John 1; I Thessalonians 4

Lord Jesus, you are life and your life is light to me. Your light shines in the darkness around me and the darkness cannot overcome it. By your word and your presence in me I am well informed about those who are asleep in you, Lord.

Therefore, I grieve, but I do not grieve as those who have no hope. For I know that Jesus died and rose again, and that through Christ, you, Father God, will bring with him all those who have fallen asleep.

Your word, oh Lord, declares to me that we who are alive and who are left until your coming, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

For you, Lord Jesus, will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the sound of the trumpet of God, our Father. Those who are dead in Christ will rise first. Then those who are alive who are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we always be with the Lord.