Today, October 17th, we celebrate here in Argentina Mother's Day. This is a day of reunion, in which we try to share with our mums as much time as we can, as well as making her feel happy. In our country we generally honour our mums by giving them presents. Besides, we often organize a family gathering to celebrate this special day.
In many countries, such as Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, USA, Spain and Switzerland, Mother's Day is celebrated in May, whereas in the UK and Ireland, it is celebrated in March or April.
As regards the origin of this celebration, each country follows its own tradition. In the UK, Mothering Sunday celebrations are part of the liturgical calendar in several Christian denominations, including Anglicans. In the Catholic calendar is marked as Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and your "mother" church. Children and young people who were "in service" (servants in richer households) were given a day off on that date so they could visit their families. The children would pick wild flowers along the way to place them in the church or to give them to their mothers as gifts.
In some countries Mother's Day was changed to dates that were significant to the majority religion, like the Virgin Mary day in Catholic countries, or the birthday of the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic countries. Other countries changed it to historical dates, like Bolivia using the date of a certain battle where women participated or Paraguay celebrating it the same day as "Día de la Patria", on May 15th.
In Argentina, we celebrate Mother's Day on the third Sunday in October, apparently because as we are in the South Hemisphere in October we are in spring. Precisely in Lebanon Mother's Day is celebrated on Spring's day. Don't you usually give flowers to you mum in this day??
Hope you enjoyed a fantastic day with your mums and families!!!
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