Today is Mothering Sunday or Mothers' Day.
Professor Ronald Hutton described how a religious event during Lent has transmuted into a festival celebrating the modern cult of the family. The Book of Common Prayer prescribes the Jerusalem Mater Omnium epistle for this day. Ritual foods include a plain simnel cake, pork stuffed with bay leaves and peas ("Carlings") cooked in butter.
Professor Ronald Hutton described how a religious event during Lent has transmuted into a festival celebrating the modern cult of the family. The Book of Common Prayer prescribes the Jerusalem Mater Omnium epistle for this day. Ritual foods include a plain simnel cake, pork stuffed with bay leaves and peas ("Carlings") cooked in butter.
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