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Mothering Sunday is a day honouring mother churches, [1] the church where one is baptised and becomes "a child of the church", celebrated since the Middle Ages [2] in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries on the fourth Sunday in Lent. On Mothering Sunday, Christians have historically visited their mother church—the ...
Laetare Sunday (Church Latin: ; Classical Latin: [lae̯ˈtaːre]; English: / l iː ˈ t ɛər i /) is the fourth Sunday in the season of Lent, in the Western Christian liturgical calendar. Traditionally, this Sunday has been a day of celebration within the austere period of Lent.
Primarily celebrated in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe, Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday of Lent, according to the BBC. While similar to Mother’s Day in that it celebrates maternal ...
Catholic and Orthodox Christians have their own set of children's prayers, often invoking Mary, Mother of Jesus, angels, or the saints, and including a remembrance of the dead. Some adult prayers are equally popular with children, such as the Golden Rule ( Luke 6:31 , Matthew 7:12 ), the Doxology , the Serenity Prayer , John 3:16 , Psalm 145:15 ...
It is also called Mid-Lent Sunday, Mothering Sunday, Mother's Day, and Rose Sunday. As noted, on both Refreshment Sundays, the colour of vestments and church hangings is changed to rose. On Gaudete Sunday, where churches are using an Advent Wreath with purple candles, the candle for the third Sunday in Advent is also rose instead of purple.
Ettu Nombu (Malayalam: എട്ടു നോമ്പ്) or the Eight Day Lent of St Mary, is a solemn remembrance of virgin-mother of Jesus Christ, for the St Thomas Christians in Kerala, India. The custom is observed in the Oriental Orthodox ( Jacobite and Indian Orthodox ) and Eastern Catholic ( Syro-Malabar and Syro Malankara Catholic ...
In the official communiqué he added that "Russian mystics and the great saints of all the traditions advised, in moments of spiritual turbulence, to shelter beneath the mantle of the Holy Mother of God pronouncing the invocation 'Sub Tuum Praesidium'". [17] In Poland, this prayer is often recited at the end of the Holy Rosary.
Blue Plaque for Constance Penswick Smith. Located on Church Walk, Newark on Trent, England. Constance Adelaide Smith (28 April 1878 – 10 June 1938, published under the pseudonym C. Penswick Smith) was an Englishwoman responsible for the reinvigoration of Mothering Sunday in the British Isles in the 1910s and 1920s.