[nina0113]

Excellent. Steve and I were talking just the other night about the seeming conflict between considering the lilies of the field, taking no thought for the morrow, and the parable of the wise & foolish virgins about being prepared, and neither one of us is theologian enough to reconcile the two. Do you by chance have a homily prepared on that?

[Charles Henrickson]

the seeming conflict between considering the lilies of the field, taking no thought for the morrow, and the parable of the wise & foolish virgins about being prepared, and neither one of us is theologian enough to reconcile the two. Do you by chance have a homily prepared on that?

Here is a sermon I did on the lilies of the field:

"Don't Worry, Be Trusting" (Sermon on Matthew 6:24-34)

And here's one on the wise and foolish virgins:

"A Foolish, Self-Imposed Oil Shortage" (Sermon on Matthew 25:1-13)

I don't remember if either sermon gets into the question of reconciling taking no thought for the morrow and being prepared.

[padre35]

If I may?

The Lilies of the Field passage is a sort of allusion to the Father and Creation, the sense of the “my Father has made everything as it is down to the very flowers you see it is all His handiwork”.