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  2. Mothering Sunday - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Laetare Sunday - Wikipedia

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    This Sunday is currently also known as Mothering Sunday, [4] Refreshment Sunday, mid-Lent Sunday (in French mi-carême) and Rose Sunday (either because the golden rose sent by Popes to Catholic sovereigns used to be blessed at this time, or because the use of rose-colored rather than violet vestments was permitted on this day).

  4. Refreshment Sunday - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Is Mother’s Day a Christian holiday? Here’s how the ...

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    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 ...

  6. Simnel cake - Wikipedia

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    It was originally made for the fourth Sunday in Lent, [1] also known as Laetare Sunday, the Refreshment Sunday of Lent (when the 40-day fast would be relaxed), Mothering Sunday, the Sunday of the Five Loaves, [2] or Simnel Sunday; named after the cake. [3] In the United Kingdom, it is now commonly associated with Mothering Sunday and Easter ...

  7. Mother's Day - Wikipedia

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    In Ireland, Mother's Day is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, as in the United Kingdom, and has the same roots in Mothering Sunday. The practice died out in Ireland around the late 18th century but was revived around the 1950s due to Americanisation .

  8. ‘Mothering Sunday’ Review: Odessa Young and Josh O’Connor ...

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    In “Mothering Sunday,” however, a number of upper-class English families meet to picnic on a day so unseasonably warm and bright that the weather is the one safe running topic of conversation ...

  9. Lent - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, the fourth Lenten Sunday, Mothering Sunday, which has become known as Mother's Day in the United Kingdom and an occasion for honouring mothers of children, has its origin in a 16th-century celebration of the Mother Church. The fourth Sunday of Lent has also been called "Rose Sunday"; on this day the Pope blesses the Golden Rose, a ...