To ask why it is now Mother's Day

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AmazingGreatAunt · 14/03/2026 11:39

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.

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catsrus · 17/03/2026 22:47

cinquanta · 15/03/2026 23:46

My DF and FIL were the same.

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my dad was too 😆

EstoyRobandoSuCasa · 17/03/2026 23:20

HippityHoppityHay · 16/03/2026 19:19

That's also thanks to Constance Smith - she re-invented the forgotten religious feast day to mirror Anna Jarvis' new celebration of mothers.
She knew the only way to revive it was to link it to the much more popular Mother's Day. I'd prefer it we just followed the Americans on this as most countries in the world have done and celebrated it on the second Sunday in May for pragmatic reasons as well as keeping it separate from a misogynistic institution.

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Personally, I don't want the UK to copy everything the US does. I'd rather keep the UK date of Mothering Sunday/Mother's Day as it is.

janj52301 · 07/04/2026 09:30

I am fighting a loosing battle, I respond to every email I get in the lead up (I do competitons so get hundreds) saying no it's Mothering Sunday. My daughter couldn't find a Mothering Sunday card this year, she wrote inside a blank one

tamade · 07/04/2026 10:01

KnickerlessParsons · 14/03/2026 11:59

“Mothers’” to be correct, not “Mother’s”

Most of us have only one Mother?

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