Reginald Fuller writes about 1 Thessalonians 5 and 33rd Sunday of OT.
https://www.theway.org.uk/back/014Stanley.pdf
David Stanley article "Come, Lord Jesus" is a very beautiful article and is worth mining.
During Advent, the Church addresses her liturgical prayer directly to Jesus Christ, expressing her intense desire for his return (1). She calls: Veni, Domine, Come, O Lord. The Lord's parousia is the event that absorbs the attention of the Church in the Advent, Christmas, Epiphany cycle. The parousia, the second coming of the Lord, is the climax and culmination of salvation history.
The roman breviary's hymns for Advent refer a lot to the last judgement. The parousiac Christ is the judge of the living and the dead.
The message of Advent is much needed in our modern world, where the Christian has perhaps come to feel too much at home. The danger of foolishly reposing in the security which this world offers, is, as the Church is fully conscious, a perennial danger. It is the danger exemplified by the irresponsible overseer of the Gospel parable: 'My lord is long in coming'. 4 It is occasionally found in a particularly virulent form among those who cynically scoff at the chief Christian hope. 'Where is his promised coming?, they will ask; Why, ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything has remained as it was from the beginning of creation'. The Christian of to-day has lost the sense of urgency, with its consequent fervent longing, which characterized the attitude of the primitive Church towards Christ's second coming.
Times like this of calamity like Covid19 make the parousia come into the news. These are the end of times and people remember the various prophecies, both scriptural and other.
The expectation of the early Church
Jesus references to the second coming
Petrine theology of history
Parousiac orientation of Pauline spirituality
Parousia and Eucharist
Parousia and Baptism
Christian liturgy of parousia
Parousia in Advent-Christmas liturgy
Conclusion
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