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Mother's
Day - 2016 May 8 |
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Mother's
Day / Mothering Sunday Date UK :
6th March - 2016
Mother's Day Date USA : May 8
- 2016 |
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Mother's
Day, a day for Mom,
is celebrated on the 2nd
Sunday of May, every year, all over the
world as a public expression
of our love, affection and reverence for the
mothers. It is a day when children honor
their mothers with Mother’s
day cards, gifts, and Carnation
flowers. This flower was chosen to represent
the sweetness, purity and endurance of mother
love. However, the red
carnation has since become the symbol of a living
mother while white signifies that one's mother
has died.
Celebrate Mother's Day! And
honor your Mom with favorite gifts, heartfelt
sentiments, and time well spent together. |
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History
In ancient Greece, the people paid tribute to
Rhea, the Mother of the Gods, every spring.
A little later in the 1600’s, it is noted
that England paid homage to mothers on "Mothering
Sunday," the fourth
Sunday of Lent. In the past a bunch of
violets or other small posies were the traditional
gifts and children away from home, especially
daughters in domestic service, normally returned
to their family for this day.
In the Church calendar, Mothering Sunday, or
Mid-Lent Sunday, as it is also known, commemorated
the banquet given by Joseph to his brethren,
since this forms the first lesson of the day,
and also the miraculous feeding of the five
thousand, the story of which forms the gospel
for the day.
In the U.S. Mothers' Day is a holiday celebrated
on second Sunday in May. First observance in
Philadelphia, Pa. in 1907, base it on suggestions
made by Julia Ward Howe in 1872 and Anna Jarvis
in 1907.
In 1908 Ana Jarvis, from Grafton, West Virginia,
began a campaign to establish a national Mother's
Day. Anna Jarvis persuaded her mother's church
in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's
Day on the second anniversary of her mother's
death, the 2nd Sunday of May. By the next year,
1908, Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.
In 1910 the governor of West Virginia issued
the first Mother’s Day proclamation. Oklahoma
celebrated Mother's Day that year also. By 1911
every state observed Mother's Day. The Mother's
Day International Association was incorporated
on December 12, 1912, with the purpose of furthering
meaningful observations of Mother's Day.
President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the
official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day
a national observance that was to be held each
year on the 2nd Sunday of May. Many other countries
of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day
at different times throughout the year. |
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Mother’s
Day Quotes |
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God could not be everywhere
and therefore he made mothers. -Jewish Proverb
Mother
love is the fuel that enables a normal human
being to do the impossible.
-Marion C. Garretty
Mother
- that was the bank where we deposited all our
hurts and worries.
-T. DeWitt Talmage
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts
of little children.
-William Makepeace Thackeray
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest
salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
-Mildred B. Vermont
Biology
is the least of what makes someone a mother.
-Oprah Winfrey
There
is only one pretty child in the world, and every
mother has it.
-Chinese Proverb
You don't really understand human nature unless
you know why a child on a merry-go-round will
wave at his parents every time around - and
why his parents will always wave back.
-William D. Tammeus
A
man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's
work is never done.
-Author Unknown
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife
the best, but his mother the longest.
-Irish Proverb
The real religion of the world comes from women
much more than from men - from mothers most
of all, who carry the key of our souls in their
bosoms.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard
in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
-William Goldsmith Brown
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children
obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
-Peter De Vries
If the whole world were put into one scale,
and my mother in the other, the whole world
would kick the beam.
-Lord Langdale
The moment a child is born, the mother is also
born. She never existed before. The woman existed,
but the mother, never. A mother is something
absolutely new.
-Rajneesh
When you are a mother, you are never really
alone in your thoughts. A mother always has
to think twice, once for herself and once for
her child.
-Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty
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