

Ferg Morrissey 💜
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🚨 WATCH: Ed Davey competes with Lib Dem MPs in a Bake Off competition to launch the party’s local election campaign

Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping from an illegal transport truck and making their way home. They traveled around 17 km together, led by a corgi across highways and fields, now safely back with their respective owners..🐶🐾🥺❤️


💔BREAKING: On a sad & shameful day for our nation, the House of Lords has just voted to allow abortion UP TO BIRTH to be introduced into law. This extreme proposal will endanger women & threaten the lives of viable unborn babies.🧵1/

Tonight peers vote on abortion: a social justice issue. In one ward, doctors fight to save a baby. In another, they kill a baby. The difference, very often, comes down to which baby is wanted or can be afforded. Where is the equality? Where is the fairness? 1/2



What we now call Mothering Sunday comes from an older Christian custom connected to Laetare Sunday, which falls roughly three weeks before Easter. In medieval England the day had a specific religious meaning. People were encouraged to return to their “mother church”, meaning the main church or cathedral of the area where they were baptised. It was a day of reunion with the church that had given them spiritual life. That is where the phrase mother church comes from. Over time a social custom grew up around this religious practice. Many young people in those centuries worked as domestic servants or apprentices and lived away from their families for most of the year. On this particular Sunday their employers often allowed them to travel home. They would attend church with their families and spend the day together. So two things gradually fused into one tradition. The religious idea of returning to the mother church, and the practical reality that servants were allowed home to see their actual mothers. A lovely little detail from the old custom is the Simnel cake, a fruit cake traditionally baked for the day. Servants sometimes carried it home as a gift for their mothers after the Lenten fast was briefly relaxed on that Sunday. By the nineteenth century the religious meaning had faded a little and the family element became stronger. In the twentieth century, particularly after the Second World War, the day evolved further and began to resemble the American Mother's Day, with flowers, cards and meals out. But historically the roots are unmistakably Christian and medieval. It began as a liturgical moment within Lent, a small pause in the austerity of the season when people returned to the church that had nurtured their faith. Sons and daughters still travel great distances and cross oceans to come home for a short while, to sit at the same table, share a meal, and remind one another that whatever roads we wander, there is still a place that formed us and a family that waits for us. This Mothering Sunday feels a little like that medieval tradition brought quietly back to life. My own son is home for a short visit before returning to Canada for the final year of his visa, and I cannot help thinking those servants walking the long roads home three centuries ago would understand the feeling perfectly. Some things change in the world, but the joy of having your child back under your roof, even briefly, remains one of the oldest and simplest blessings there is. 😊 #Catholic #Christian #MothersDay




