21 x 21 Crossword: “The Plagues”
1. "...every family must procure for itself ___..." (Ex 12:3)
6. "Gaudium et ___" (Vat II doc)
10. One who might ask St. Stephen for prayers?
15. Missionary Franciscans of the Immaculate Conception, initially
19. St. Arnold's Grand Prize, e.g.
20. Whence sunrise comes
21. Ecclesiastical vestment
22. Florence's river
23. First Plague
27. "Blessed ___ thou among women..."
28. Son of Resheph (1 Chr 7:25)
29. Our Mother's mother
30. Bl. Pierre-Rene ___, Vincentian bishop and martyr (d.1796, f.3-3)
31. Latin prayer
33. St. ___, bishop of Mercia (d.672, f.3-2)
34. Daughters of Mary Immaculate, initially
36. Servants of Our Lady, Queen of the Clergy, initially
37. Eighth plague
39. "___! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days..." (Mk 15:29)
40. Tares and darnel
42. Son of Seth (Gen 4:26)
43. Gad or Dan, for example
45. "Whoever has my commandments and ___ them is the one who loves me." (John 14:21)
49. "...go out into the open country to hunt some ___ for me." (Gen 27:3)
50. St. Peter of Mt. ___, hermit (d.8th C., f.6-12)
52. Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet
54. "Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the ___"
55. Jerusalem to Jericho dir.
56. "...a great, dark ___ descended upon him." (Gen 15:12)
57. “As for you, Daniel, keep secret the message and ___ the book until the end time..." (Dan 12:4)
58. Seventeenth Greek letter
59. "Eye Has Not ___" (Haugen hymn)
60. "Whoever ___ father or mother shall be put to death." (Ex 21:15)
63. Currency exchange charge
64. Fifth plague
70. Saintly virgin and martyr of Brecknock (d.6th C., f.8-1)
71. Cohort of Cornelius (Acts 10:1)
72. Home pyxes
73. St. Matthew Le ___ Gam, martyr (d.1847, f.5-11)
74. "___, the Herald Angels Sing"
75. Author of 39 books on spirituality, Fr. ___ Nouwen
77. "Fin ___ Principio" (1902 Leo XIII encyclical)
80. "...___ tus ojos misericordiosos" (Dios te Salve, Reina y Madre)
82. Artemis is her Greek counterpart
84. Lemuel's realm (Prov 31:1)
85. Jason's ship
86. Ninth plague
88. David was a man after God's own?
90. Fourth plague
91. World ___ Day
92. Littles Srs. of the Assumption, initially
93. "___ are not despised if out of hunger they steal to satisfy their appetite." (Prov 6:30)
95. "Chief prince of Meshech and Tubal" (Ezek 38:3)
98. Basilian Salvatorian Fathers, initially
99. Hebrew letters
101. Bach dance (in E minor, notably)
102. "vanitas vanitatum, ___ vanitas" (Vanity of vanities, all is vanity)
104. Father of Eber (Gen 10:24, DR)
105. Hearts
106. Portuguese saint?
109. Tenth plague
114. Right start?
115. "Descend from the peak of ___..." (Song of Songs 4:8)
116. ___ Stanley Gardner
117. ___ of God, medieval limiting of armed conflict on holy days
118. Franciscan Srs. of St. Elizabeth, initially
119. "Alleluia! He is ___" (Bob Hurd hymn)
120. Griddle or snake sound
121. Vows
1. "___ Via" ("The High Road," and name of a Catholic college student community)
2. Cowardly Lion portrayer, Bert ___
3. "...and eternal life in the ___." (Luke 18:30)
4. "La ___" (Debussy classic)
5. Chesterton and Tolkien, by birth
6. Bl. Francis Xavier ___, priest (d.1867, f.10-5)
7. "God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount ___." (Hab 3:3)
8. Book after Neh.
9. "Fr. ___" (movie starring Catholic actor Mark Wahlberg)
10. Food from heaven
11. "...no one can annul or ___ even a human will once ratified." (Gal 3:15)
12. “Let us cross to the other ___.” (Mark 4:35)
13. Month of the feasts of Therese, Francis, and John Paul II (abbr.)
14. New beginning?
15. "...sed libera nos a ___." (Pater Noster)
16. Second plague
17. "Let us make human beings ___ image..." (Gen 1:26)
18. Program or device to digitize or compress media files
24. Put on liturgical garments
25. Jericho harlot of note
26. The Church, to Christ
32. “Your brother came here by a ___ and carried off your blessing” (Gen 27:35)
33. Greek X's
34. Sin, in a way
35. Nazaria Ignacia March ___, religious, canonized by Pope Francis in 2018
37. "Tolle ___" (Take up and read!)
38. Son of Judah who "spilled his seed"
39. Son of Gad (Gen 46:16)
40. Rainer ___, Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne
41. Nuns, briefly
43. Arabic letter
44. "...y la vida ___. Amen" (Credo Apostolico)
46. "O clemens, o pia, o dulcis ___ Maria." (Salve Regina)
47. Set of moral principles
48. "So they ___ the dust from their feet in protest..." (Acts 13:51)
50. Son of Gad (Gen 46:16)
51. Article of faith
53. Seventh plague
56. Agnus ___
57. St. Simon ___, Carmelite of the scapular
59. Bishop's deg., possibly
60. Where Ehud escaped to (Jgs 3:26)
61. Robert C. ___, Auxiliary Bishop of Providence, 2009-2022
62. St. Junipero ___, OFM (d.1784, f.7-1)
63. "...you will be buried ___ ripe old age." (Gen 15:15)
64. "The streets of Jerusalem will be ___ with rubies and stones..." (Tob 13:17)
65. Campsite for Judas and his men (1 Mac 9:5)
66. Lord of Lima?
67. Ammonite king (1 Sm 12:12)
68. Biblical family group
69. Biol., e.g.
75. City on the river Gozan where Assyria exiled the Transjordan tribes (1 Chr 1:26)
76. Ite, missa ___
77. Exorcises
78. Shammah's father (2 Sam 23:11)
79. “...these I have come to consider a ___ because of Christ.” (Phil 3:7)
81. "A great sign appeared in the ___..." (Rev 12:1)
82. Roman god?
83. "All that ___ come is vanity." (Eccl 11:8)
84. Sacrificial service?
85. On the safe side, at sea
87. Man who captured Kenath and named it after himself (Num 32:42)
89. Presbyter
90. "Noah, a man of the soil, was the ___ plant a vineyard." (Gen 9:20)
93. St. Maria Soledad ___ Acosta, foundress (d.1887, f.10-11)
94. Shades
95. "He is not ___ the dead but of the living." (Mark 12:27)
96. Hebrew dry measures
97. Third plague
99. Place a.k.a. Jamnia
100. Where Merton summered while at Columbia U.
101. Sixth plague
103. "...on ___ rested from all the work he had done in creation." (Gen 2:3)
104. "...and fill the water of the ___..." (Gen 1:22)
105. Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, briefly
107. Angel leader?
108. “These are the ___ who have survived the time of great distress..." (Rev 7:14)
110. Peter paddle?
111. Marianist Srs., initially
112. "For however many are the promises of God, their ___ is in him..." (2 Cor 1:20)
113. Birthplace of St. Joseph Cottolengo