Crossword and Poem of the Month

A Prayer of Morning Offering John Keble (1792-1866)

It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-23)

New every morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought. New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray, New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. If, on our daily course, our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, As more of heaven in each we see; Some softening gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our words farewell, Nor strive to find ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask, Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God. Seek we no more; content with these, Let present rapture, comfort, ease, As heaven shall bid them, come and go; The secret this of rest below.

Only, O Lord, in Thy dear love, Fit us for perfect rest above, And help us, this and every day, To live more nearly as we pray.

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Alan Frost August 2020 – No. 81

Clues Across

1 Pagan (from Greek myth) deity of drink and revelry (7) 6 …-Rho, one of the earliest symbols of Christianity (3) 8 See 15 Across 9 Sic ------- gloria mundi, ‘Thus passes the glory of the world’ (7) 10 African country whose population is largely Roman Catholic (5) 11 One of the world’s oldest cities, near Damascus (6) 13, 24 & 23 Across: Saint founder of the Passionist Order, Feast Day 19

October (4,2,3,5) 15 & 8 Across: Chaplet of prayer given to us by St Faustina (6,5) 17 Famous recusant family and house where St Edmund Campion had his printing-press (6) 20 Former long-lived humorous national magazine, originally called The

London Charivari (5) 21 Fruit of the bells of St Clement’s in the London nursery rhyme (7) 23 See 13 Across 24 See 13 Across 25 Ornate stonework in the windows of Gothic churches (7)

Clues Down

1 French Saint and medieval bishop, Feast day 16 October (8) 2 Member of the clergy assisting the parish priest (6) 3 --- Urs Von Balthasar, major Swiss RC theologian of the 20th century (4) 4 Joseph -----, founder of the Latter Day Saints [Mormons] (5) 5 A boastful person, as in the alazon in early Greek theatre (8) 6 One of the clashing instruments employed to praise God in Psalm 150 (6) 7 Religious image, especially in the Orthodox churches (4) 12 Famous ancient Roman temple, a Catholic church since the 7th century (8) 14 -------- Commission, Government department responsible for large arboreal areas in England (8) 16 Italian city, birthplace of Canaletto and Titian (6) 18 Irritate with a minor criticism? (6) 19 Gustav -----, composer of a St Paul’s Suite, though dedicated to the school, not the cathedral (5) 20 William ----, youngest ever Prime Minister, buried in Westminster

Abbey (4) 22 Reference to ‘Father’, as in the NT Letter to the Romans (4)

ANSWERS

Abba 22 Pitt 20 Holst 19 Niggle 18 Venice 16 Forestry 14 Pantheon 12 7 Icon Cymbal 6 5 Braggart Smith 4 Hans 3 Curate 2 Bertrand 1 Down: 25 Tracery The 24 Cross 23 Oranges 21 Punch 20 Stonor 17 Divine 15 Paul Of 13 Aleppo 11 Gabon 0 Transit 19 Mercy 8 Chi 6 Bacchus 1 Across: