| ASPERGES | Rite of sprinkling holy water at the beginning of the Mass in the Catholic Church |
| AGNUSDEI | What is the Latin name of the prayer Lamb of God. a part of the mass in the Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran liturgies? (5,3) |
| INTROIT | Anthem sung at the beginning of the Mass in the Roman Catholic church (7) |
| STOUP | Basin of holy water at or near the entrance of a church, used by entering parishioners to cross themselves (5) |
| HALLOWEEN | Spooky time in room over water at the beginning of November |
| SANCTUS | Last part of the Preface in the Mass in the Roman Catholic Church (7) |
| MASS | A body of matter of indefinite shape / the ordinary people / in the Catholic church, the liturgy |
| BREVIARY | Book giving the regulations for the celebration of the Mass in Western Christianity (8) |
| RELIC | Body-part or possession of a deceased holy person kept in the Catholic Church as an object of reverence (5) |
| NOCTURN | Part of matins, prayers in the catholic church said at night |
| HIAWATHA | 'By the shore of Gitche Gumee; By the shining Big-Sea-Water; At the doorway of his wigwam; In the pleasant Summer morning,' stood this creation of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| CARDINAL | Of prime importance in the Catholic Church? (8) |
| ENCYCLICAL | A papal letter sent to all bishops in the Catholic Church (10) |
| LAMMAS | In the Catholic Church, feast held on 1 August, commemorating St Peter's deliverance from prison (6) |
| ROSARY | In the Catholic Church, October is devoted to this prayer (6) |
| MISSAL | Pine for a Latin book in the Catholic church (6) |
| ROMANCE | Love affair in the Catholic church |
| HOLYORDERS | Bishops, priests and deacons, in the Catholic Church |
| SCHISM | Great ___, rift in the Catholic Church, 1378-1417 (6) |
| AQABA | Gulf of ___ , body of water at the northern tip of the Red Sea (5) |
