1. Absalom's army commander (2 Sam 17:25)

6. Serve as lector

10. Congregation of the Missionary Carmelites of St. Teresa, initially

14. The "R" of OAR

16. "...first let me say farewell to my family at ___.” (Luke 9:61)

17. St. Augustine's position in Canterbury

18. "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like ___ thrown into the sea." (Mat 13:47)

19. The fava on the St. Joseph's Altar, e.g.

20. Saintly Palestinian missionary (d.304, f.4-24)

21. Anger

22. Srs. of St. Dorothy, initially

23. Egyptian plagues number

24. Apostolic and patristic, e.g.

25. St. John ___ Bosco, founder

26. 41 across told St. Augustine of Canterbury to replace the local pagan cult with the shrine of this Roman martyr

30. Break the seventh commandment

33. Culpability

34. Son of Gad (Gen 46:16)

35. "Allow it now, for thus it is fitting for ___ fulfill all righteousness." (Mat 3:15)

36. One of David's "Thirty" warriors (1 Chr 11:32)

37. Like the Negeb

38. Bk. before Hab

39. Some are holy

40. Feature of much poetry

41. Pope who sent St. Augustine of Canterbury to England

43. Son of Abijam, King of Judah (1 Kings 15:8)

44. What John did in his mother's womb

45. Book before Num

46. ___ Tafari (Haile Selassie)

49. 11 down head

51. New people with old ideas?

53. Like the Negeb

54. Belgian Trappist monastery specialty brew

55. Position of 32 down, whom St. Augustine of Canterbury converted to Christianity

57. "Hurting in the Church" author Fr. Thomas ___

58. "...the judge will hand you over to the guard, and you will be thrown ___." (Mat 5:25)

59. "Quinquagesimo ___" (1929 Pius XI encyclical)

60. Sunday privilege and obligation

61. Modern amanuensis

1. Ishmael's people

2. Persia eunuch (Esth 1:14)

3. Where Nimrod's kingdom originated (Gen 10:10)

4. "Gottes ___, o wie lacht..." (Stille Nacht)

5. Vatican vestment

6. City in Assyria (Gen 10:12)

7. Root meaning of "catechism"

8. Egyptian sun god

9. Daughters of St. Paul, initially

10. "When they had gone on some ninety miles, they reached ___, where there were certain Jews known as Toubians." (2 Mac 12:17)

11. That of Sts. Peter and Paul was the first of to be established by St. Augustine of Canterbury when he reached England

12. Jesuit Pierre-Jean de ___, nicknamed "Friend of Sitting Bull"

13. Ninth Hebrew letter

15. Temple vestment fabric

21. It might be holy

23. Lord of the Rings "island"

24. Ancestor of Jesus (Luke 3:25)

25. The Chinese "way"

26. Cardinal Paolo ___, Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

27. "In Manus ___ Domine"

28. Thummim partner

29. Blood and water flowed from Jesus'

30. Vocalized to a melody

31. Nicholas II, for one

32. The 55 across whom St. Augustine of Canterbury converted along with his kingdom

33. Anger

36. Dolores ___, OSB, actress who became a nun

37. "___! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days..." (Mk 15:29)

39. Egyptian Christian

40. Bible edition: Abbr.

42. Dragon Slayer saint

43. Fabulous fabulist

45. The Word (Gk)

46. Thomas J. ___, SJ, senior analyst at Religious News Service

47. Tributary of the Dead Sea

48. "They ___ king over the land, nor do they give rain." (Bar 6:52)

49. Hebrew "Daddy"

50. "Yes, Father, such has ___ your gracious will." (Mat 11:26)

51. Saint called "the Apostle of Georgia" (d.335, f.1-14)

52. Tolkien's Fangorn forest residents

53. Part of an ACTS retreat

55. St. Andrew ___, the first Korean-born Catholic priest (d.1846, f.9-20)

56. Priests, briefly