History of Mother’s Day and Gifts Ideas to Celebrate

The Ancient Greek and Roman cultures can be said to be the discoverers of the tradition of honoring our mothers. The first Mother’s Day ceremonial was a church service in 1908 requested by Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, to honor her deceased mother. Jarvis, at an early age, had heard her mother express hope that a day to honor all mothers would be established. So, in 1914, Congress passed legislation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.

There is also some evidence of a festival prevailing in the British Isles and Celtic Europe where a festival called the “Spring Mother’s Day” was celebrated in honor of Goddess Brigid.

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When is Mother’s Day 2007?

Mother’s Day is recognized around the world as a day for celebrating motherhood and thanking mothers. The actual date of celebration varies by country.

When is Mother’s Day In the United States?

In the United States, Mother’s Day is held on the second Sunday of May.

Mother’s Day 2007 will be on May 13th.

When is Mother’s Day Around the World?

Mother’s Days fall on various days of the year in different countries because they have a number of different origins.

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Mother’s Day Quotes 

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

Marion C. Garretty

A mother understands what a child does not say.

Jewish Proverb
 
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

Unknown

Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.

Abraham Lincoln

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The History of Mother’s Day in the United States

The custom of honoring mothers goes back at least as far as 17th-century England, which celebrated (and still celebrates) Mothering Sunday.

Mother’s Day in the United States was first proclaimed in 1870 in Boston by Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation, and Howe called for it to be observed each year nationally in 1872. As originally envisioned, Howe’s “Mother’s Day” was a call for pacifism and disarmament by women.

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Mother’s Day Poems

No One More Lovely

She walks in elegance whose heart
Is filled with beauty, like the spring
Her gentleness is but a part
Of all the joy her graces bring.
The things she taught me at her knee
Are honesty and faith and love,
No one is lovelier than she
Whose soul is joined with things above.

Charlotte Carpenter

Angels of God

They are angels of God in disguise;
His sunlight still gleams in their tresses;
His glory still gleams in their eyes.

Charles M. Dickinson

In All Honor

Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

What is a Mother

What is a Mother
She’s someone who shares
In all of your problems,
Your joys and your cares-
Someone who gives you
Right from the start
The warmth and the loves
Of her motherly heart-
Someone who’s loyal
And helpful and dear
And seems to grow more so
As year follows year-
Life is much brighter
And happier, too
Because there are Mothers-
Mothers like you.

J. Kyler McManus

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