Gee, I've never heard of Mothering Sunday. Wikipedia says it'sa holiday celebrated by Catholic and Protestant Christians in some parts of Europe. It falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent, exactly three weeks before Easter Day. Once observed as a day on which people would visit their "mother" church, it has also become an occasion for honouring the mothers of children and giving them presents. It is increasingly being called Mother's Day, although that has always been a secular event quite different from the original Mothering Sunday. In the UK and Ireland, Mothering Sunday is celebrated in the same way as Mother's Day is celebrated elsewhere. I've always known the Fourth Sunday of Lent as Laetare Sunday, the halfway point in Lent where priests wear rose-colored vestments and the kids know they're halfway through their annual agony of giving up candy....
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