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	..TRADITIONS UK - Mothers' Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mothers' Day in the UK is not celebrated on the same date as in the USA, as it is yet another of the days linked to the moveable feast of Easter.
		The earliest festivals for honouring the mother figure are pre-Christian in origins, relating to the mother-goddess of pagan religion and entwined with the springtime cycle of new life and rebirth.
		Mothers' Day, as Mothering Sunday is now more commonly called, is the day when Mum gets breakfast in bed, however inexpertly prepared by the children, grown-up children visit their mother bearing gifts, and flower-growers and greetings card manufacturers get rich.
	www.geocities.com /traditions_uk/MothersDay.html (281 words)

	V I R T U A L B A N G A L O R E . C O M - Bangalore: Events & Festivals
		Anna heard her mother say many times that she hoped "sometime, somewhere, someone will found a Mother's Day." She was convinced that if the family honoured their mother on a special day, the fighting and hatred would end.
		Mother's Day is celebrated in many different countries, and not all of them celebrate it on the same date or in the same manner.
		Mother's Day in France is celebrated much like a family birthday, and it occurs on the last Sunday in May. The entire extended family gathers around the family dining table for dinner, and at the end of the meal a beautiful cake is presented to the mother.
	www.virtualbangalore.com /EveFst/MothersD.php (1199 words)

	Mothers Day ( Mothering Sunday) in England 2006
		Mothering Sunday is always the fourth Sunday of Lent.
		No one is absolutely certain exactly how the idea of Mothering Sunday began, but we know that on this day, about four hundred years ago, people who lived in little villages made a point of going not to their local church but to the nearest big church.
		Mothers Day in America is a fixed date and does not change from year to year like Mothering Sunday does in England.
	www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /customs/easter/mothers.htm (580 words)

	BBC - essex Features - Mothering Sunday - a history
		‘Mothering Sunday’ or ‘Mothers’ Day’ – you may think that the two terms are interchangeable, but in fact they refer to two different days and have very different histories.
		From about the 1600's, young men and women who were apprentices or servants returned to their homes on Mothering Sunday, bringing their mothers parcels of food, or Simnel cake (sometimes called ‘mothering’ cake) that was given to them by their masters in the big house where they normally lived and worked.
		Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the Battle hymn of the Republic) as a day dedicated to peace.
	www.bbc.co.uk /essex/features/mothering_sunday_2005/mothering_sunday_history.shtml (688 words)

	BBC - Religion & Ethics - Mothering Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday of Lent.
		Most Sundays in the year churchgoers in England worship at their nearest parish or "daughter church".
		And most historians think that it was the return to the "Mother" church which led to the tradition of children, particularly those working as domestic servants, or as apprentices, being given the day off to visit their mother and family.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/christianity/features/mday/index.shtml (381 words)

	The History of Mothering Sunday
		Mother's Day, or Mothering Sunday, is always celebrated in the UK on the fourth Sunday of Lent, but as the dates vary as to when Easter and Lent fall, the Sunday chosen may vary.
		In the UK, Mothering Sunday stems from a tradition dating back as far as the 1600s to a day when children, mainly daughters, in domestic service, were given a day off to go home and visit their mother and family.
		In fact, the second Sunday of May has become the most popular day of the year to dine out, and telephone lines record their highest traffic, as children take advantage of the day to express appreciation to and for their mothers.
	www.i-candi.co.uk /history-of-mothers-day.htm (485 words)

	Mothering Sunday: What to buy your mother on Mother's Day - Mothering Sunday
		Traditionally, Mothering Sunday was a day when children, mainly daughters, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother and family.
		She felt children often neglected to appreciate their mother enough while the mother was still alive and hoped that Mother's Day would increase respect for parents and strengthen family bonds.
		In the church calendar, Mothering Sunday or Mid-Lent Sunday as it is also known, commemorates the banquet given by Joseph to his brethren.
	wwp.mothering-sunday.co.uk (1052 words)

	Ireland Now Mothering Sunday
		Mother's Day, or Mothering Sunday, is quite different from the American Mother's Day and is not celebrated on the same day.
		Mothering Sunday is mid-Lent Sunday, the halfway point when the faithful were suffering under the rigours of the Lenten observance, therefore as a gesture of encouragement the church decreed the day as one of special relaxation.
		Mothering Sunday seems to spring from the medieval custom of visiting the mother church on mid-Lent Sunday while at the same time there were family reunions with special fare.
	www.ireland-now.com /mothersday.html (169 words)

	The Observer \| UK News \| Why mothers deserve a break today
		In spite of new technology, disposable nappies and the claimed advent of 'new man', one in four British mothers thinks being a parent is significantly harder than it was for their own mothers.
		Mothers are four times more worried that their children are in danger from road traffic than that they might become victims of paedophiles.
		The figures suggest mothers have a far firmer grasp on the realities of childhood in modern Britain than those newspapers which have encouraged the notion of a universal paedophile menace.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,925633,00.html (731 words)

