[Gratitude] Fathersday - way children honor their parents (traditions)

[Samana Johann]

Being fathers-day tomorrow, an actually modern way of reminder, it might be possible an inspiration for others how parents are honored in different cultures and traditions and maybe you feel inspired to make a share.

Here is Cambodia it's an nearly everyone's tradition, rooted in Brahmanic but also strong in the Buddhas tradition that children would organize fests to honor their parents and to pay devotion and respect to them. Aside of inviting family, friends and neighbors (which means in villages the whole village) to take part on their merits toward their parents monks would be invited to receive food and gifts, often, when asked, give teachings about gratitude and the value of ones parents. Invited would take part on the merits. There are no special dates for such and it is left to the child, children, when and how to organize such.

Mostly it is made while parents are alive but even when older people would not stop to repeat such merits for their departured. Organizing such one is obligated and seldom one who would miss such, although some get aware of it's value sometimes when it can no more personally and direct made.

A blessing: friends when the need arises.
A blessing: contentment with whatever there is.
Merit at the ending of life is a blessing.
A blessing: the abandoning of all suffering
& stress.
A blessing in the world: reverence to your mother.
A blessing: reverence to your father as well.
A blessing in the world: reverence to a contemplative.
A blessing: reverence for a brahman, too.
A blessing into old age is virtue.
A blessing: conviction established.
A blessing: discernment attained.
The non-doing of evil things is
a blessing. ~ Nagavagga: Elephants​

And: Ever though of the value in doings such by yourself?

 

[Samana Johann]

Just saw that such is somehow new to people in US and merely a gender-equality compromise... as far as you wiki reports.

A customary day for the celebration of fatherhood in Catholic Europe is known to date back to at least the 1508, and it is observed on March 19, as the feast day of Saint Joseph, who is referred to as the fatherly Nutritor Domini ("Nourisher of the Lord") in Catholicism and "the putative father of Jesus" in southern European tradition. This celebration was brought to the Americas by the Spanish and Portuguese. The Catholic Church actively supported the custom of a celebration of fatherhood on St. Joseph's Day from either the last years of the 14th century or from the early 15th century,[1] apparently on the initiative of the Franciscans.[2]

In the Coptic Church, the celebration of fatherhood is also observed on St Joseph's Day, but the Copts observe this celebration on July 20. This Coptic celebration may date back to the fifth century.

Father's Day was not celebrated in the US, outside Catholic traditions, until the 20th century. As a civic celebration in the US, it was inaugurated in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day by celebrating fathers and male parenting....