Mothering Sunday in United Kingdom, 22nd. March 2009
(Talk for Family Service in the Brecon Pesbyterian Church)
What do most people call this day? Mothers’ Day. But it’s not really Mothers’ Day, is it? Mothers’ Day is an American celebration which occurs on the second Sunday in May – it was started in 1914 by Anna Jarvis. What we have in Britain on this Sunday should really be called Mothering Sunday. This tradition goes back much further than Mothers’ Day. hundreds of years ago the fourth Sunday in Lent was called Refreshment Sunday. People used to fast for Lent, but half-way though they were allowed to have a little break. On this Sunday they could refresh themselves with a little bit of cake or something else they would not otherwise be allowed to have. (For the rest of Lent they would have no meat, no eggs, no rich foods…
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