Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday is a festival held in the UK and other countries on the 4th Sunday of Lent. It is often referred to as Mother’s Day, but it should not be confused with Mothers Day, which was established in the USA and is a holiday celebrated annually on the second Sunday of May.

Readings

• Exodus 2.1-10 or 1 Samuel 1.20-end.
• Psalm 34.11-20 or Psalm 127.1-4
• 2 Corinthians 1.3-7 or Colossians 3.12-12
• Luke 2.33-35 or John 19.25b-27.

Hymns

• All Things Bright And Beautiful (All Things Bright, Organ, 5 Verses)
• All Things Bright And Beautiful (Royal Oak, Organ, 5 verses)
• Bind Us Together Lord (Piano And Strings, 3 Verses)
• Dearest Mother May Each Day (Abba Father, Flute and Theodor, 2 Verses)
• For Mary Mother Of Our Lord (Kilmarnock, Organ, 6 Verses)
• For Mary Mother Of Our Lord (St Botolph, Organ, 6 Verses)
• For The Beauty Of The Earth (Dix, Organ, 4 Verses)
• For The Beauty Of The Earth (Heathlands, Organ, 4 Verses)
• Forth In The Peace Of Christ We Go (Duke Street, Organ, 5 Verses)
• God Of Eve And God Of Mary (Stuttgart, Organ, 5 Verses)
• I Know A Rose Tree Springing (Es Is Ein Ros Entsprungen, Organ & Trumpet Descant, 3 Verses)
• Jesus Good Above All Other (Quem Pastores, 5 Verses)
• Morning Has Broken (Bunessan, Piano Ensemble, 3 Verses)
• Mother Of Mercy (Mater Misericoriae – 6 Verses) – Organ
• O Holy Night (Small Ensemble, 6 Verses)
• On This Day O Beautiful Mother (Beautiful Mother, Organ, 2 Verses)
• Sing We Of The Blesséd Mother (Abbot’s Leigh, Organ, 4 Verses)
• Tell Out My Soul (Woodlands, Organ, 4 Verses)