2026-11-08 Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
2026-11-08 Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Opening Prayer Heavenly Father, as we gather, prepare our hearts to meet your Son, the Bridegroom. Keep the lamps of our faith burning, and fill us with the oil of prayer, love, and generous service. When we grow weary or become distracted, renew our hope and help us remain watchful and faithful. May our lives shine with the light of Christ, and may we be ready to welcome him with joy whenever he comes. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 1st Thessalonians is the earliest of St Paul's letters, written roughly 20 years before the first Gospel. In today's reading St Paul says in Jesus Christ who resurrected from death, we the faithful will also rise again to enjoy eternal life. St Paul uses dramatic language like - For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven - We will be caught up together with them in the clouds...