Bagels & Bible Study - Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

<p style="text-align:justify;">Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time </p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Reading 1      WISDOM 6:12-16</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">A reading from the Book of Wisdom</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Resplendent and unfading is wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known in anticipation of their desire; Whoever watches for her at dawn shall not be disappointed, for he shall find her sitting by his gate. For taking thought of wisdom is the perfection of prudence, and whoever for her sake keeps vigil shall quickly be free from care; because she makes her own rounds, seeking those worthy of her, and graciously appears to them in the ways, and meets them with all solicitude.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The word of the Lord.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Reading 2       1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">A reading from the first Letter of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so too will God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have fallen asleep. Indeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not precede those who have fallen asleep. 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, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, console one another with these words.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The word of the Lord.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;"> Gospel        MATTHEW 25:1-13</p> <p s