"Now may He Himself, the God of all, who is Father of the Christ, and our Lord Jesus Christ, who came down, and ascended, and sits together with the Father, watch over your souls, keep unshaken and unchanged your hope in Him who rose again, raise you together with Him from your dead sins unto His heavenly gift, count you worthy to be ‘caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air,’ in His fitting time, and, until that time arrive of His glorious second advent, write all your names in the Book of the Living, and having written them, never to blot them out . . . and may He grant to all of you to believe in Hm who rose again, and to look for Him who is gone up, and is to come again . . ."

(St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures XIV).