I often wonder why ours is when it is, so what else, I googled it, and found this on wikipedia:
"Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors hadn't enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June."
So it's the 3rd Sunday in June for us because the pastors needed more time to write their sermons! Who knew!
I had no idea why ours fell on the second Sunday of August, but you made me curious, and the only explanation I found came from the same article on Wikipedia.
In Brazil Father's Day (Dia dos Pais, in Portuguese) celebrated 3 months after Mother's Day, on the second Sunday of August. A publicist Sylvio Bhering in the mid-1950s selected the date in honor of Saint Joachim, patriarch of family (as well as the Catholic day of godfathers). It is not an official holiday (see Public holidays in Brazil), but it is widely observed and typically involves spending time with and giving gifts to one's father.
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Date: 2012-06-17 04:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-06-17 09:50 pm (UTC)Happy Father's Day. Ours is on the second Sunday of August.
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Date: 2012-06-17 11:45 pm (UTC)"Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors hadn't enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June."
So it's the 3rd Sunday in June for us because the pastors needed more time to write their sermons! Who knew!
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Date: 2012-06-18 09:17 pm (UTC)In Brazil Father's Day (Dia dos Pais, in Portuguese) celebrated 3 months after Mother's Day, on the second Sunday of August. A publicist Sylvio Bhering in the mid-1950s selected the date in honor of Saint Joachim, patriarch of family (as well as the Catholic day of godfathers). It is not an official holiday (see Public holidays in Brazil), but it is widely observed and typically involves spending time with and giving gifts to one's father.
Bless Wikipedia. *g*
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Date: 2012-06-19 12:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-06-17 11:38 pm (UTC)