Mother's Day 2024: Why It Is Celebrated On The Second Sunday Of May Every Year

Happy Mother’s Day 2024: Mothers are like sunshine on a rainy day, always there to comfort and guide us. Their love is like a warm hug that makes everything alright. They teach us to be kind, strong, and brave. With a heart full of love, they make our world a better place to be. That is why a special event called Mother's Day has been created to celebrate and honour mothers and motherhood. Mother's Day, also called Mothering Sunday, is a special day for celebrating and thanking mothers and those who take care of us like mothers, for all they do for their families and communities. It's usually on the second Sunday in May in many countries like India, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

On Mother's Day, children, partners, and other family members show their love and gratitude to their mothers by giving them gifts, cards, and other nice things. It's a chance to appreciate the effort, sacrifices, and love that mothers put in every day.

When is Mother’s Day in 2024?

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As the special event is celebrated on the second Sunday of May every year so, in 2024 Mother's Day will be celebrated on Sunday, 12 May 2024. Last year, in 2023, Mother’s Day was celebrated on May 14. And in 2025, Mother's Day will be observed on Sunday, 8 May 2025.

Why is Mother's Day celebrated on the second Sunday of May every year

Every year, Mother's Day falls on the second Sunday of May. But have you ever wondered why it's always on that particular Sunday? Let's find out why.

 Mother's Day is a special day for celebrating the role of 2024s in society. It's celebrated in different countries on different days, but most often it falls on the second Sunday of May. The idea of Mother's Day goes way back to ancient times when the Greeks and Romans held festivals to honour mother goddesses like Rhea and Cybele.

But the modern Mother's Day we know today started in the United States in the early 1900s. It all began with a lady called Anna Jarvis. She wanted to pay tribute to her own 2024, Ann Reeves Jarvis, and all moms for the hard work and sacrifices they make for their kids. Anna campaigned to make Mother's Day a national holiday to remember her mom, who passed away in 1905.

In 1914, the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, officially declared the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. It became a national holiday in the US and soon spread to other countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Singapore, and many more, each with its own customs and traditions.

In lots of places, Mother's Day is a time to show appreciation for moms and mother figures by giving them gifts, cards, and flowers. It's also a time for families to come together and enjoy each other's company.

Even though Mother's Day has become quite commercialised, the original idea of honouring and thanking 2024s is still really important. It reminds us of all the hard work and sacrifices 2024s make every single day and how vital they are in our lives.

Who is Anna Jarvis?

Founder of Mother's day, Anna Jarvis | Photo: Wikipedia

Anna Jarvis (1864-1948) was an American activist who is famous for starting Mother's Day, a special day to celebrate and appreciate mothers. Jarvis got the idea from seeing how hard her own 2024 worked to help the community stay healthy. In the early 1900s, she began asking for a day when everyone would recognize 2024s for all they do.

Her efforts paid off when Mother's Day became an official holiday in the United States in 1914. But later on, Jarvis wasn't happy with how the holiday became more about buying things than showing real love and gratitude. She spent the rest of her life trying to bring back the sincere meaning of Mother's Day.

Is Mother's Day a holiday?

Mother's Day isn't a public holiday, but it's a national celebration. Businesses stay open like any other Sunday. Public transport runs on its usual Sunday schedule. But since it's always celebrated on a Sunday, most state offices and employees follow their Sunday routine.

Happy Mother's Day quotes:

• "It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?" - Mahatma Gandhi
• "A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." - Princess Diana
• "Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." - Robert Browning
• "The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation." - James E. Faust
• "Life doesn't come with a manual, but it comes with a mother." - Unknown
• "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." - Oscar Wilde
• "Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever." - Unknown
• "Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing." - Ricki Lake
• “Only mothers can think of the future ― because they give birth to it in their children.” ― Maxim Gorky
• "A mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." - Erich Fromm
• “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.” ― Victor Hugo
• "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." - honouré de Balzac
• "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power." - Maya Angelou
• "Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation." - Robert A. Heinlein
• "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." - Abraham Lincoln
• "God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers." - Rudyard Kipling
•  “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” ― Dorothy Canfield Fisher
•  "A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them." - Victor Hugo
• "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." - William Ross Wallace
• "A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." - Cardinal Meymillod
• “Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them.” ― Karen White, “Sea Change”
• "When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child." - Sophia Loren
• "A mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." - Marion C. Garretty
• "Motherhood is the greatest gift and the hardest challenge." - Unknown
• "A mother's love is like a circle, it has no beginning and no end." - Unknown
• "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his." -  Oscar Wilde
• "If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" - Milton Berle
• “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” ― Barbara Johnson
• "God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers." - Rudyard Kipling
• "Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person's everything." - Unknown
• "When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half." - Gracie Allen
• "A mother's love is the strongest energy known to man." - Jamie McGuire
• "Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary- it's an act of infinite optimism." - Gilda Radner
• "If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." - Jacqueline Kennedy
• “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” -  Maya Angelou
• “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” -  Michael J. Fox
• “My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. ” - Jodi Picoult
• "The best place to cry is on a mother's arms." - Jodi Picoult
• "A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• "A mother's love is like an endless sea, it has no beginning or end." - Unknown
• "The only love that I really believe in is a mother's love for her children." - Karl Lagerfeld
• “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” -  William Makepeace Thackeray
• "A mother's love is the heartbeat of the home." - Unknown
• “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” -  Amy Tan
• "A mother's love is the greatest love of all." - Whitney Houston
• "A mother's love is like no other. It knows no boundaries and no conditions." - Unknown
• "Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you." - Louisa May Alcott in 'Jo's Boys'
• "A mother's love is the glue that holds everything together." - Unknown
• "A mother's love is the truest form of affection." - Unknown
• "Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”- JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
• "A mother's love is patient, kind, and unwavering." - Unknown
• "A mother's love is a beacon of light in the darkest of times." - Unknown
• "A mother's love is the foundation upon which a child's life is built." - Unknown
• "A mother's love is like sunshine on a rainy day." - Unknown
• "Motherhood is the art of raising a soul." - Unknown
• "A mother's love is the most powerful force in the universe." - Unknown

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