Did you know?
During the 16th century, Christians returned to their local mother churches for a service held on Laetare Sunday (the 4th Sunday in Lent). Your mother church was either the church where you were baptised or the local parish church. Anyone who did this was commonly said to have gone ‘mothering‘.
Did any of you go mothering at the weekend?
This Christian holiday has also gained secular observance in Britain as a celebration of motherhood, following the American tradition, rather than its original religious meaning. We celebrated both at school and the children made cards to give thanks to the ladies in their lives that mother them. Our pandas and snow leopards invited their special ladies in to school to thank them with a mother’s day tea party. The other classes gave beautiful cards.
Proverbs 31:28 – “Her children arise and call her blessed.”