	Crowds and flowers at cathedral for Mothering Sunday
		Southwark Cathedral was crowded for Mothering Sunday when flowers were blessed and distributed to children and students to give to their mothers.
		Many of the sunday school members were able to present the flowers to their mothers in the congregation.
		Mothering Sunday, which was suitably sunny, is also mid-Lent Sunday when both mothers and the mother church -the cathedral- are prayed for and honoured.
	www.london-se1.co.uk /news/view.php?ArtID=490 (188 words)

	Definitions: Mothering Sunday
		Today Mothering Sunday is a popular day when Christians choose to use the occasion to think about all things which concern motherhood.
		Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday in Lent and it is a time of special for thanksgiving.
		Sunday is the one day of joy in Lent, when flowers abound in all churches and when people are allowed a time off from the penitential season.
	www.thisischurch.com /christianinfo/motheringsunday.htm (254 words)

	English Culture: Mothering Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mothering Sunday falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent.
		It is traditionally a time for children to give gifts, flowers and cards to their mothers and for the whole family to spend time together.
		Another popular ceremony on this day was church-clipping (meaning to clasp or tightly grip the church), when people would express their love for their house of worship by forming a circle and walking round the building holding hands.
	englishculture.allinfoabout.com /features/mothering-sunday.html (415 words)

	Mothering Sunday Illumination Onward Mothering Sunday Effects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The more new way of exaltation mothers began in UK in the 1600s where Mothering Sunday was observed on the fourth Sunday of Lent.
		In the County of Lancashire, fig pie was traditionally served on Mothering Sunday in March.
		Mothering Magazine reports that there is something you can do if you feel like Sara and Dr. Susan Linn, who ranted in her Blogging Baby post about why kids would ever need TV to develop their sense of humor.
	motheringsunday.qophsunday.com (1029 words)

	mothering sunday
		England observed "Mothering Sunday", or the "Mid-Lent-Sunday, on the fourth Sunday in Lent.
		Of having every Mid-Lent Sunday celebrated as a day of family feast and get-together is reported to be a tradition during the 17th century.
		Back home they presented their mothers with a cake and little nosegays of violets and other wild flowers gathered in the hedgerows as they walked along the country lanes.
	www.theholidayspot.com /mothersday/history/mothering_sunday.htm (520 words)

	Mothering Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Most mothers will tell you - and perhaps a mother should be preaching this sermon not me - that even in the womb the baby becomes a person - kicking and coughing, sleeping and listening to music - liking Mozart and hating the Beatles or the other way round.
		it is the story of a mother - perhaps a young mother - who faces the brutal murder of her new-born child.
		As we know, the story works out in the end - Pharaoh’s daughter had pity on the child and protected him - perhaps she is the other unsung hero of the story - a foreigner, the daughter of the tyrant - another woman.
	home.clara.net /pkennington/sermons/Kennington/mothering.htm (1193 words)

	Mothering Sunday England - Mother's Day History- Mother's day In England
		The early Christians in England celebrated the Mother's festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter) to honor Mary, the mother of Christ.
		People working out of their homes were expected to return to the "mother" church (the spiritual power that gave them life and protected them from harm).
		Today, the Mother's Day is a day when children give presents, flowers, and home made cards to their mothers to express their love.
	www.dayformothers.com /mothers-day-history/mothering-sunday.html (198 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| The mother of all days
		It is important to distinguish Mothering Sunday, which falls tomorrow and marks the mid-point in Lent, from its more recent incarnation as Mother's Day, largely a mishmash of sentiment, guilt and a bonded debt to commerce.
		Firstly, mothering does not always come from nature, as any fostered or adopted child can testify: Mothering Sunday is thus a reminder of the priority of nurture over nature.
		Correspondingly, terms like "mother", "nurse", "breast", "womb" and "feed" were words that carried a particular authority for religious leaders that transcended gender, for they were linked to education, formation and the very life of faith.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,664400,00.html (680 words)

	Mothering Sunday
		Mothering Sunday actually refers to the "Mother Church".
		It is early on Mothering Sunday morning in St Hilary's..
		After the service all the children were allowed to take bunches home to their mothers and other lady relatives in their families.
	www.callnetuk.com /home/sjprice/sthilarys/motheringsunday.html (808 words)

	Human Flower Project :: Mothering Sunday
		“Every Midlent Sunday is a great day at Worcester, when all the children and god-children meet at the head and cheife of the family and have a feast.
		Mothering Sunday as it’s now called, is perhaps the biggest floral holiday in England, with all the cards, florists’ bouquets and other gifty fol-de-rol of Mothers Day in the US.
		Originally, it was the occasion for parishoners to head back to their “mother churches”—the cathedrals of their youth or churches where they were baptized.
	www.humanflowerproject.com /index.php/weblog/comments/349 (587 words)

	Saint Mary’s Church Journal — Mothering Sunday 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A 'mothering cake' would be given to mothers by their children.
		The Sunday is also known as 'refreshment Sunday' — a day of refreshment in the middle of Lent when the Lenten discipline could be relaxed.
		While Mothering Sunday has been taken over by the card industry as 'mothers' day', as the Curate, Father Andreas Loewe, told Saint Mary's congregation on 10 March, the day is all about showing true love for our mothers.
	www.stmarys-slough.org.uk /6/13-mothers.htm (171 words)

