To ask why it is now Mother's Day

[AmazingGreatAunt]

instead of Mothering Sunday?
Is this a further sign of the secularising of the UK in general or just the assimilation of additional transatlantic habits?
I live in a European country that has a Mother's Day at the beginning of May, which has nothing to do with returning to your home church.

Of course you can have pancake day every single day you choose but shrove Tuesday only once a year. Enjoy.

I’m surprised there are a fair few people complaining about commercialisation, for most people I know it’s the least commercialised holiday - homemade cards predominate, little rituals of appreciation like badly made breakfast in bed, maybe a bunch of supermarket daffodils. I think it’s a brilliant thing to teach children to show appreciation for the largely invisible at best and denigrated at worst work that mothers do, and having a common day to do that gives a nice structure for families, schools and the wider community to do so.

I don’t know how old you are but it’s possible your grandmother, who would have been in her 30s? in the 1950s, when the terminology started to change, adopted the ‘new’ name for the day.

Mothering Sunday dates back to the 16thC but eventually merged with the US Mother’s day which started, I understand, in the early 1900s. Interestingly though, Mother’s Day attached itself to the date of Mothering Sunday which is linked to Lent.

I don’t have a problem with either or both being celebrated but, as I have said, I like people to understand origins of festivals, celebrations, etc. I feel the understanding gives them more meaning.

The 4th Sunday in Lent is Mothering Sunday. If I could find a nice Mothering Sunday card I would get it, otherwise I’d get my mum a Mothers’ Day card. My mum was Catholic.

You can probably get them in a Catholic Church or online.

It’s Mother’s Day - to honour your own Mother not all mothers.

This is exactly what my point is. I don’t have a problem with people having pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, it’s traditional.

However, I would like them to understand why they are eating pancakes; otherwise, what’s the point?

Why are we eating pancakes today ? I don’t know, shut up and eat them….

It's Mothering Sunday if you are the sort of person who also insists it's Father Christmas and not Santa Claus or All Hallows Eve instead of Hallowe'en.

I've just realised I have to call my mum tomorrow, thanks 🙃

I'm Irish (and old) and never heard of Mothering Sunday, except when English people said it.

I am that person and I’m 54.

I have always called it Mother’s Day. I hate the day, it feels forced and puts pressure on people. I have told my family to not bother with it.

Nobody has the right to tell you you can’t have pancakes any day of the year but the point is that they are traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday.

If you ‘celebrate’ pancake day, what are you celebrating?

I'm in my 40s. What is your point?

🙄🙄. I think you will find there are differing opinions on where the apostrophe should be placed.

Father’s Day is a Hallmark holiday, but Mother’s Day is a religious day (whether or not people celebrate it that way doesn’t matter, that’s the origin).

It all makes sense now why my mother insists in calling it mothering Sunday as she hated her own mother and wouldn't have celebrated mother's day.

I’m middle aged and have never called it Mothering Sunday. Who gives a fuck though, call it whatever you like?!

I’m 57 and have always called it Mother’s Day

I agree, I was born in the 70s and it was always Mothering Sunday. I still hunt down a Mothering Sunday card for my mum.

It's all to do with selling a myth. Totally pointless.

I mean, I'm nearly 40 and I call it mother's day. So do all of my family, including my parents in their 60's. As does my wife and all of her family. I've heard the term mothering Sunday but honestly cannot ever recall hearing anyone actually say it out loud.
But reading a few comments am I to assume it's actually a religious thing? I had no idea! Is Fathers day a religious thing as well?

I agree with the first bit, but as my mother died before I went to primary school and my father remarried when I was in my 20s, I prefer "Mothering Sunday". (BTW, I'm under 60 and I've nearly always called it that.)

Even adults who are not mothers receive daffodils, including men? Why? Definitely wasn’t this way growing up in CofE congregation 40 years ago.

From Google - The correct, official, and most widely used spelling is Mother's Day (singular possessive), which signifies a day honoring each person's individual mother.