During the month of November, we hear much from the Sacred Scriptures about the end times and the Kingdom of Heaven and Jesus coming back to bring us to newness of life with Him. November also signals the coming end of another liturgical year with the last Sunday celebrating Jesus Christ, King of the Universe before we enter into Advent. The Gospel gives us the story of the wise and the foolish virgins or better said the prepared and the unprepared. It is through and with the wisdom of God that we are called to follow Him faithfully and be ready. That God will announce the coming of Jesus Christ to bring with Him all who have fallen asleep and died and then bring the rest of us into the glory of the Kingdom of Heaven. Our souls should be thirsting for the Lord our God and doing all we can to be prepared. We would not want to hear the Lord say to any of us, “I do not know you.”