Catholic Homilies By Fr Linus Clovis

Our Lord had spoken the parable about the darnel in the field, He said, “The kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field and whilst everyone was asleep the enemy came and saw darnel and made off. Then when the workers went in to the field, they spoke of the darnel and said to the master, ‘Wasn’t it good seed that you sowed?’ How then does the darnel appear and He said, ‘Some enemy has done this.’ They answered, ‘Well do you want us to go and pull up the darnel?’ He said, ‘No, no, leave it till harvest time because you might pull up with the darnel the good seed as well, the good wheat as well, so leave it till harvest time then I will send the labourers and they will gather the darnel and they throw it in to the furnace and the wheat will be gathered in to my barn.’” Our Lord spoke this to the crowds and then as we heard today, leaving the crowds, He went into the house and His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain the parable about the darnel in the field to us.” So the disciples also