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***Mother's Day March 14th 2010*** aka MOTHERING SUNDAY

T SHIRT TED

This cute fella is a substantial  18" tall head to toe

He was made for the NSPCC as you can see in the pix

I will give a further contribution from this sale

 

 He wears a baggy white T shirt which I have printed, subliminally, with "I

Heart You" in a light and airy style. This means that the T  shows 100% faithfull reproduction with no plasticy feel as the image is IN the shirt not ON it

Similarly I can give the back of the shirt the same treatment for a £5 supplement

When you order the Bear, email me the message and/or image for the back, to

[email protected]

 

Postage is recorded delivery (signed for) at cost

 

The History behind Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday was also known as 'Refreshment Sunday', Pudding Pie Sunday (in Surrey, England) or 'Mid-Lent Sunday'. It was a day in Lent when the fasting rules were relaxed, in honour of the 'Feeding of the Five Thousand', a story in the Christian Bible.

The more usual name was Mothering Sunday. No one is absolutely certain exactly how the name of Mothering Sunday began. However, one theory is that the celebration could have been adopted from a Roman spring festival celebrating Cybele, their Mother Goddess.

As Christianity spread, this date was adopted by Christians. The epistle in the Book of Common Prayer for this Sunday refers to the heavenly Jerusalem as "the Mother of all us all", and this may have prompted the customs we still see today.

It is known on this date, about four hundred years ago, people made a point of visiting their nearest big church (the Mother Church). The church in which each person was baptised.

Cathedrals are the 'mother church' of all other churches in an area ('diocese'). Canterbury Cathedral is pictured below.

People who visited their mother church would say they had gone "a mothering."

Young British girls and boys 'in service' (maids and servants) were only allowed one day to visit their family each year. This was usually on Mothering Sunday.

Often the housekeeper or cook would allow the maids to bake a cake to take home for their mother. Sometimes a gift of eggs; or flowers from the garden (or hothouse) was allowed.