Editing Mothering Sunday (section)

== Revival ==
Reacting to [[Anna Jarvis]]'s efforts to establish Mother's Day in 1913, [[Constance Penswick Smith]] created the Mothering Sunday Movement.<ref name="ODNB"/>

Smith published a play, ''In Praise of Mother: A story of Mothering Sunday'' (1913),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=C. Penswick |title=In Praise of Mother. A story of Mothering Sunday. Arranged as a play in three acts |date=1913 |publisher=John Ellis |location=Nottingham}}</ref> as well as ''A Short History of Mothering Sunday'' (1915), which went through several editions.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=C. Penswick |title=A Short History of Mothering Sunday |date=1915 |location=Nottingham}}</ref><ref name="Smith1926"/> Her most influential booklet was ''The Revival of Mothering Sunday'' (1921).<ref name="Smith1921">{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=C. Penswick |title=The Revival of Mothering Sunday |date=1921 |publisher=SPCK |location=London}}</ref> This book has a series of four chapters outlining the different aspects of motherhood that the day should honour beyond a strictly biological one:

* 'The Church – Our Mother'
* 'Mothers of Earthly Homes'
* 'The Mother of Jesus'
* 'Gifts of Mother Earth'

By the 1950s, the occasion was celebrated across the United Kingdom and other [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries.<ref name=hutton>{{cite book |title= The stations of the sun: a history of the ritual year in Britain |last1=Hutton |first1=Ronald |place=Oxford |publisher= Oxford University Press |year= 2001 |isbn= 0-19-285448-8 |pages= 174–177}}</ref>

The [[Church of England]], as with other [[Christian denominations]], invites people on Mothering Sunday to visit the parish church or cathedral in which they received the [[sacrament]] of [[baptism]].<ref name="PearsonSzoke2009"/>

In modern Britain, 'Mother's Day' has become another term for Mothering Sunday in commercial contexts due to American influence, but it continues to be held during Lent.<ref name="DEF"/> The holiday has also gained secular observance in Britain as a celebration of motherhood, following the American tradition, rather than its original religious meaning.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/mothering-sunday-what-meaning-mothers-day-uk-date-different-us-explained-1540566|title=The meaning behind Mothering Sunday and how it inspired the UK's Mother's Day celebrations|date=25 March 2022|website=inews.co.uk}}</ref>