Mothering Sunday

Psalmus: Laetatus sum in his quae dicta sunt mihi: in domum Domini ibimus.Commentators of the period associate this with the personification of the Church as the Bride of Christ or with the Virgin Mary.[12] Anyone who did this was commonly said to have gone 'mothering', a term recorded by 1644:[13] Every Midlent Sunday is a great day at Worcester, when all the children and godchildren meet at the head and cheife of the family and have a feast.[4] This book has a series of four chapters outlining the different aspects of motherhood that the day should honour beyond a strictly biological one: By the 1950s, the occasion was celebrated across the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.[3] In modern Britain, 'Mother's Day' has become another term for Mothering Sunday in commercial contexts due to American influence, but it continues to be held during Lent.[15] The holiday has also gained secular observance in Britain as a celebration of motherhood, following the American tradition, rather than its original religious meaning.
On Mothering Sunday, people historically have visited the church in which they received the Christian sacrament of baptism . [ 1 ] [ 3 ]
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