Prayer: 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18

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 don’t know what we will hear.
The call of an archangel?
The blast of a
trumpet?

This much we know:

We want to be ready
when you
come.

Make us ready,
Lord.

— A. Osdieck. Copyright © 2011, The Center for Liturgy at Saint Louis University. Visit that site for other lectionary-based prayers.