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Oops! My mistake. It should read 1 Thess 4:13-18. You really enjoy jumping on that though. ;o)

If it is your mistake, why are you blaming me ?

Now that you want Latin Rite Catholics so you can use the Latin word rapiemur and derive the word "rapture" from it, here is a Catholic approved translation showing "the Rapture" is the gathering up of the saints in the air to meet the LORD Jesus Christ in the clouds as he returns to earth the same way he ascended from the earth, ie., in the Second Coming the angels told the Apostles about; He is coming to judge the living and the dead. This happens after the apostasy, just as the Apostle Paul wrote.

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, 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.
First Thessalonians, Catholic chapter four, Protestant verses thirteen to eighteen,
The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

Wow, that chip must be heavy on your shoulder! I said you certainly enjoyed catching my error! That's not blaming anyone but me for the error.

I refer you back to the previous post, which perhaps you didn't see, since you offered a notion refuted in the list of 15 differences in the Rapture and the Second Return to Earth's surface: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3329196/posts?page=396#396

That Jesus can come to the Earth in the Air without setting foot on the surface should not be a problem comprehending by someone who believes a priest in his religion can bring Jesus down for His real Presence to be eaten at the catholic Mass, body, blood, soul and DIVINITY, in a wafer held up by the priest.