Across

1 A sermon about child finally being saved from sin (8)

6 What’s under rubber in church? (5)

9 With practice of religious order, I attempt to follow the Lord (8)

10 Minister not getting on in the Home Counties is by no means dense (6)

11 Roger, chap playing around with art who makes geographical representations (12)

13 Parties held by weird ancestors (6)

15 Mother figure giving party with heavenly food spread about (7)

16 Intend naughtily, having trapped wife, to be linked to another (7)

18 Mac goes to church? That’s the spirit! (6)

19 Prayer — how it’s altered to show what God is? (12)

22 After brief month one must join men lower in rank (6)

23 Met at that site beset by tribe (8)

24 You must join fellows in a foreign land (5)

25 Agreements establishing new rites — take bread, say, in such? (8)

Down

2 OT man first to leave a place of confusion (4)

3 One into ‘correct’ music is possibly dealing with holy text in a particular way (6,9)

4 What bishop in US might wear in a Boston university with little hesitation (5)

5 Door may get fixed in communal meeting place (3,4)

6 Defends what the top jockeys will get? (9)

7 God’s word being such, I can see where I am going (1,4,4,2,4)

8 Name of girl about ten going to church for nourishment (10)

12 Is not the monarch able to hide in place of notorious murder? (10)

14 Supreme council had sinner disciplined (9)

17 Some had rough time, a prolonged shortage (7)

20 Income for church? It features in article (5)

21 Church event making money around end of August? (4)

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