Mothering sunday Articles on Eden Blog

This year, Mothering Sunday is 22nd March 2020. Are you looking for a gift for mum? Here are 10 faith-themed gifts you’ll love to give and she’ll love to receive.

Lizzie Lowrie, the author of Saltwater & Honey, shares a personal reflection for women who find Mothering Sunday a difficult time of year. 

People say those who talk about the children they have lost are brave...and yes, without question anyone who survives baby loss is indeed brave, but they aren't brave for talking about their child, they are simply being a parent.

Mothering Sunday is an opportunity to thank our Mother's for everything they do - it's a chance to show our love and gratitude, to honour and elevate women who shape and nurture us.  God's word gives us many examples of Mother's displaying the applauded characteristics we celebrate today.

Giving flowers to mothers hasn’t always been the principle activity of the fourth Sunday in Lent. The day that marks the halfway point between lean times that follow Ash Wednesday and the celebratory feasting of Easter Sunday has had many other points of focus over the centuries.

  Mothering Sunday grows out of Christian church tradition and Mother’s Day out of American women’s response to civil war. But what about other faiths? Do western responses mothers and motherhood find any kind of parallel in Jewish, Hindu, Islam and Sikh religious practice?

In the UK and Europe it’s the fourth Sunday in Lent and we call in Mothering Sunday. In the US and most of the world where American influence is stronger than the traditions of the English Church it’s Mother’s Day. How are the two days of honouring mothers and motherhood relevant to the...

Mothers’ Day and Mothering Sunday are not the same. The two days dedicated to mothers and motherhood are very different celebrations with very different roots but increasingly similar customs and traditions worldwide.