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Mothering Sunday
Mother's Day in Britain and Ireland, the fourth Sunday of Lent, with posies of daffodils.
What happens
In Britain and Ireland Mother's Day is Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent, three weeks before Easter. It began as a day to visit the mother church, and servants given the day off picked wild flowers on the walk home for their mothers. Churches still hand small posies to children to give away. Because it falls in March, the flowers are those of early spring: daffodils above all, with violets and primroses.
The flowers
More flowers and customs of Mothering Sunday
Decoration
DecorationOriginal text by the Phool desk, written with AI assistance. Background: "Mothering Sunday" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If we have something wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Narcissus: Uberprutser, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sweet Violet: Fritz Geller-Grimm, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Mothering Sunday: Jonathunder, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mother's Day: Dave Parker, CC BY 2.0, source
- Primrose: mattbuck ( category ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source