Third Sunday of Lent – Year C Readings

"As [Moses] looked on, he was _________ to see that the bush, though on fire, was not consumed" (Ex 3:1)

Used as a communications code word for the letter b

Plural: a microgroove phonograph record designed to be played at 33¹/₃ revolutions per minute

Have an ___ up one's sleeve

A liturgical form or observance especially: a liturgy having modifications peculiar to a local church or religious order

Happening; chance

The address of a resource (such as a document or website) on the Internet that consists of a communications protocol followed by the name or address of a computer on the network and that often includes additional locating information (such as directory and file names)

By the ___; Incidentally, in passing, as in

Slang for a thousand dollars

Ampere, amplifier

An artificial language intended to be international that rejects all existing words and roots and is based on analysis and classification of ideas

Capitalized, the 11th month of the civil year or the 5th month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar

Acronym for an agreement between contractors working on government contracts or projects that specify requirements for them to share information, data, technical knowledge, expertise, or resources

The heraldic color gold or yellow

An angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in this (Ex 3:2,3)

Fellow, guy; coffee

"I ___ my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth" (Get 9:13).

The front part of the lower trunk and thighs of a seated person

The central act of worship in the Catholic Church

Symbol for germanium

One's ___ can be bruised on one hand and feed, massaged and stroked on the other

to droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

An affirmative reply

"This is My name forever, and this is the name for all ___________ to use to call upon Me" (Ex 3:15).

Acronym for a warning sign that one of your heart’s upper chambers is handling high pressure and too much blood

Acronym for a string of numbers, letters and symbols used to uniquely identify an article or document, and to provide it with a permanent web address (URL)

To include as a member of a group

In the Catholic universities the Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB) is often called by these initials and is treated as a postgraduate qualification.

Initials for the Latin title that Pontius Pilate had written over the head of Jesus Christ on the cross, which in English translates to "Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews" (John 19:19)

A device for measuring the forward speed of the aircraft

Abbreviation for April

Plural: the sixth note of the major scale in solfège

"He redeems your life from ___________, crowns you with kindness and compassion" (Responsorial Psalm; Ps 103: 1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 11)

An abbreviation of two Latin words, meaning "for example"

Capitalized: a boastful overbearing knight of the Round Table who is foster brother and seneschal of King Arthur; the letter k

Used to express delight, relief, regret, or contempt

"__ be or not __ be" (Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)

A unit of area equal to 100 square meters

Dialectal, England: SIFT; chiefly Scottish: IRRATIONAL, BEFUDDLED

SILENT; : to perform in a pantomime OR to go about merrymaking in disguise during festivals; a strong ale or beer; CHRYSANTHEMUM

The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet

Informal: not so: NO

This time is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−05:00). Observed during standard time (late autumn/winter in the United States and Canada).

A small demon: FIEND; a mischievous child: URCHIN; to graft or repair (a wing, tail, or feather) with a feather to improve a falcon's flying capacity

Of or relating to her or herself especially as possessor, agent, or object of an action

A viscous or sticky substance; a spot made by or as if by an unctuous or adhesive substance

"I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our _________ were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, and all of them were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea" (1 For 10:1,2)

A suburb of wearisomely uniform and usually poorly constructed houses

To rouse up

Acronym for the sea level that is observed with respect to a land-based reference frame

A Jew qualified to expound and apply the halacha and other Jewish law or trained and ordained for professional religious leadership

Covered with, abounding in, or consisting of ice

A seat of a bishop's office, power, or authority

Past tense and past participle of DIG: UDDER

Any of a genus (Fagus of the family Fagaceae, the beech family) of hardwood trees with smooth gray bark and small edible nuts; also: its wood

Used to express surprise, triumph, or derision

In the 1820s and '30s in the American Southwest, the Spanish vamos meaning "let's go" evolved into this word meaning "to depart quickly".

"The LORD secures justice and the rights of all the __________" (Ps 103:6).

Those in the Bible are named Galilee (Tiberias), Red Mediterranean (Great, ___ of the Philistines), Salt or Dead,

"Go to the ___, O sluggard, study her ways and learn wisdom; for though she has no chief" (Prov 6:6,7).

A loose sleeveless outer garment worn as traditional dress by men in the Middle East; a fabric woven from the hair of camels or goats

The second note of the major scale in solfège; with regard to: IN RE

Plural: Second section of the Catholic Mass; a psalm or hymn of praise to God sung in Latin or vernacular on occasion; the opening word of the greater and lesser doxologies.

Pertaining to an upper floor

Plural: an impertinent chatterer; DANDY; GREENHORN

"Some people told Jesus about the _________ whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices" (Lk 13:1)

"All good things come to an ___."

earth: ground: soil; geographic: geography and

The Church operates more than 140,000 schools, 10,000 orphanages, 5,000 hospitals and some 16,000 other health clinics, making it one of the biggest ___ agencies in the world.

The one absolutely and infinitely perfect spirit who is the Creator of all

Dialectal British variant of GRASS

A word or phrase made by transposing the letters of another word or phrase

A member of a men's religious order who is not preparing for or is not ready for holy orders

PIGPEN; an inflamed swelling of a sebaceous gland at the margin of an eyelid

Abbreviation for athletic and alumina trihydrate

The symbol π denoting the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter

One who has the courage to contend against, venture, or try

Idols "have mouths but do not speak; they have ____ but do not see; they have ears but do not hear; nor is there breath in their mouths" (Psalm 135:16,17)

When Jacob heard his brother Esau was coming to meet him with 400 men, he "was very much frightened. In his anxiety, he divided the people who were with him, as well as his flocks, herds and camels, into two _____" (Genesis 32:7-9).

Plural: crime fiction featuring hard-boiled cynical characters and bleak sleazy settings

Abraham set seven of these lambs apart from his flock (Genesis 21:28)

The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet

Abbreviation for book of sayings of the sixth of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible

Japanese apricot

Abbreviation for carbohydrate