{"id":6767,"date":"2018-03-08T13:01:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2018-03-08T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:01:25","slug":"mothering-sunday-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/mothering-sunday-2018-6767.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mothering Sunday 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Fourth Sunday of Lent, Mid-Lent Sunday, Laetare Sunday, in the Anglican tradition is also called Mothering Sunday. The Introit for the day, from Isaiah, is \u201c\u201dREJOICE [Laetare] ye with Jerusalem: and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: that ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>I was glad when the said unto me: We will go into the house of the Lord.\u201d\u00a0 The traditional Epistle from Galatians incudes the passage \u201cBut Jerusalem which is above is free; which is the mother of us all. For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.\u201d The traditional Gospel tells of Jesus\u2019 feeding of the five thousand.<\/p>\n

From these passages of Scripture arose the custom of visiting the mother church, that is, the church in which one was baptized. Young people who had left their home village to work as domestic servants were given the day off to see their mothers and to bring a gift of food.<\/p>\n

During the Lent fast, people did not eat from sweet, rich foods or meat. However, the fast was lifted slightly on Mothering Sunday and many people prepared a Simnel cake to eat with their family on this day. A Simnel cake is covered with marzipan and twelve balls of\u00a0 \u00a0marzipan to represent Jesus and the eleven faithful apostles.<\/p>\n

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A modern carol by George Hare Leonard refers to these customs:<\/p>\n

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It is the day of all the year, of all the year the one day,
\nWhen I shall see my mother dear and bring her cheer, a-mothering on Sunday.
\nIt is the day of all the year, of all the year the one day,
\nAnd here come I my mother dear, to bring you cheer, a-mothering on Sunday.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ll put on my Sunday coat,
\nAnd in my hat a feather,
\nAnd get the lines I writ by rote,
\nWith many a note,
\nThat I\u2019ve a-strung together.<\/p>\n

And now to fetch my wheaten cake,
\nTo fetch it from the baker,
\nHe promised me, for Mother\u2019s cake,
\nThe best he\u2019d bake
\nFor me to fetch and take her.<\/p>\n

Well have I known, as I went by
\nOne hollow lane, that none day
\nI\u2019d fail to find \u2013 for all they\u2019re shy \u2013
\nWhere violets lie,
\nAs I went home on Sunday.<\/p>\n

My sister Jane is waiting-maid
\nAlong with Squire\u2019s lady;
\nAnd year by year her part she\u2019s played
\nAnd home she stayed
\nTo get the dinner ready.<\/p>\n

For Mother\u2019ll come to Church, you\u2019ll see-
\nOf all the year it\u2019s the day-
\n\u2018The one,\u2019 she\u2019ll say, \u2018that\u2019s made for me
\nAnd so it be:
\nIt\u2019s every Mother\u2019s free day.<\/p>\n

The boys will all come home from town,
\nNot one will miss that one day;
\nAnd every maid will bustle down
\nTo show her gown,
\nA-mothering on Sunday.<\/p>\n

It is the day of all the year,
\nOf all the year the one day;
\nAnd here come I, my Mother dear,
\nTo bring you cheer,
\nA-mothering on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here it is sung by Jane Peppler of\u00a0Pratie\u00a0<\/a>Heads.<\/p>\n

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