21 x 21 Crossword: “Passion Peculiarities”
1. Holy Welsh bishop who founded a French commune (d.621, f.11-15)
7. "When it is full they haul ___ and sit down to put what is good into buckets." (Mat 13:48)
15. "What father among you would hand his son a snake when he asks for ___?" (Luke 11:11)
20. Third-century author of the hexapla
21. Kind of punishment?
22. "... if tongues, they will ___" (1 Cor 13:8)
23. Detail peculiar to St. Matthew's Passion Narrative
26. Protestant author Lindsey, of "The Late, Great Planet Earth" fame
27. "...as I sing my ___ to the king." (Psalm 45:2)
28. Head, to Henri
29. Bleats
30. "only then will ___ you continue to dwell in this place" (Jer 7:7)
32. Row
34. Picpus Fathers, initially
37. Father and Abbot, e.g.
41. Where we read about Queen Vashti's insult to King Ahasuerus
43. St. ___ of Rheims, Bishop (d.533, f.1-13)
46. "The Monk's ___" (Chaucer unit)
48. "Proclaim ___, call an assembly!" (Joel 2:15)
49. What Jesus said one must do to his flesh
51. Galileo's birthplace
53. French saint invoked against the plague (d.1379, f.8-16)
55. “___, be merciful to me a sinner.” (Luke 18:13)
56. Detail peculiar to St. Mark's Passion Narrative
62. Bl. Miguel ___, SJ, martyr (d.1927, f.11-23)
63. St. ___ of Lavaur, bishop (d.7th C., f.11-25)
64. Right start?
65. Prayer in a Benedictine motto
66. "___ homo" (Pilate declaration)
68. Church choir music voicing, briefly
70. Son of Omri
72. "...y la vida ___. Amen" (Credo Apostolico)
77. "Then Phinehas rose to intervene, and the plague was brought to ___." (Ps 106:30)
79. Thirteen popes, by name
81. Shammah's father (2 Sam 23:11)
83. Enemies of the Iroquois
84. The R in CRS
86. "...go to the sea, ___ in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up." (Mat 17:27)
88. Christmas lights locale
90. King of Midian (Num 31:8)
91. Fr. title
93. Anger, with "up"
95. Hatcher of "Lois & Clark"
97. Call on
98. Detail peculiar to St. Luke's Passion Narrative
105. Roman emperor between Galba and Vitellius (d.69)
106. Book containing the story of David's sin with Bathsheba (abbr.)
107. "...why do you look so intently at us ___ we had made him walk by our own power or piety?" (Acts 3:12)
108. Tolkien dwarf (LOTR)
109. Luminous signs?
111. "... you shall not eat any of the following that ___ the cud..." (Deut 14:7)
113. Arthurian lady
115. Bishop David A. Konderla's see
119. Syrian king (2 Cor 11:32)
121. First cousin (and half-brother) of Ammon
123. Nay sayer?
125. Rosary part
126. Town on the border of Asher (Jos 19:26)
128. Son of Ebed (Jgs 9:26)
131. "In the beginning ___ the Word..." (John 1:1)
133. Historic record co. based in Chicago (abbr.)
134. Detail peculiar to St. John's Passion Narrative
141. "...speak the truth, each ___ his neighbor..." (Eph 4:25)
142. Beacon hill of Gondor (LOTR)
143. Hebrew for "my Lord"
144. Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph foundress, St. Elizabeth Ann ___
145. "Summi ___" (1950 Pius XII encyclical)
146. Binds opposite
1. St. Madeleine ___ Barat, foundress (d.1865, f.5-25)
2. Burdensome events
3. Jean-Francois ___, Catholic painter of "The Angelus" (d.1875)
4. ___ Khan
5. Mother of Artemis
6. "If foundations are destroyed, what can the just ___?” (Ps 11:3)
7. Saintly Irish virgin (d.570, f.1-15)
8. "And do not subject us to the final ___..." (Mat 6:13)
9. "See now that I, I alone, ___, and there is no god besides me." (Deut 32:39)
10. "If the man with the discharge ___ on a clean person..." (Lev 15:8)
11. "The thief must no longer steal, but rather labor, doing ___ work with his [own] hands..." (Eph 4:28)
12. End of a USCCB address?
13. Stadium cheer
14. Site of springs on the Exodus route
15. Southern Greece, biblically
16. "...likened to a king who gave a wedding ___ his son." (Mat 22:2)
17. McKellen, who played Gandalf in LOTR
18. Srs. of St. Dorothy, initially
19. Hebrew letters
24. "She was allowed to ___ a bright, clean linen garment.” (Rev 19:8)
25. What Jesus often did while teaching
31. Logical beginning?
33. Turned away from sin
35. See of St. Cyprian
36. Coagulate
38. St. Anthony of Padua is this Italian city's patron
39. "...___ tus ojos misericordiosos" (Dios te Salve, Reina)
40. Catholic seminary professors' degrees
42. "___ stranger residing in a foreign land." (Ex 2:22)
44. Year in the reign of Pope Sylvester II
45. "God is light, and in him there ___ darkness at all." (1 John 1:5)
47. Root meaning of "catechism"
50. Archeological mounds
52. Taj Mahal city
54. “Rabbi, it is good that we are ___!" (Mark 9:5)
56. Saul tried to pin David to the wall with one
57. L'___, where Henri Nouwen worked
58. "...before the ___ authorities." (Acts 16:19)
59. Canaanite rain god
60. Maran ___, Aramaic for "Our Lord has come"
61. Blanchett, who played Galadriel in Lord of the Rings
67. Hebrew name meaning "My God"
69. St. Charles ___
71. Kind of vision
73. Be human, in a way, so they say
74. St. Stephen of ___, abbot (d.590, f.2-13)
75. Father of Jeroboam
76. Ancestor of Jesus (Mat 1:7)
78. "The caravans of ___ search..." (Job 6:19)
80. "___a son frees you, then you will truly be free." (John 8:36)
82. "___ now the ax lies at the root of the trees." (Mat 3:10)
85. Sons of Mary Missionary Society, initially
87. "The Lord has heard my ___" (Psalm 6:10)
89. "Eia ___, advocata nostra..." (Salve Regina)
92. Gilgamesh, e.g.
94. In ___ (existing)
96. "So also faith of itself, ___ does not have works, is dead." (Jas 2:17)
98. ___ Nobis Pacem
99. Old Roman road
100. Sandal, e.g.
101. Bl. Belegerius of ___, Franciscan Tertiary (d.1290, f.1-30)
102. The Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, initially
103. Original ___
104. Son of Koz (1 Chr 4:8)
110. Biblical strongman
112. Bl Hans ___, OCart (d.1516, f.5-19)
114. "I saw the Spirit come ___ like a dove from the sky..." (John 1:32)
116. St. Bertrand of ___, Bishop (d.623, f.6-30)
117. "Musicae ___" (1955 Pius XII encyclical)
118. "Sufficient for ___ its own evil." (Mat 6:34)
120. "Because of laziness, the rafters ___..." (Eccl 10:18)
122. Bl. Jane of ___, Camaldolese lay-sister (d.1105, f.1-16)
124. Martyrs of ___, St. Andre de Soveral and companions (d.1645, f.10-3)
127. Carpe ___
129. "...a man will meet you carrying ___ of water." (Luke 22:10)
130. Places
132. "Whomever you forgive anything, ___ I." (2 Cor 10:7)
134. Book after Jgs
135. Dir. from Turin to Milan
136. "A city ___ on a mountain..." (Mat 5:14)
137. Way to Rome?
138. Martinique, par exemple
139. Society of Helpers, initially
140. Low