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    Journey-Lesson 2: The New Beginning
    Journey-Lesson 2: The New Beginning
    Journey-Lesson 2: The New Beginning
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    Journey-Lesson 2: The New Beginning

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is the second of the forty lessons in the Journey Bible Study Program written by Archbishop Marcel Gervais. In this lesson the author guides you the second part of the book of Genesis in which the Patriarchs are presented. Chapter 1 presents the story of Abraham. Abraham is shown to be a model of trust in god. Chapter 2 presents the story of Jabob. Jacob is revealed as the person of faith who struggles with God and wins. Chapter 3 presents the story of Joseph. Joseph is presented as the person of faith who uses his intelligence and talents to the benefit of not only his family but all of society.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmmaus Publications
    Release dateDec 28, 2013
    ISBN9781927766057
    Journey-Lesson 2: The New Beginning
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    Marcel Gervais

    About the Author Archbishop Gervais was born in Elie Manitoba on September 21 1931. He is the ninth of fourteen children. His family came from Manitoba to the Sparta area near St. Thomas Ontario when he was just a teenager. He went to Sparta Continuation School and took his final year at Saint Joseph`s High School in St. Thomas. After high school he went to study for the priesthood at St. Peter’s Seminary in London , Ontario. He was ordained in 1958. He was sent to study in Rome. This was followed by studies at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem. He returned to London to teach scripture to the seminarians at St. Peter’s Seminary. In 1974 he was asked by Bishop Emmett Carter to take over as director of the Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education. This Centre had been founded by Bishop Carter to provide a resource for adult education in the spirit of Vatican II. This Centre involved sessions of one or two weeks with many of the best scholars of the time. Students came not only from Canada and the United States but from all over the globe, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe. By the time Father Gervais became the director Divine Word Centre was already a course dominated by the study of scripture to which he added social justice. This aspect of the course of studies was presented by people from every part of the “third world”; among which were Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez and Cardinal Dery of Ghana. In 1976 the Conference of Ontario Bishops along with the Canadian conference of Religious Women approached Father Gervais to provide a written course of studies in Sacred Scripture for the Church at large, but especially for priests and religious women. This is when Fr. Gervais began to write Journey, a set of forty lessons on the Bible. He was armed with a treasure of information from all the teachers and witnesses to the faith that had lectured at Devine Word. He was assisted by a large number of enthusiastic collaborators: all the people who had made presentations at Divine Word and provided materials and a team of great assistants, also at Divine Word Centre. The work was finished just as Father Gervais was ordained an auxiliary bishop of London (1980). He subsequently was made Bishop of Sault Saint Marie Diocese, and after four years, Archbishop of Ottawa (1989). He retired in 2007, and at the time of this writing, he is enjoying retirement.

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      Journey-Lesson 2 - Marcel Gervais

      Journey-Lesson 2- The New Beginning

      by Marcel Gervais, Emeritus Archbishop of the diocese of Ottawa, Canada

      Nihil Obstat: Michael T. Ryan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

      Imprimatur: + John M. Sherlock, Bishop of London

      London, March 31, 1980

      This content of this book was first published in 1977 as part of the JOURNEY Series By Guided Study Programs in the Catholic Faith and is now being republished in Smashwords by Emmaus Publications, 99 Fifth Avenue, Suite 103, Ottawa,ON, K1S 5P5, Canada on Smashwords

      Cover: ... Abraham with his son Jacob.

      COPYRIGHT © Guided Study Programs ln the Catholic Faith, a division of The Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education 1977. Reproduction ln whole or ln part is Prohibited.

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      CONTENTS

      Chapter1 Abraham

      Chapter 2 Jacob

      Chapter 3 Joseph

      Answer Key to practice Questions

      Self-Test

      Answer Key to Self-test

      Recommendations for Group Meeting

      About the Author

      Psalm 112. To open the lesson, pray Psalm 112. This is one of the great psalms of the Wisdom tradition. Its opening lines are an invitation to reflect on the foundation of all wisdom and all blessing — namely, joyful submission to the Lord, doing his will. Keep this in mind as the lesson proceeds. Notice carefully what happens to the man of virtue: blessed abundantly by God, he in turn becomes a blessing to others. His blessing is not for himself alone.

      Lesson Objective: To describe Abraham, Jacob and Joseph and their roles in the promises of God.

      Historical Background

      The alluvial plain of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers had been the scene of continual power struggles. The magnificent Third Dynasty of 'Ur (2060 - 1950) had fallen in ruins Akkadians. Meanwhile, a seminomadic people, called Amorites, were on the move.

      There were large migrations of people within the Fertile Crescent in those days. Abraham's family could well have been among these migrating Amorites. Abraham's ancestors had lived in Ur. They had moved from there to Haran where Abraham settled (Gen 11:31; see map)

      But neither God nor the times were for settling down. People were still on the move. How Abraham experienced his call we will never know in detail, but experience it he did. He was asked to pull up the roots which had begun to grow, and to move to a land that God would show him.

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