Father’s Day
The holiday we know as Father’s Day was not created by greeting-card companies in order to sell products! Father’s Day has a simple and touching origin.
One Sunday in the early 1900s, a young woman in the state of Washington was sitting in church listening to a Mother’s Day sermon. Sonora Smart Dodd’s mother had died during Sonora’s childhood, and she and her five siblings had been brought up by their father alone. Sonora wanted to do something to honor the man who had been both mother and father to her, and let him know that she appreciated all that he had done for his children.
Sonora engaged the help of the Spokane Ministerial Association and the YMCA. Sonora wanted the celebration to be in June, the month of her father’s birth. The first “Fathers’ Day” celebration was June 19, 1910. On that Sunday, members of the YMCA went to church wearing roses – a red rose to pay tribute to a living father, a white rose to honor one who was deceased.
Father’s Day was recognized by Congress in the 1950s, and later was officially established as the third Sunday in June by Presidential proclamation.
Father’s Day is a day to honor fathers, stepfathers, grandfathers, and anyone who is a father figure in your life, a living representation of our Heavenly Father here on earth.
Here are the dates for Father’s Day celebrations around the world. And of course we have great gifts for men on CelebrateYourFaith.com!
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