21 x 21 Crossword: “Complete and Perfect”
1. "Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who ___ you for a reason for your hope..." (1 Pt 3:15)
5. Mitch ___, SJ, EWTN show host
10. Non-ordained
14. "[But] whatever gains I had, these I have come to consider ___..." (Phil 3:7)
19. Missionary Srs. of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God, initially
20. Stop on the Exodus route (Ex 13:20)
21. Saintly daughter of St. Hilary of Poitiers
22. Jordan, e.g.
23. Disney's "___ & Stitch"
24. "...the Father is greater ___." (John 14:28)
25. "A partridge in a ___ tree."
26. "...you never gave me ___ young goat to feast on with my friends." (Luke 15:29)
27. Those with whom we say/sing the Sanctus at mass
31. Kind of schism?
32. Byzantine chalice veil
33. "Domine ___, dimitte nobis debita nostra..." (Oratio Fatimae)
34. Talmudic method of interpretation
38. "...the angel of the Lord stood in a narrow ___..." (Num 22:24)
40. Pirate quaff?
43. Clay (Heb.)
47. "Very," in music
49. Pope from 366-384 (f.12-11)
52. Defining words of the two natures of Christ
56. Cova da ___, Fatima apparition site
57. "Discernment, tongues, and eyes, ears, and ___ for thinking he gave them." (Sir 17:6)
58. Historic periods
59. "...that they may be brought to perfection ___..." (John 17:33)
60. David's prophet (2 Sam 24:11)
61. Currency exchange charge
62. Wise men from the east
63. St. Maria Cristina ___, foundress (d.1906, f.1-20)
64. Slattern
65. "...through them you may come to ___ in the divine nature..." (2 Pt 1:4)
67. “What does this ___?” (Acts 2:12)
68. Thread holders
71. "You will conceive in your womb and bear ___..." (Luke 1:31)
72. “Go ___ in the Pool of Siloam.” (John 9:7)
73. The Latin "I love"?
76. Informed about, slangily
77. Michelangelo and Verdi's fortes
78. Maria, Reina del ___
80. Responses given during some sacraments
81. Biblical reference work to help locate any and every word in the Bible
85. "Caritas in ___" (2009 Benedict XVI encyclical)
86. Son of Enan, and leader of the Naphtalites (Num 2:29)
87. "Behold, ___ all things new." (Rev 21:5)
88. "Set me ___ seal upon your heart..." (SoS 8:6)
89. Breton or Welsh
91. "But the ___ that contains everything is the one that the Son of God received in his incarnation: JESUS." (CCC #2666)
94. Swiss canton
96. Sun, e.g.
98. Tolkien elf of note
103. Phrase about the size of God's realm in "Holy God We Praise Thy Name"
110. "...you have not yet resisted to the ___ of shedding blood." (Heb 12:4)
111. "Likewise, no one pours new wine ___ old wineskins." (Mark 2:22)
112. City in 1 Mac 5:26
113. Father of Adoniram (1 Kgs 4:6)
114. "Mit Brennender ___" (1937 Pius XI encyclical)
115. Prophet to King Asa (2 Chr 15:8)
116. Realm of Abimelech (Gen 20:2)
117. Holder Knabe im lockigen ___..." (Stille Nacht)
118. "If he does not listen, take ___ two others along with you..." (Mat 18:16)
119. "God is not a human being who speaks falsely, ___ mortal, who feels regret." (Num 23:19)
120. "...behold, ___ to you prophets and wise men..." (Mat 23:34)
121. Mary's mom
1. "A copy of the decree to be promulgated ___ in every province was published to all the peoples..." (Esth 3:14)
2. "Turn your gaze from me, that I may ___ before I depart to be no more." (Ps 39:14)
