MOTHER'S DAY 2023

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood and the influence of mothers in society.

When is Mother's Day?

The second Sunday in May is Mother’s Day in most countries.

This year, Mother's Day is on Sunday, May 14, 2023. Although the date changes year-to-year, Mother's Day is always held on the second Sunday of May—similarly to how Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November

Why do we celebrate Mother's Day?

Origin of Mother's Day goes back to the era of ancient Greek and Romans. But the roots of  Mother’s Day  history can also be traced in UK where a Mothering Sunday was celebrated much before the festival saw the light of the day in US. However, the celebration of the festival as it is seen today is a recent phenomenon and not even a hundred years old.

This day is observed in many countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and Americas, but the tradition to celebrate the holiday is native to the USA. Although world-wide celebration of Mother’s Day is influenced by different traditions, they are all common in origin.

The very first Mother’s Day was celebrated in 1908 in the USA, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial service to honor her mother. Anna Jarvis, an activist who lived from 1864 to 1948, is credited with being the "mother" of Mother's Day. Although, interestingly enough, she never had any children of her own.

Anna's mother, Anne Jarvis, hosted clubs for moms in the 1850s to help them learn to properly care for their children in order to lower the infant mortality rate, according to National Geographic. After Anne's passing in 1905, Anna was determined to honor her mother's legacy. On May 10, 1908, Anna organized the first Mother's Day–related function in her hometown of Grafton, West Virginia.

Anna's hard work to pay tribute to her late mother was so impressive that President Woodrow Wilson officially declared Mother's Day a national holiday in 1914. He was also the one who decided it should fall on the second Sunday in May.

QUOTES ON MOTHER’S DAY

·        "Life doesn't come with a manual. It comes with a mother." —Unknown

·        "I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood." —Lance Conrad

·        "The best place to cry is in a mother's arms." —Jodie Picoult

·        "A mother and daughter’s love is never separated." —Viola Shipman

·        "If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period." —Rosie Pope

·        "Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." —Robert
Browning

·        "The world needs our mothers." —Liya Kebede

·        “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” —Unknown

·        “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Charley Benetto

·        “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” —Leroy Brownlow

·        “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale

·        “My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. ” —Jodi Picoult

·        “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” —William Makepeace Thackeray

·        “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust

·        “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” —Mahatma Gandhi

·        “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” —Elder M. Russell Ballard

·        “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes

·        “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” —Unknown

·        “Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” —Maxim Grosky

·        “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” —Lisa Leslie

·        “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” —Maya Angelou

·        “Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.” —Gilda Radner