The festival of Mothering Sunday.

Mothering Sunday is a Christian festival celebrated around Europe. It is also called Mother’s Day in UK and usually that day is celebrated on Sunday.

That day is always celebrated the fourth Sunday of Lent in UK. (In Spain as we know it is celebrated the first Sunday of May). So every year Mothering Sunday is celebrated in different dates, sometimes also it is celebrated in different months.

Mothering Sunday has been celebrated in the UK since at least the 16th century. There is a story behind Mothering Sunday.

That day was also known as ‘Refreshment Sunday’, ‘Mid-Lent Sunday’ and ‘Pudding Pie Sunday’. In that day which is in Lent the fasting rules were relaxed in honour of the ‘Feeding of the Five Thousand’, a story in the Christian Bible.

No one knows absolutely certain how the name of the Mothering Sunday began. However on theory is that the celebration could have been adopted from a Roman Spring festival, Mother Goddes.
Mothering Sunday became a celebration of motherhood although in countries other than UK and Ireland that other holiday has other origins.

In that day children give their mothers a gift and a lovely card. Is mother’s day so their children pay respect to their respective mothers.

Many churches give the children a little bunch of spring flowers to give to their mothers as a thank you for all they love, care and in fact for all the things they do for them.