![]() She even stopped promoting it to pursue further studies in Chicago, Illinois during the 1920s. Unlike Jarvis’s Mother’s Day, Dodd’s concept did not become a huge hit on its first few years. 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. In Mexico it is an opportunity for the family to unite and give special recognition to papas.They say it’s Father’s Day today. In Mexico, the celebration began to become popular in the late 50’s and became a commercially promoted day at that time. While most nations celebrate Father’s Day on the 3rd Sunday in June, many others recognize dad’s on other dates. President Richard Nixon signed it into law and Father’s day became a US National holiday. Congress refused to recognize the holiday until 1966 when President Lyndon B Johnson issued a presidential proclamation designating Father’s Day as the third Sunday in June. Three years later the holiday was introduced to the US Congress and in 1916 then President Woodrow Wilson traveled to Spokane to celebrate the day. Dodd organized the celebration – originally planned to commemorate her father’s birthday of June 5th, but the date was pushed back to the third Sunday in June because there was not enough time to organize the event. He was a civil War veteran and single parent his wife died in childbirth to his sixth child. Two years later, Sonora Smart Dodd in Spokane Washington organized Father’s Day on Jto recognize her father. It appears that it was a single year celebration. Father’s Day was first celebrated in West Virginia to commemorate the lives of 210 miners who died in a mining accident.
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