	Virtual Cards for Virtually All Occasions: Mothering Sunday
		This special Sunday was known by a number of names, Refreshment or Laerte Sunday, and Mothering Sunday; this latter because people made special visits to their Mother Church, (which may have been some distance away), to bring special gifts in celebration.
		So the two celebrations of Motherhood have eventually merged, and Mothering Sunday is recorded in the mid-17th century as a day when 'when all the children and grandchildren ' were said 'to meet at the head and chiefe of the family, and have a feast'.
		Simnel cakes have never lost their appeal (although they have now become an Easter delicacy), but the observance of Mothering Sunday, which was reached its peak during mid-Victorian times, was said to be 'declining' even in its Herefordshire heartland by 1912, and to be 'virtually extinct' by 1935.
	www.cybercelebrations.com /VirtualCards/mothers_day_cards.shtml (632 words)

	A Homily for Mothering Sunday
		This Sunday, mid-Lent Sunday, is known in the English-speaking world as “Mothering Sunday.” There are many customs associated with Mothering Sunday, which was and is the English Mother’s Day.
		Hagar, the Egyptian slave-girl, was the mother of Ishmael; Sarah, Abraham’s wife, was the mother of Isaac.
		As Nicodemus says, we cannot, when we are grown, enter again into our mother’s wombs to be born, but that is not necessary, because our new birth is not birth according to the flesh (according to the way of the world), but birth in the Spirit (according to God’s promise).
	pages.prodigy.net /dmahoney/lent04c.htm (1372 words)

	Origins of Mothering Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, unlike the festival on the second Sunday in May, created in America in 1914, our Mothers' Day or Mothering Sunday has been celebrated on the fourth Sunday in Lent since the early church.
		Centuries ago it was considered important for people to return to their home or 'mother' church once a year, which inevitably became an occasion for family reunions.
		Mothering Sunday was also known as Refreshment Sunday, because the fasting rules for Lent were relaxed on that day.
	parish.ashtead.org /east04/mother.htm (201 words)

	Lent 4. YearC Mothering Sunday 2 April 2000
		To us this Sunday is best known as "Mothering Sunday" because it is said that today’s Epistle in the Book of Common Prayer, tells of "Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the Mother of us all." (Gal 4.25).
		The origins of Mothering Sunday are in England.
		The hunger in the human heart for Mothering is expressed by Isaiah: " As a Mother comforts her child so I will comfort you, says the Lord", (Ch 66.13).
	creggan.armagh.anglican.org /lent4c.html (671 words)

	Mothering Sunday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In contrast to Mother's Day, Mothering Sunday is not a celebration of motherhood.
		During the 16th century, people returned to their "mother church" for a service to be held on the 4th Sunday of Lent.
		It was often the only time that whole families could gather together, if prevented by conflicting working hours.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mothering_Sunday (107 words)

	Mothering Sunday in Ireland - World Cultures European (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the USA amd other countries, it is celebrated on the second Sunday in May. Whenever you honor the matriarch of your family, the origins and customs of her special day are fascinating.
		The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring festivities of ancient Greece, in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods.
		Mothers need a hot bath and a nap every 100 miles, a baby-sitter and a night out every 1,000 miles, and a live in baby-sitter with a one week vacation every 10,000 miles.
	www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /ACalend/MothersDay.html (1149 words)

	Mothering Sunday
		In the 16th century, the Church required that the people returned to their ‘mother’ church or cathedral on the fourth Sunday in Lent for that day’s service.
		This was also on the second Sunday in May (the second anniversary of her Mother’s death).
		However, the commercialisation of the holiday began almost immediately and so angered Anna Jarvis that, in 1923, she filed a lawsuit to try to stop a Mother’s Day celebration and was even arrested for breach of the peace when she attempted to stop the selling of carnations on the day.
	www.old-forge.net /motheringsunday.html (599 words)

	Mothering Sunday
		I managed to discover that in days gone by it was considered important for people to return to their home or "mother" church once a year.
		So each year in the middle of Lent, everyone would visit their "mother" church, or the main church or Cathedral of the area. Inevitably the return to the "mother" church became an occasion for family reunions when children who were working away returned home.
		For mothers too who have lost a child, or whose child is far away, today is not without pain – let’s spare a thought especially for those mothers whose sons are fighting in Iraq, and for those on both sides of the conflict who have lost sons even in this last week.
	www.ascensionbalhamhill.org.uk /Resources/MotheringSunday.htm (467 words)

	Mothering Sunday
		The true name for ‘Mothers Day’ in the UK is Mothering Sunday and was first celebrated in Britain at the beginning of the 17th century.
		It always falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent; however, as the dates of Lent and Easter move every year, the actual Sunday chosen to celebrate this special day also varies from year to year.
		For the fact seekers this Sunday in the UK is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday.
	www.stockhillhouse.co.uk /mothering_sunday.htm (238 words)

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