Wishing all our special Gomer ladies a very happy Mothering Sunday. We do hope you enjoy this lovely sunny day. With thanks to you for all you do. With further thanks to our FROGJS for sorting the gift sale – we do hope you like your pretty gift.
Interestingly Mothering Sunday began as an explicitly religious event of the 16th Century, with no connection to mothers at all. The word “mothering” referred to the “mother church”, which is to say the main church or cathedral of the region. It became a tradition that, on the fourth Sunday of Lent, people would return to their mother church for a special service. This pilgrimage was apparently known as “going a-mothering”, and became something of a holiday event, with domestic servants traditionally given the day off to visit their own families as well as their mother church.
Today, we honour all the special ladies in our life. And thinking of those, for a variety of reasons, who we may not be able to be with today.