What is the rapture my Protestant friends keep talking about?

[Fathergregory]

At Mass this morning the gospel referred to “2 women milling, one is caught up and the other remains…”. What is our response to this Misinterpreted
passage from Matthew?

 

[Devon_Caffran]

The following links should assist you in better understanding the Catholic Church’s teaching on the “rapture”. If you have any further questions or concerns that are not answered by these links, please [contact Catholic Answers (http://www.catholic.com/home/contact.asp) directly.
**Recommended Reading:
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• The Rapture
• Without the Rapture, what is Revelation about?
• Where does “Left Behind” go wrong?
• The Antichrist (Fathers*)
• Hunting the Whore of Babylon
• The Whore of Babylon
• False Profit: Money, Prejudice, and Bad Theology in Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind Series

Additional study:

• What Jesus Really Said About The End Of The Worldhttp://shop.catholic.com/books-1/ap...re-heaven-hell-purgatory-and-indulgences.html
• Beginning Apologetics 8: What Catholics Believe about the Second Coming, the Rapture, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, and Indulgences