| EMBERDAY | Occasion reserved for fasting and prayer in the Western Church (5-3) |
| LIKEA | Words before Virgin and Prayer in Madonna song titles: 2 wds. |
| CHILDERMAS | Archaic name for feast Holy Innocents' Day, held on 28th December in the Western Church |
| TEDEUM | Ancient Latin hymn of praise, famous in the Western Church (2,4) |
| AVEMARIA | Prayer in the morning includes very English song (3,5) |
| MACNEICE | Louis, poet born in Belfast in 1907 noted for poems such as Snow and Prayer Before Birth (8) |
| FLYAKITE | What you can do today to look upward in fun and prayer (3,1,4) |
| AMENABLE | Compliant, like a prayer in the end? (8) |
| RAMADAN | The Muslims' month-long season of fasting and prayer, ___ always starts on the ninth month of the |
| SCHISM | The ___ of 1054 marked the final separation of the Eastern churches and the Western church |
| WORSHIPS | Honours with praise and prayer (8) |
| EMBERDAYS | Church fasting and prayer times |
| MATINS | The service of morning prayer in the Church of England |
| ANGELUS | Series of prayers in the Roman Catholic Church which commemorate the Annunciation and Incarnation (7) |
| CEYLON | Western church only worked with Sri Lanka in the past (6) |
| LENT | 40-day period of fasting and penitence observed by many Christians in preparation for Easter (4) |
| PSALM | Any one of the 150 sacred songs, poems and prayers that constitute the book of the Old Testament following the Book of Job (5) |
| STAMEN | The little saint ends a prayer in the plant (6) |
| NONES | Mid afternoon prayer in the Roman calendar (5) |
| OFFICES | Term for specific prayers in the Christian liturgy, such as Matins and Vespers (7) |
