How does the image of the “new and living way” relate to what the homilist has been doing in his reflection on the death and exaltation of Christ?
In our pluralistic world, what might be other ways of explaining and honoring the gifts of our own Christian faith tradition without insisting that it is always better than everybody else’s (perhaps especially better than Judaism)?
Hebrews suggests that we already have a taste of God’s promises with a High Priest who intercedes for us. We also have hope of a fuller consummation yet to come, in the gift of God’s rest. How do you understand the relationship between the gifts we already enjoy as Christians and the gifts for which we hope—even beyond our own history?