Since then, it has become a tradition to hold Father’s Day every third Sunday of June. However, YMCA pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, so it was decided that they celebrate Father’s Day two Sundays later: on June 19, 1910. That date was the third Sunday of the month. Dodd initially suggested to hold the very first Father’s Day celebration on June 5, on her father’s birthday. She then suggested to a pastor in the YMCA to organize a Father’s Day celebration that will complement Jarvis’s Mother’s Day. And she was doubly inspired because her dad was a single parent who raised six children on his own.
Dodd then thought of a noble idea to honor fathers as well. Sonora Smart Dodd, daughter of a US Civil War veteran, was inspired by a sermon from Anna Jarvis who was promoting Mother’s Day the year before, in 1909. The Father’s Day that Filipinos celebrate today has its origins from the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in Spokane, Washington.
In short, today’s celebration of Father’s Day (and Mother’s Day) is BASED ON PROFITEERING whereas the real Filipino celebration of Father’s Day is SPIRITUAL (feast of Saint Joseph, the adoptive father of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the patron saint of fathers). It was the US neocolonialist pigs who subtly imposed the modern-day commemoration of Father’s Day every 3rd Sunday of June for commercial purposes: to sell greeting cards, items that fathers’ love (such as tools, electronics, and other similar gadgets), special promos in restaurants, discounts in resorts, and the like. I say, “no way”.įor us Filipinos, the real Father’s Day ( Día del Padre) should be commemorated every March 19th. Some also participate in the 21 kilometer race in Mexico city, the “Carrera Día del Padre 21K Bosque de Tlalpan.They say it’s Father’s Day today. On the third Sunday in June, though it’s not an official holiday, Mexicans give gifts to their fathers and celebrate with food and music. Just like it does for Mother’s Day, Mexico puts on more festivities to honor its fathers than its northern neighbors. The King gives an annual speech, while tradition has it that Thais give their fathers and grandfathers the Canna flower, which is considered to have a masculine association.Īussies celebrate Father’s Day on the first Sunday in September, which is also the first Sunday of spring there. 12-and fathers on the birthday of the widely admired King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The Southeast Asian country celebrates mothers on the birthday of Queen Sirikit on Aug. But the idea of honoring one’s father can also be linked to the much older celebration of Saint Joseph on March 19 (other countries, like Spain, still observe Father’s Day then).
Today, lighters are typically replaced with drawings or small gifts. Father’s Day in India is still an emerging holiday and, by those who observe it, is celebrated in much the same way and on the same day as in the United States.įather’s Day in France is held on the third Sunday in June and can trace its recent history to a company that makes lighters and marketed them as gifts for smoking fathers.
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