Islamic countries - See! Moslems have Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday too!
Other countries like Bolivia used the date of a battle where women participated. Although I think that's really missing the point of Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday - because celebrating death in battle isn't quite how I would go about celebrating motherhood.

So now you know....there's a bit more to Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday than you probably thought.

Perfect for Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday

The Slanket is a gigantic fleece blanket with arms, so you can hold cups of tea, pick your nose, use the remote, or the phone, or use a laptop! Great for those who feel the cold or are trying to keep the heating bills low; feel cosy and warm under a lightweight Slanket. Take the Slanket on long car journeys or cosy up to a scary movie.

More importantly, on Mothers Day, or Mothering Sunday your mum can have a rest while the rest of the family do the cooking cleaning and making of cups of tea! While she sits in front of her favourite soap, or film and enjoys her day!

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