Mama, Mom, Mama Mia, Mammalleh, Mommy, Mamacita, Mutter, Maman, Mama-san, Mother. By any name, mothers are special.
Celebrate the love!
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The ancient Greeks were the first to pay tribute to mothers, honoring Rhea, the mother of the gods. In the 1600s, the English celebrated Mothering Sunday on the 4th Sunday of Lent (the forty days preceding Easter). Servants were excused from work to be with their mothers, and people often made a "Mothering Cake” to give as a gift. Christian Europeans honored the Mother Church. Gradually, Mother Church and Mothering Sunday blended to honor mothers. In the United States in 1872, Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic, began an annual Mother's Day celebration in Boston, Massachusetts that focused on peace. In 1907, Anna M. Jarvis, a spinster school teacher who adored her mother, invited friends to her Philadelphia home on the second Sunday in May, the anniversary of her mother's death. At that time, she revealed her idea to establish an nationwide holiday called Mother's Day. With unanimous support, Anna wrote to the superintendent of Andrews Methodist Sunday School in her hometown of Grafton, West Virginia, where her mother had taught religious lessons, in hopes they would allow her celebration to take place there. All mothers present would be recognized, as would her mother. And on May 10, 1908, the first Mother's Day service was held with 407 children and their mothers attending. As the ceremony came to an end, a carnation was given to each mother, the carnation being Anna's mother's favorite flower. Flowers have been given ever since. Anna began a letter writing campaign to carry her cause nationwide. Editorials, sermons, and political speeches soon sang the tune of her cause and on May 8, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. Sadly, after a sad love affair, Anna vowed never to
marry. She became a recluse. In 1948, she died childless, deaf, nearly
blind and penniless in a private sanitarium funded by friends. Her
loving intention has remained and we can thank her for the good sense
and sensitivity by which we all honor our blessed mothers. Americans now buy over 10 million bouquets of flowers, give 150 million greeting cards, and fill more restaurants than any other time of the year!
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