21 x 21 Crossword: “Christmas Joy”
1. Turns from sin
8. "___ into this world for judgment..." (John 9:39)
13. Publicist Brownson who converted to Catholicism in 1844
20. ___ VIII, Duke of Savoy (antipope Felix V)
21. Adversary of Solomon (1 Kgs 11:23)
22. St. Margaret of ___, patron saint of the falsely accused (d.1297, f.2-22)
23. With 44, 67, 92, and 117 across, the first verse of the Responsorial Psalm for Christmas Mass during the day (Psalm 98:1)
25. Goes up, as to heaven
26. Christmas decoration
27. "Bedita tu eres ___ todas las mujeres..." (Dios te Salve, Maria)
28. French town associated with St. John Vianney
29. "Mazel ___!"
30. Hand signals for the hearing impaired, briefly
31. Archeologists' finds
34. "Preferential ___ for the poor"
37. Thomas J. ___, SJ, senior analyst at Religious News Service
38. "Lord, open my ___, and my mouth..." (Prayer of David in Ps 51:17)
40. Pope St. ___, martyr (166-175)
44. See 23 across
50. Puts oil on, the rite way?
51. The Society of Jesus, e.g.
52. Contacts someone on a buddy list, perhaps
53. Mormons, initially
54. Edge
55. Catholic school choir director's degree, maybe (abbr.)
56. Mary's mom
58. Wife of Esau
59. Absalom's army commander (2 Sam 17:25)
62. "___ lesson from the fig tree." (Mat 24:32)
65. "___ Dei"
67. See 23 across
73. ___ Cuore Immacolato di Maria, minor basilica in Rome
74. Bl. John Duns ___, OFM, philosopher and theologian (d.1308, f.11-8)
75. What Luther thought the Book of James was "made of"?
76. Book after Neh.
79. Greek goddess of marriage
81. Nancy, in Nancy
82. Elijah's beginning in Greece?
83. Bee follower?
84. "...ruega ___ nosotros, pecadores..." (Dios te Salve Maria)
85. Spouse of Abram
88. "Those who wear fine clothing are in royal ___." (Mat 11:8)
92. See 23 across
96. St. Peter Damian's see
97. Tolkien tree shepherds
98. "...night and day we worked, so ___ to burden any of you." (2 Thess 3:8)
99. The E of HRE
102. St. Therese's family name
104. Alley org.
107. Book after Esth
110. "...et homo factus ___." (Credo)
111. "I will not ___ you orphans..." (John 14:18)
113. Word repeated by Jesus on the cross
114. St. John de ___, North American Martyr (d.1646, f.10-19)
117. See 23 across
121. The king that returned in "The Return of the King" (LOTR)
122. One of the archangels
123. Saint-___ (Loire's capital)
124. "I am the Lord, there is no other, there ___ besides me." (Is 45:5)
125. Nicholas James ___, Bishop Emeritus of the Melkite Eparchy of Newton
126. "He seized him and ___ to choke him, demanding, ‘Pay back what you owe.’" (Mat 18:28)
1. Haile Selassie disciple
2. Eastern V.I.P.'s
3. Catholic Answers Live "Flannel ___" (call-in program)
4. LifeTeen for Middle School
5. Thing not torn by 153 large fish (John 21:11)
6. Et cum spiritu ___
7. Jettisoned jet?
8. Saintly widow of the martyr St. Castulus
9. The fighting Irish?
10. Ancestor of Jesus (Mat 1:13-14)
11. St. Thomas ___, "A Man For All Seasons"
12. "Their ___ is destruction." (Phil 3:19)
13. Carthusians, initially
14. St. John Baptist de ___, priest (1764, f.5-23)
15. St. ___ of Slane, Irish druid convert of St. Patrick (d.513, f.11-2)
16. Bernadette, e.g. (Abbr.)
17. "___ es laut von fern und nah" (Stille Nacht)
18. Shusaku ___, Japanese Catholic author of "Silence"
19. Srs. of the Assumption, initially
24. Saintly mother of Constantine
28. Semicircular recess in a church
31. "I have ___ sackcloth on my skin..." (Job 16:15)
32. "And do not subject us to the final ___..." (Mat 6:13
33. "...___ tus ojos misericordiosos" (Dios te Salve, Reina)
34. City belonging to the tribe of Benjamin (Jos 18:23)
35. Brigittine monks, initially
36. Land east of Eden
37. Portuguese king
38. City in central Israel
39. High dudgeon
41. "We Have Been ___" (Haas hymn)
42. St. ___ of Aran, early Irish abbot (d.530, f.3-21)
43. 20th Hebrew letter
44. "Pieni l'___" (1906 Pius X encyclical)
45. "___ is an Island" (Merton book)
46. "For they either ___ with enjoyment, or prophesy lies..." (Wis 14:28)
47. Beauvais brothers
48. Catholic tennis great Martina ___
49. Prayer enders, often
50. Kine of ___, a species of oxen in Rhun (LOTR)
55. Wadi in 1 Samuel (30:9-21)
57. Book between Micah and Habakkuk
58. ___ was in the beginning...
60. Society Devoted to the Sacred Heart, initially
61. Parseghian of Notre Dame
62. Tempters
63. IBM competitor
64. "Baruch atah ___" (Hebrew prayer start)
66. Theologian Hans ___ von Balthasar
68. Armando Xavier ___, Bishop Emeritus of Fresno, CA
69. Kind of philosophers Paul engaged in discussion in Athens (Acts 17:18)
70. El ___, Catholic artist (1541-1614)
71. One who despises
72. "___ the night before Christmas..."
76. Root meaning of "catechism"
77. "...and fill the water of the ___..." (Gen 1:22)
78. The Word pitched his among us
80. "...that they may be brought to perfection ___..." (John 17:33)
84. Last name of seven Vietnamese martyrs
86. "Go to the ___, O sluggard, study her ways..." (Prov 6:6)
87. Airstreams, and such
88. "...he saw Levi, son of Alphaeus, sitting at the customs ___." (Mark 2:14)
89. Ancestor of Jesus (Luke 3:33)
90. See of St. Irenaeus
91. Away from the bow
93. "tertia ___ resurrexit a mortuis" (Symbolum Apostolorum)
94. "Which ___, and art, and evermore shall be." (Holy, Holy Holy)
95. Biblical weeds
100. Peter of Alcantara?
101. "...behold, ___ to you prophets and wise men..." (Mat 23:34)
102. Canadian Catholic musician Matt ___
103. City of St. Teresa and St. John
104. "Then the Lord God provided a gourd ___." (Jon 4:6)
105. "Abram’s wife Sarai had ___ him no children." (Gen 16:1)
106. "Well-___ bolts of lightning will go forth..." (Wis 5:21)
107. One of David's "Thirty" warriors (1 Chr 11:29)
108. Roman war lord?
109. Biblical family group
111. Italian bread?
112. Tall Canaanites (Deut 2:10)
113. Ogler
115. "...the forerunner of his deeds of long ___..." (Prov 8:22)
116. Christmas drink
117. Czech theologian, Jan ___, burned as a defiant heretic (d.1415)
118. Hebrew letters
119. Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, by Ludwig ___
120. Wife of Jacob (DR)