Sundays at All Hallows (Sunday, March 30, 2025) Is Now Online

Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows.

This Sunday is the Fourth Sunday in Lent. It is also known as Laetare Sunday, Mid-Lent Sunday, Refreshment Sunday, and Rose Sunday. Laetare is the Latin word for "rejoice."

In the Church of England, the Church of Ireland, and some other Anglican churches this Sunday is known as Mothering Sunday. This Sunday was so named from the practice of “mothering,” the practice of returning to one’s local mother church for a service held on this particular Sunday. This practice originated in medieval times. One's mother church might be the church where one was baptized, the local parish church, or the nearest cathedral, which may be regarded as the mother church of all the parish churches in a diocese. In modern times Mothering Sunday has become an occasion on which mothers and motherhood is honored like Mother’s Day in the United States and in some places on which the Earth as our mother is celebrated.

Among the traditions associated with Mothering Sunday is the eating of Simnel Cake, a fruit cake, layered and topped with marzipan, and Mothering Buns, iced yeast-raised sweet buns, covered with Hundreds and Thousands sprinkles. Children present their mothers with bouquets of violets.

In some churches that use liturgical colors it is customary to change the color of the day from purple or Lenten array, sackcloth or burlap with black ad oxblood orphreys, to rose or pink.

The topic of this Sunday’s message is God’s amazing grace.

Readings: Joshua 5: 9-12; 2 Corinthians 5: 16-21; and Luke 15: 1-3, 11b-32

Message: God’s Amazing Grace

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