He Is Our Only Hope
By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Thirty-Second Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR A) Readings: Wisdom 6:12-161 Thess. 4:13-18Matt. 25:1-13 In the second reading today, St. Paul provides comfort for those who were concerned about believers in Christ who died before His Second Coming. Many early Christians thought the Lord was going to return in their lifetime and, at His coming, they would be shown victorious in Christ and be taken to Heaven with Him. Suddenly, there was a question about the believers who had died prior to our Lord’s Second Coming. St. Paul assures the Thessalonians that those who have died in Christ will be raised from the dead and taken up with Christ before the believers who will still be alive…Continue Reading