Why does mother day change

The food item traditionally associated with Mothering Sunday is Simnel cake - a type of fruit cake with two layers of almond paste one on the top and one in the middle. These days, Simnel cakes are more usually linked with Easter. Traditionally churches hold Mothering Sunday services and flowers are given out to children to give to their mums. Mother's Day Send us your messages! Mother's Day presents you can make at home.

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Historians believe it evolved from the 16th-century Christian practice of visiting mothers in the season of Lent. The date changes every year because it is linked to Easter, and Easter varies depending on the lunar calendar.

Since then, it enjoyed a publicity boost in when the wartime government used the celebration to support their policy to encourage larger families, with all mothers being honoured including mothers of smaller families. Stage and screen. Birds and the bees. March 25th or the nearest Sunday is nine months before December 25th you work it out It was traditionally a day off for servants, who could use it to return home and visit their mothers, since they wouldn't get to see them during the rest of the year, on average.

Since Christianity in Britain is a lot older than some American woman who was born in the 19th century, I'll stick with Mothering Sunday, thanks.

Jac, Oxford, UK Our day, which is sometimes still called "Mothering Sunday", is very old and was originally a Church service to celebrate motherhood and the birth of young - it's got rather more to do with spring and rebirth than the American "Mothers Day", which I believe was started by one particular woman in the late 19th or early 20th century, because she and greetings card manufacturers felt that mothers deserved a special day.

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