Ordinary Time: February 24th
Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Other Commemorations: Ethelbert of Kent, King (RM)
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February 24, 2025 (Readings on USCCB website)
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Seventh Week in Ordinary Time: Grant, we pray, almighty God, that, always pondering spiritual things, we may carry out in both word and deed that which is pleasing to you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
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Today is Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Ethelbert of Kent (552-616), king. Ethelbert was the first Anglo-Saxon monarch to embrace the Christian Faith. In the 597, he welcomed the missionaries sent by Pope Saint Gregory to England under Saint Augustine. He founded Canterbury and Rochester Cathedrals, and Saint Paul’s, London. He died A.D. 616, and was buried in the Canterbury Abbey.
St. Ethelbert of Kent (or Albert)
Ethelbert (or Albert) was (560–616), King of Kent. He married Bertha, daughter of the Frankish king, Charibert, and afforded her every opportunity for the exercise of her religion. When he was baptized by Saint Augustine, 597, his supremacy in southern Britain led to the baptism of 10,000 of his countrymen within a few months. Thenceforth he was the watchful father of the Anglo-Saxon Church.
Among others he founded at Canterbury the church which was afterwards to be the primatial cathedral of England. He issued their first written laws to the English people. He was popularly called Saint Albert, and is known under this name as titular saint of numerous churches in England. His relics were preserved at Canterbury.
—from New Catholic Dictionary
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- St. Ethelbert or Albert was originally buried in the side chapel of Saint Martin in the abbey church of Saints Peter and Paul, with his relics later translated to Canterbury.
