Happy Mother's Day
Celebrating motherhood has roots dating back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. A more modern form of Mother’s Day appears in the early Christian festival known as “Mothering Sunday”, a once major tradition in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe (according to the History Channel). It was a time when the faithful would return to their “mother church” (their “home” church) for a special service. Another…version…of Mother’s Day took form in the 19 th century, before the Civil War, when Ann Reeves Jarvis helped to create Mothers’ Day Work Clubs to teach local women how to properly care for their children. After the war, these clubs helped to bridge the divided country. In 1868 Jarvis organized “Mothers’ Friendship Day,” at which mothers gathered with former Union and Confederate soldiers to promote reconciliation. The Mother’s Day tradition that we recognize today most likely owes its genesis to Anna Jarvis, daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, who championed a day set aside to ho