DECEMBER 12, 2025 – ST. VALERY, ABBOT – ST. FINIAN, BISHOP.
- Our Lady of Guadalupe, Empress of the Americas (1531). (Current, Traditional)
THIS Saint was born at Auvergne, in the sixth century, and in his childhood kept his father’s sheep. He was yet young when he took the monastic habit in the neighboring monastery of St. Antony. Seeking the most perfect means of advancing in the paths of all virtues, he passed from this house to the more austere monastery of St. Germanus of Auxerre, and finally to that of Luxeu, where he spent many years. He travelled into Neustria, where he converted many infidels, and assembled certain fervent disciples, and laid the foundation of a monastery. Saint Valery went to receive the recompense of his happy perseverance on the 12th of December in 622.
St. Finian was a native of Leinster, was instructed in the elements of Christian virtue by the disciples of St. Patrick, and passed over into Wales; but about the year 520 he returned into Ireland. To propagate the work of God, our Saint established several monasteries and schools. St. Finian was chosen and consecrated bishop of Clonard. In the love of his flock and his zeal for their salvation, he was infirm with the infirm, and wept with those that wept. He healed the souls, and often also the bodies, of those that applied to him. He departed to our Lord on the 12th of December in 552.
WORD OF THE DAY
PREJUDICE. In moral philosophy a preconceived opinion formulated without consideration of known facts and usually based on erroneous knowledge. It leads to wrong judgments and renders a person blind to reason and closed to convincing argument. It often violates justice because prejudiced people tend to ignore others’ rights. They are so preoccupied with their own version of persons and societies, that they prejudge adversely. Prejudice is the common basis for sinful rash judgment.
Modern Catholic Dictionary, Fr. John Hardon SJ (Get the real one at Eternal Life — don’t accept an abridged or edited version of this masterpiece!)
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