Why Does UK Celebrate Mother’s Day on a Different Day?
You might’ve come across this at some point in your life that the UK celebrates Mother’s Day way earlier than the actual date of International Mother’s Day. Do you know why that is? And do you know why we celebrate Mother’s Day at all? Well, let’s have a look at the history of this day and understand how these traditions came into being. Mother’s Day as celebrated internationally by everyone around the world, came into existence in the early 20 th century when Anna Jarvis, a social activist in the US, set out to fulfill her mother’s lifelong dream to see a special day recognizing mothers all around the world. In the UK and many other countries, the idea of Mother’s Day comes from the tradition of Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday is a tradition honoring the mother church, a church where one is baptized and becomes the “child of the church”. The day is celebrated on the fourth Sunday in Lent when people who used to leave their towns and cities for work would return to their...