This day celebrates and honours mothers in the United Kingdom on the fourth Sunday of Lent (3 weeks before Easter Sunday), either in March or April.
It was said that Constance Adelaide Smith was inspired to advocate for Mothering Sunday, an already-existing Christian ecclesiastical celebration in which the faithful visit the church in which they received the sacrament of baptism, as an equivalent celebration. She referred to medieval traditions of celebration Mother church, “mothers of earthly homes”, Mary, mother of Jesus, and Mother Nature.
This day coincides with Laetere Sunday, also called Mid-Lent Sunday, Refreshment Sunday or Simnel Sunday. It is traditional to bake a Simnel cake, a cake symbolising the 12 apostles of the last supper.
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