Mother’s Day is swift approaching, which means the time is right to start looking for the perfect gifts and cards for your favourite maternal figure(s) in your life.
The date of Mother’s Day changes every year, so you’d be forgiven for not keeping track of exactly when Mothering Sunday 2020 is going to be.
If you need a reminder of the date, why it changes, and the origins of Mother’s Day, then read on, because we’ve got what you need to know right here.
When is Mother’s Day 2020?
Mother’s Day falls on Sunday 22 March this year.
The date changes every year because, in the UK, Mothering Sunday first began as a church tradition, and it takes place three weeks before Easter on the fourth Sunday of Lent.
Since the dates of Lent and Easter are beholden to the lunar calendar, the date of Mother’s Day is as well.
It used to be that Mothering Sunday was the day on which Christians would travel to visit the church they were baptised in, also known as this ‘mother church’, and then end up meeting up with their mothers along the way.
Using Mother’s Day as a day to celebrate mums began in the US after Anna Jarvis campaigned from 1905 for Mother’s Day to become a national holiday in the wake of her mother’s death.
In 1914, it was declared a national holiday by then-President Woodrow Wilson, and in subsequent years, the tradition of celebrating Mother’s Day has spread far and wide.
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