A day in honor of mothers and/or one's mother church, which falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent, exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday, especially in the United Kingdom and Ireland; compare a-mothering
Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday in Lent, when children give cards and presents to their mothers as a sign of their love for them. = Mother's Day. Mother's Day
A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar