Stir-Up Sunday

Stir-Up Sunday
   In the Anglican Church, the Collect for the Sunday before Advent, or the twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity, which occurs some time in late November, commences 'Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people', and all over the country this has given the day the colloquial name of Stir-Up Sunday. Brand reports a verse recited by children: 'Stir up, we beseech thee, The pudding in the pot, And when we get home, We'll eat it all hot'. The day was taken as a marker to advise the housewife to start her Christmas preparations, and the grocer to see to the Christmas stock of his shop (Sussex Archaeological Collections 33 (1883), 252-3). Brand, 1849: i. 414; Simpson, 1973: 141-2; 'Winter and the London Poor', The Times (25 Nov. 1863), 12.

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