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.

Start:Stop - Ode to Joy (and Freedom)

From The Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt, 1902

Hello and welcome to this week’s Start:Stop reflection from St Stephen Walbrook, when we stop for ten minutes and start to reflect on a passage from scripture. You can hear an audio version of this reflection at this link. Today our text is taken from Luke’s Gospel, in which we hear the words Jesus spoke in the synagogue at the start of his ministry.