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Thread: Refreshment Sunday
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ardmacha
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I have been doing some searching for the origins of the name Refreshment Sunday. Mothering Sunday takes its origins from a reference in the Epistle for today, Refreshment Sunday from the Gospel. Where did the name originate and how far back does it go ? I think that it is an old Anglican usage and have never heard Non-conformists or Roman catholics use it. Does anyone know anything about it ?
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Pomona
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The name seems to have the same purpose of Laetare Sunday, ie a relaxing of Lent.
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Consider the work of God: Who is able to straighten what he has bent? [Ecclesiastes 7:13]
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Laud-able
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TO DIANEME. A CEREMONY IN GLOUCESTER.
I'll to thee a simnel bring,
'Gainst thou go'st a-mothering:
So that when she blesseth thee,
Half that blessing thou'lt give me.
The Revd Robert Herrick, 1591-1674
Vicar of Saint George the Martyr, Dean Prior, Devonshire, from 1629 to 1674 [ejected in 1647 and returned at the Restoration]
We have had a simnel cake on Mothering Sunday for at least the last sixty-two years.
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'. . . "Non Angli, sed Angeli" "not Angels, but Anglicans"', Sellar, W C, and Yeatman, R J, 1066 and All That, London, 1930, p. 6.
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bib
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This was the first time in my memory that we had no Simnel cake this year - don't know why.
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Laud-able
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Perhaps no one had the necessary time: a big cake takes the better part of two days to prepare and bake.
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'. . . "Non Angli, sed Angeli" "not Angels, but Anglicans"', Sellar, W C, and Yeatman, R J, 1066 and All That, London, 1930, p. 6.
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Thurible
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Our Sainsbury's were certainly selling "Easter Simnel Cake" last week.
Thurible
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Baptist Trainfan
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Waitrose had some and it didn't have the word "Easter" on it!
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