Make a special gift for your mum this Mothers Day

Research suggests that the origins of Mother’s Day began when many people moved away from their hometown to work and then attended Sunday worship at their nearest parish. It was considered important for people to return to their original hometown church for at least one Sunday a year, which became an occasion for family reunions, particularly as it was common for young children to have moved away from home to work. Therefore the in the middle of lent the return to the ‘mother’ church became a tradition.

By the seventeenth century, Mothering Sunday had become a public holiday and was known as ‘Rose Sunday’, as children would arrive at the church with bunches of roses, and other wild flowers, to give to their mothers. A special cake, called the Mothering Cake, was sometimes also brought along to provide a festive touch. It is believed that this was the beginning of the tradition of gift giving that still exists today.