FATHER’S DAY 2022. It takes place later than Mother’s Day, but there is no question of forgetting its date. To find inspiration and celebrate your dad in a personalized way, here are gift ideas, cards, message templates or poems.
[Mis à jour le 24 mai 2022 à 17h07] Father’s Day 2022 is scheduled at Sunday June 19 next in France. The inhabitants of France therefore have, as every year, three weeks more to unearth their possible gifts than for Mother’s Day. This last celebration (see below) takes place on the last Sunday of May. Find out below our gift ideas, whether for a first Father’s Day or a personalized present in general. Also check out our text, poem, message and card templates for inspiration… as well as explanations of the origins of this celebration.
The date for Father’s Day 2022 is set for Sunday, June 19just three weeks after Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 29.
You wonder where this party comes from? If it has entered the customs since the 15th century, it did not really take place at the same time of the year. In those days, Father’s Day was celebrated on March 19 in honor of Jesus’ adoptive father, Saint Joseph. The holiday disappears for a while after the separation of Church and State. The Father’s Day that we know today, the one that takes place every year on the third Sunday of June, is actually quite recent. And it no longer has much to do with Saint-Joseph. Father’s Day originated with a lighter company that was looking to increase sales in the 1950s. The state officially recognized the holiday by decree in 1952.
The average budget devoted to the present father is 49.98 euros. Here are some additional ideas for everyone! For dads who love comics, this is the perfect gift. Olivier Delcroix lists his list of “100 cult comic book characters”, from Mafalda to Nickel-plated Feet, Gaston Lagaffe and Spirou.
- An “I Love Dad” gift box of Wonderboxso that he can choose his experience – gourmet dinner, helicopter flight, oenology workshop, back massage, Ferrari driving… (49.90€)… or go see a football match
- An indoor plantlike the Monstera proposed by Nature and discoveries (€49.90, available online only, cachepot optional)
- The new coffee machine Nespresso Vertuo Next (149€)
- A tasting box of 6 rums from around the worldat the house of Bienmanger.com (62.90€)
- A gourmet box “Stroll in Corsica”from Bienmanger.com (34.95€)
- A free-standing aluminum photo frameby smart photo (24.95€)
- A subscription to a wine box 3, 6, 9 or 12 months, on Myvitibox (from 20€ / month)
- Azzaro Chrome Aqua eau de toilette with grapefruit-basil-vetiver accords, 100ml (€47.24 on Marionnaud.fr)
- An instant camera Fuji Instax brown, via La Fnac.com (114.99€)
- A scratch card made by you to express your affection (explanations on france blue)
It is not always easy to choose a present for a first Father’s Day with baby. Even more than for a “classic” Father’s Day, the personalized gifts popular, like the aluminum hexagons from Smart Photo (see here), which also offers photo books (see here), a photo on canvas (see here), a personalized cushion (see here) or a printed bowl. As for Cheerz, which defines itself as an “easy photo printing site”, it offers a collection dedicated to both new dads and those who have had this role for a long time: hexagonal photo magnets, photo album, photo on aluminum , or retro photo canvas (see their collection).
Sometimes the greatest gift comes simply from words. There are many ways to wish for a happy birthday to his daddy. For children anyway, the poem for dad remains a timeless, which will always please! If you have a moderate desire to play Baudelaire, the message remains with your words or the little written attention. Finding a card or finding and decorating an original piece of paper shouldn’t be too difficult either, even on Father’s Day Sunday. Unsheathing his mobile to send a nice SMS to his dad either. Sending a virtual card remains a simple and quick exercise. Linternaute.com also offers to wish a happy Father’s Day with special and often animated cards! Discover our cards and message ideas for Father’s Day below.
Although Christianity has no direct connection with Father’s Day, many sources have pointed to the glorification of fatherhood in this religious current. The “creator” God of the Bible is often referred to as “God the Father”. A state of affairs reinforced by the trinity of Catholic theology, which separates the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Moreover, the father figure is present in the place taken by Abraham, father of believers (19th century BC) and biblical patriarch. The Jewish, Arab and Christian peoples all claim his descent.
Moreover, the father was once celebrated via the figure of the Roman “Pater familias”. This head of the family had undisputed authority over the wife, children or slaves. And was considered the cornerstone of ancient society. The motif has moreover crossed the centuries until our days: among the Christians, the fathers were of course the members of the clergy. The Pope himself is named Holy Father by Catholics.
March 19, the date of Saint Joseph, has long been the occasion to celebrate fatherhood in Catholic, Lutheran or Anglican worship. Indeed, in the Bible, Joseph is the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. He is engaged to the young woman when she finds herself pregnant by the action of the Holy Spirit. Described as a “wise man”, he accepts the child and educates him: he is recognized as a saint in the Christian tradition. In Spain, it is even this date that is retained as being that of Father’s Day.
The celebration of Father’s Day was born in the United States. Young Sonora Smart Dodd (1882-1978) was the daughter of long-time widowed Civil War veteran Henry Jackson Smart. In 1909, she heard about Anna Jarvis’ initiative to initiate a Mother’s Day during a sermon delivered at a Methodist church in Spokane, Washington. The young woman then calls for a celebration of paternity, in addition to Mother’s Day. She even offers the birthday date of her parent, June 5. The pastors of the region seized on the idea, even if they decided to establish the feast on the third Sunday of June: the first Father’s Day was organized in Spokane on June 19, 1910.
If the celebrations of Spokane quickly sink into anonymity, the idea of Father’s Day is launched. In the 1920s, US President Calvin Coolidge tried to make it an official holiday, but clashed with Congress. Parliamentarians fear that this reminder of paternal virtues will become, like Mother’s Day, a commercial barnum. It was not until 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson recognized the ritual in an official proclamation. Six years later, Richard Nixon signs a law making it a day of national celebration. Father’s Day is definitely set for the third Sunday in June.
Father’s Day was celebrated for the first time in France in 1952. As surprising as it may seem, we owe this arrival to a lighter manufacturer. The Flaminaire company, located in Redon, Brittany, is inspired by the American celebration and the windfall generated by the purchases of children and companions. On his posters, we can then read: “Our dads told us, for Father’s Day, they all want a Flaminaire”. Very quickly, companies and the media took up this motif, which responded a few weeks later to Mother’s Day.