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Concept
Mothering Sunday
Résumé
Mothering Sunday is a day honouring mother churches, the church where one is baptised and becomes "a child of the church", celebrated since the Middle Ages in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries on the fourth Sunday in Lent. On Mothering Sunday, Christians have historically visited their mother church—the church in which they received the sacrament of baptism.
Alternative explanation: the notion that the origin of Mothering Sunday was as a day honouring the mother church is simply incorrect. For centuries 25th March has been kept by the Catholic Church as a celebration of the Annunciation to Mary by the Archangel Gabriel that she was to become the mother of Jesus. Appropriately, this date was chosen because it is nine months before 25th December, traditionally celebrated as the date of the birth of Jesus - nine months being the length of time between conception and birth. The Feast of the Annunciation was celebrated as far back as the 4th or 5th century. It is no coincidence that over time, 25th March - or the nearest Sunday - became a celebration of all motherhood, and this tradition continues in the United Kingdom and some other contries.
Constance Adelaide Smith revived its modern observance beginning in 1913 to honour Mother Church, 'mothers of earthly homes', the Virgin Mary (mother of Jesus), and Mother Nature. It gained popularity in response to the originally American Mother's Day. The holiday is often known as "Mother's Day" in the United Kingdom, and has become a secular celebration of mothers and motherhood.
Mothering Sunday coincides with Laetare Sunday, also called Mid-Lent Sunday or Refreshment Sunday, a day of respite from fasting halfway through the penitential season of Lent. Its association with mothering originates in the texts read during the Mass in the Middle Ages, appearing in the lectionary in sources as old as the Murbach lectionary from the 8th century. These include several references to mothers and metaphors for mothers.
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