When is Mother’s
Day 2017? The date changes in Britain every year. This year Mother’s Day will be
on Sunday March 26.
At its most basic,
Mothering Sunday (Mother’s Day is an Americanisation) is a day to give thanks
to your mother.
Why is it celebrated? While many might think the day was invented by commercial
entities, it is actually a Christian celebration dating back to the 16th
century.Back then,
Mothering Sunday was a chance for those who worked in servitude to go back home
to see their families and attend the church in their home town – or
‘mother church’.
Those who did so
were said to have gone ‘a mothering’ and the servants would pick
flowers to display at this mother church
The day gradually
disappeared until a vicar’s daughter, from Coddington,
Nottinghamshire, read an article about American activist Anna Jarvis who
was trying to reinstate the day in 1913.
Constance Smith
went on to push for a revival of Mothering Sunday and by 1938 it was being
celebrated all around the
country.
