Mother's Day Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====United Kingdom==== [[File:Happy Mother's Day - geograph.org.uk - 709934.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Balloon]]s outside, in the week before Mother's Day 2008]] The [[United Kingdom]] celebrates Mother's Day on the [[Fourth Sunday in Lent]] ({{Moveable date |holiday=Mothering Sunday |year={{CURRENTYEAR}}}}).<ref>{{cite web|title=Mother's Day: When is it celebrated and where did it come from?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/17343360|website=BBC|date=14 March 2021|access-date=10 April 2021}}</ref> In the United Kingdom, the holiday has its roots in the religious [[Mothering Sunday]] celebration and was originally unrelated to the international Mother's Day holiday.<ref name="bbc"/> Most historians believe that Mothering Sunday evolved from a medieval practice of visiting one's mother church annually on [[Laetare Sunday]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Higdon |first1=David Leon |title=The Wife of Bath and Refreshment Sunday |journal=Papers on Language and Literature |date=1972 |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=199–201 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/950908498b6f12eb4101e772a0c0e480/}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page