母亲节PPT英文版.ppt

Heartfelt thanks This card comes from the whole family. Happy Mothers Day. 这张卡片是我们全家合送的。祝您母亲节快乐。 Today is your day to relax and let us take care of you. Happy Mothers Day. 今天是您休息的日子，让我们来照顾您。母亲节快乐。 We will try to make this your best Mothers Day ever. 我们将努力使今天成为您过得最愉快的母亲节。 On this day we honor you, dear mother. 亲爱的妈妈，我们向您致敬。 Thanks For Watching 2010. 5. 9 By 第五组 The history Of Mothers’ Day The earliest Mothers Day celebrations are traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600s, England celebrated a day called Mothering Sunday, celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent . Mothering Sunday honored the mothers of England. During this time many of the Englands poor worked as servants for the wealthy. As most jobs were located far from their homes, the servants would live at the houses of their employers. On Mothering Sunday the servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers. A special cake, called the mothering cake, was often brought along to provide a festive touch. As Christianity spread throughout Europe the celebration changed to honor the Mother Church -- the spiritual power that gave them life and protected them from harm. Over time the church festival blended with the Mothering Sunday celebration . People began honoring their mothers as well as the church. In the United States Mothers Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mothers Day. Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mothers church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mothers Day on the second anniversary of her mothers death, the 2nd