21 x 21 Crossword: “The Beginning and End of Grace”
1. Lewis' Narnian Christ figure
6. Curse of childbirth (Gen 3:16)
10. A crime for which Nero accused and persecuted Christians
15. Nuns, briefly
18. Artemis is her Greek counterpart
19. Cry of lament in Amos 5:16
20. Maria, Reina del ___
21. "For ___ am a person subject to authority..." (Luke 7:8)
22. High Christology of John 1:14
26. Musician of Nehemiah, and kinsman of Zechariah (Neh 12:36)
27. Son of Zophath (1 Chr 7:36)
28. Angel leader?
29. "...every lie is ___ to the truth." (1 John 2:21)
30. Missing the mark
31. King of Sodom (Gen 14:2)
32. See of St. Salvius (d.584, f.9-10)
33. Exorcism targets
35. Mercury and Saturn
36. St. ___ of Aran, Irish abbot (d.530, f.3-21)
37. Patron saint of France
38. Biblical abode of the dead
41. "Lead us not ___ temptation"
42. Grandson of Esau (Gn 36:15)
43. "Fin ___ Principio" (1902 Leo XIII encyclical)
46. What Jesus did at Cana
51. Like the Negeb
52. Miriam has two
53. "Bendita Tu ___ entre todas las mujeres..." (Dios te salve, Maria)
54. St. Joan Elizabeth Bichier des ___, virgin (d.1838, f.8-26)
55. Father of Canaan
56. Father of Ehud (Judges 3:15)
57. Religious handout?
59. Graces
61. "___ es laut von fern und nah..." (Stille Nacht)
62. "Were You ___?" (Good Friday hymn)
63. Item often found in depictions of St. Ambrose
64. Beginning of some biblical book titles
67. Egyptian god
68. Epistle author
69. "Alleluia, the Strife is ___" (Easter hymn)
72. Land of Esau's descendants
73. "The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his ___." (Luke 1:49)
74. Wiseman
75. Descendant of Pahath-moab (Ezra 10:30)
76. Last Supper miracle
82. With 56 down, last name of St. Andrew Kim
83. St. ___, patron of young girls (d.304, f.1-21)
84. Seventh plague
85. Saints, to many Catholics
86. Saint-Michel and Saint-Gabriel, e.g.
87. Tolkien raven (LOTR)
88. Hebrew month
90. ___ Jung, star of "Mary of Nazareth"
92. “...these I have come to consider a ___ because of Christ.” (Phil 3:7)
93. Nicholas II, for one
94. "...y paz en la tierra a los hombres que ___ el Senor." (Gloria a Dios)
97. "___ te" (Part of the Gloria)
98. Ostia or Tel Aviv, e.g.
99. "Non ___ te" (Aquinas quote)
100. Son of Shobal (Gen 36:23)
101. God's purpose in 22, 46, and 76 across
106. Parish formation leaders
107. Fourth letter of the Greek alphabet
108. Son of Jerahmeel (1 Chr 2:25)
109. One of the original seven deacons (Acts 6:5)
110. Book after Is
111. Son of Lot
112. Solomonic
113. Herbrew months
1. ___ apple
2. Horeb
3. Father of Jehiel, Zetham and Joel (1 Chr 23:8)
4. Against, in the beginning?
5. Book after Mic
6. Sixth angelic choir
7. "...como era en el principio, ___ y siempre..." (Gloria al Padre)
8. Crucifix inscription
9. Land east of Eden
10. "___ Animi" (1932 Pius XI encyclical)
11. St. Catherine de ___, Dominican of Rome (d.1589, f.2-13)
12. Biblical grain measure
13. Srs. of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy, initially
14. Ark builder (DR)
15. St. Edith ___ (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)
16. Juan's tilma-full
17. "Gottes ___, o wie lacht..." (Stille Nacht)
21. "___ tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte..." (Salve Regina)
23. Father of Gaal (Jgs 9:26)
24. Prideful son of Brego (LOTR)
25. Death and Hades weapon (Rev 6:8)
31. Fearless
32. "Quinquagesimo ___" (1929 Pius XI encyclical)
33. "___ Gracias al Senor" (Spanish hymn)
34. City in Judah (Jos 15:34)
35. "It is hard for you to kick against the ___." (Acts 26:14)
36. Treebeard and Quickbeam, notably (LOTR)
37. "___ Quam Maxime" (1769 Clement XIV encyclical)
38. Iranian for "king"
39. Greek goddess of marriage
40. Tall Canaanites (Deut 2:10)
41. "___ flower of Sharon..." (SoS 2:1)
42. Midmorning prayer
43. "___ Si, Senor!" (Donna Pena hymn)
44. Ally of Abraham against the Elamites (Gen 14:13)
45. St. James the ___, Son of Alphaeus (f.5-3)
47. Correct, as text
48. "Which ___, and art, and evermore shall be." (Holy, Holy Holy)
49. Endures
50. Kind of offering
56. See 82 across
57. Number of Johannine epistles
58. Father of Serug (Gen 11:20)
59. "Lumen ___" (2013 Francis encyclical)
60. "___ Maria" (Schubert masterpiece)
61. Sepulcher
62. Archaeologist's finds
63. "Great" saint of Cluny
64. "The Pharisees have taken their ___ on the chair of Moses..." (Mat 32:2)
65. Tobiah's mother-in-law
66. "The da Vinci ___" (controversial Dan Brown novel)
67. Hellenic hell
68. She killed Sisera with a tent peg
69. Aroma
70. Shusaku ___, Japanese Catholic author of "Silence"
71. Beams
73. Mesopotamian goddess (2 Mac 1:13)
74. Missionary Srs. of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God, initially
75. Cain's younger brother
77. Elwin ___, C.S. Lewis character
78. Things to dye at Easter?
79. "...to present you as a ___ virgin to Christ." (2 Cor 11:2)
80. They powered Peter's boat
81. From the Red Sea the Israelites "...marched out to the wilderness of ___." (Ex 15:22)
86. Buenos ___ , see of Jorge Bergoglio
87. "But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, ___..." (Mk 7:11, DR)
88. Member of one of Josephus' four Jewish sects
89. "She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and ___ him in a manger..." (Luke 2:7)
90. "We ___ you..." (Gloria)
91. Decrease
92. Catholic Venetian Renaissance artist Lorenzo ___ (d.1556)
93. Era
94. ___ Christi
95. Lord's abode
96. Terms of agreement?
97. Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, initially
98. Book before Heb
99. Tolkien dwarf
100. "Ars amatoria" poet
102. St. ___ of Herzfeld, widow (d.825, f.9-4)
103. One of twelve in Aaron’s breastplate
104. Sacred or holy animal?
105. Saintly virgin (d.570, f.1-15)