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o.k..I know I'll get a lot of flack for my opinion but here goes.Why do we need so many made up holidays.Today is mothers day,does that mean I'm suppose to love my wife and my mom more today then the other 364 days of the year.Please explain to me how that's possible.If someone has to buy stuff to show someone that they love them then there's something wrong with this picture.Mother's day Father's day, Secretarie's day,grandparent's day pretty soon there'll doggy day all brought to you by the greeting card manufacturers.Don't get me wrong.I love my wife and my mom (may she rest in peace)with all my heart,so I did all the mothers day stuff.But not everybody has the means to do so,just adds more stress to a lot of peoples lives.Christmas,Easter etc. o.k.the rest of it is just a way to make a buck by the for mentioned greeting card types.

Wasn't it derived from mothering sunday?

firth4eva wrote:Wasn't it derived from mothering sunday?

Mothering Sunday did not begin as a celebration of motherhood, but a synonym of Laetare Sunday in the Christian liturgical calendar. During the sixteenth century, people returned to their "mother church" for a service to be held on the fourth Sunday of Lent. This was either a large local church, or more often the nearest Cathedral. Anyone who did this was commonly said to have gone "a-mothering", although whether this preceded the term Mothering Sunday is unclear. It was often the only time that whole families could gather together, if prevented by conflicting working hours.

Started off as something else.Greeting card companies picked it up and ran with it.

You need more blanks in the OP. The second is fine though, and I agree with your general gist.

edsdad wrote:

firth4eva wrote:Wasn't it derived from mothering sunday?

Mothering Sunday did not begin as a celebration of motherhood, but a synonym of Laetare Sunday in the Christian liturgical calendar. During the sixteenth century, people returned to their "mother church" for a service to be held on the fourth Sunday of Lent. This was either a large local church, or more often the nearest Cathedral. Anyone who did this was commonly said to have gone "a-mothering", although whether this preceded the term Mothering Sunday is unclear. It was often the only time that whole families could gather together, if prevented by conflicting working hours.

Started off as something else.Greeting card companies picked it up and ran with it.

That applies to the Brit(& elsewhere?) "Mothering Sunday", which as you sy is at the end of Lent. It was also, later, a traditional time for apprentices to visit home.

Although we now tend to call "Mothering Sunday" "Mother's Day", it is a separate thing from the U.S> "Mother's Day", which is today, and was I think invented (along with Secretaries Day (now apparently "Administrative Executive Week"), Grandparents day, Second Cousin twice Removed Day, etc., by Hallmark and friends.