Stir-up Sunday

Meaning

Proper Noun

• The last Sunday before the season of Advent, on which families traditionally gather in their kitchens to prepare Christmas pudding.

Origin

• From the opening words of the collect for the day in the Book of Common Prayer of 1549 and later (a translation of the Roman Missal's collect "Excita, quæsumus"): "Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people..."