3. Slays
4. ___ Hahn, Catholic scholar and apologist
5. First emperor of all Russia
6. Where the kingdom of God is? (Luke 10:9)
7. Branch of Mahayana Buddhism
8. St. Anna ___, Boxer Rebellion Martyr (d.1900, f.7-22)
9. Friend of St. Flora of Beaulieu?
10. Experience a loss of faith
11. "When he finds ___ of great price..." (Mat 13:46)
12. Qom home
13. Conclave members
14. Fields
15. Bl. Tit ___ Chinezu, Romanian bishop and martyr under Communism (d.1955, f.1-15)
16. "...which grows today and is thrown into the ___ tomorrow..." (Mat 6:30)
17. “I am Gabriel, who stand before God. I was ___ to speak to you..." (Luke 1:19)
18. Mmes. of Madrid?
28. "...so that whatever you ask the Father in my name ___ give you." (John 15:16)
29. Son of Jahath (1 Chr 4:2)
30. "Abraham your father rejoiced to ___ day..." (John 8:56)
35. Vatican ___ (begun as HVJ in 1931)
36. "...even Satan masquerades ___ angel of light." (2 Cor 11:14)
37. School Srs. of Notre Dame, initially
39. Father of Shaphat (1 Chr 7:29)
40. St. ___ of Tavistock, Bishop and missionary (d.6th C., f.1-5)
41. "...between ___ you a great chasm is established..." (Luke 16:26)
42. Home town of Sts. Euprexia and Theognia
43. "There once was a person who had ___ tree planted in his orchard..." (Luke 13:6)
44. Plain of Nebuchadnezzar's statue (Dan 3:1)
45. "Put ___ on it!"
46. ___ Handbook (writer's style guide)
48. "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom should ___? (Ps 27:1)
50. Benjamin's second son (1 Chr 8:1)
51. Inhabitant of the capital of Etam
53. St. ___ of Rome, early Church martyr, date unknown (f.3-3)
54. Exclude
55. "Yet your ___ shall be for your husband..." (Gen 3:16)
61. "Then he put them ___." What Jesus did to the mourners at Jairus' house (Mark 5:40)
62. St. Thomas More, "A ___ For All Seasons"
63. Wadi in 1 Samuel (30:9-21)
64. Solomon's servant (Ezra 2:55)
65. Srs. of St. Thomas of Villanova, initially
66. Prophet married to Gomer
67. "...sed libera nos a ___." (Pater Noster)
68. Seven, in Hebrew
69. Host holders
70. City belonging to the tribe of Benjamin (Jos 18:23)
71. Benaiah killed his two sons (2 Sm 23:20)
72. Response of James and John to Jesus' asking them if they were able to drink his cup
73. Descendant of Pahath-moab (Ezra 10:30)
74. Ridicule
75. 66 down, in the DR
77. "With one accord, the crowds paid ___ to what was said by Philip..." (Acts 8:6)
78. The Pharisees showed Jesus one
79. Regarding
80. "Exuente ___ Anno" (1888 Leo XIII encyclical)
82. "Anni ___" (1950 Pius XII encyclical)
83. David Raymond ___, Bishop of Nashville
84. St. Juan ___ (d.1548, f.12-9)
90. "My knees ___ from fasting..." (Ps 109:24)
92. St. ___ of Passau, founder (d.1091, f.8-8)
93. Saintly Bishop of Vermandois (d.545, f.6-8)
94. Church fundraising game
95. "...it was impossible for Jesus to ___ a town openly." (Mark 1:45)
97. Maid who answered the door at the house of Mary, John Mark's mother (Acts 12:13)
99. Creighton University city
100. Father of Leah and Rachel
101. St. ___ of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop (d.651, f.8-31)
102. "He will rescue you from the fowler’s ___..." (Ps 91:3)
103. "In ___" (1891 Leo XIII encyclical)
104. Time Jesus met the woman at the well (John 4:6)
105. "For our God is a consuming ___." (Heb 12:29)
106. Shusaku ___, Japanese Catholic author of "Silence"
107. Ancient wanderers
108. Brews made by many Trappists
109. Like the Negeb