21 x 21 Crossword: “Christmas Joy”

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  • 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)

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  • 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)

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