Homily-Seeing in the Acceptable Year of the Lord?

Big Ben Celebration - Robert Lyn Nelson

A Homily given during Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 29th December 2024 at 6.30pm based on the text of Isaiah 61 and 'New Years Day 1945' by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Bonhoeffer's "New Year" Prayer

The Rocket, by Edward Middleton Manigault, 1909

A New Year hymn based on a poem written for all those for whom “the old year still torments our hearts” has been introduced into the Anglican church in a new hymnal.

Haiku from the Kruger Park inspired by Brother Sun

Couple and newborn
trudge across rocky terrain.
A family flees.