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Mother’s Day
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• Mothering Sunday is a time when children pay respect to their mothers.
• Children often give their mothers a gift and a card.
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• On Mother’s Day, many churches give the children in the congregation a little bunch of spring flowers to give to their mothers as a thank you for all their care and love throughout the year.
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• Mother’s Day is always on a Sunday.
• It is also known as Mothering Sunday
• In Britain, it is always the fourth Sunday of Lent.
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The History of Mother’s Day
• No one is absolutely certain exactly how the idea of Mothering Sunday began.
• However, it is known that on this day, about four hundred years ago, people made a point of visiting their nearest big church (the Mother Church).
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• People who visited their mother church would say they had gone "a mothering."
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The History of Mother’s Day
• Young British girls and boys 'in service' (maids and servants) were only allowed one day to visit their family each year. This was usually Mothering Sunday.
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• Flowers were traditional, as the young girls and boys would have to walk home to their village, and could gather them on their way home through the meadows.
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• Often the housekeeper or cook would allow the maids to bake a cake to take home for their mother.
• Sometimes a gift of eggs; or flowers from the garden (or hothouse) was allowed.
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Simnel Cake
• The most favoured cake was - as it still is in some families - the ‘Simnel Cake'.
• People began honouring both their mothers and the church
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• The Simnel cake is a fruit cake. A flat layer of marzipan (sugar almond paste) is placed on top of and decorated with 11 marzipan balls representing the 12 apostles minus Judas, who betrayed Christ.
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In America
• Mother’s Day is on 2nd May and is a national holiday
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• Whilst Mother's Day is celebrated on different days and for different reasons in many countries around the world, the central idea of honouring your mother is universal.
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Be good to your mum!