DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The California Flower Mall in downtown Los Angeles is ready Sunday for those people looking for last-minute flowers for mom to celebrate Mother’s Day.<\/p>\n
Sunday is also Mexican Mother’s Day, which is always celebrated on May 10. Mother’s Day in the U.S. is celebrated on the second Sunday of May.<\/p>\n
More than 30 vendors have wholesale-priced bouquets and custom arrangements. And if you visit from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. you’ll be treated to a piano serenade.<\/p>\n
The mall is located on San Pedro Street, between 8th and 9th streets.<\/p>\n
Lynwood celebrates D\u00eda de las Madres<\/p>\n
Meanwhile in Lynwood, Plaza Mexico is inviting moms to its celebration on Sunday. The shopping and cultural center will have roses for moms, mariachis, and other live entertainment and family activities.<\/p>\n
The D\u00eda de las Madres event goes from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
In Lynwood, Plaza Mexico is inviting moms to its celebration on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Mothers to receive special blessing, flower at cathedral Mother’s Day Mass<\/p>\n
Mother’s Day will be marked at Dodger Stadium, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, at Plaza Mexico in Lynwood and Hillside Memorial Park & Mortuary in Culver City on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Like at all major league stadiums Sunday, on-field personnel for the Dodgers-Atlanta Braves game will wear the special breast cancer awareness pink ribbon decals on jerseys and may wear pink socks, wristbands and batting gloves. Major League players may use pink, customized bats. Commemorative base jewels and lineup cards featuring the special Mother’s Day\/breast cancer awareness logo also will be used.<\/p>\n
Mothers will receive a special blessing and a flower at all Sunday Masses at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.<\/p>\n
A Mother’s Day remembrance service at Hillside Memorial Park & Mortuary will begin at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
A brief history of Mother’s Day<\/p>\n
Mother’s Day was initially proposed in 1870 by activist-poet Julia Ward Howe as a call for peace and disarmament. It was celebrated in 18 cities in 1873, continued for another 10 years or so in Boston under Howe’s backing, then died out.<\/p>\n
The second attempt to establish Mother’s Day began on May 9, 1907, the second anniversary of the death of Anna Jarvis’ mother Ann.<\/p>\n
Jarvis invited several friends to her home in Philadelphia in commemoration of her mother’s life, which included providing nursing care and promoting better sanitation during the Civil War, helping save lives on both sides.<\/p>\n
Jarvis announced to her friends her idea of a day of national celebration in honor of mothers, which was first celebrated on May 10, 1908, at the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia, where Ann Jarvis worshipped.<\/p>\n
The church is now known as the International Mother’s Day Shrine.<\/p>\n
West Virginia Gov. William E. Glasscock issued the first Mother’s Day proclamation in 1910.<\/p>\n
By 1911, it was celebrated in nearly every state. President Woodrow Wilson signed a congressional joint resolution in 1914 designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day nationally.<\/p>\n
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