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    Journey: Lesson 4 -The Mighty Act of God
    Journey: Lesson 4 -The Mighty Act of God
    Journey: Lesson 4 -The Mighty Act of God
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    Journey: Lesson 4 -The Mighty Act of God

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is the 4th lesson in the Journey Bible Study Program series. In this lesson Chapter 1 covers the History relevant to the Exodus event, Chapter 2 presents some insights into the literature of the Exodus and Chapter Three presents another segment of the commentary on "Dei Verbum", The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation by the Second Vatican Council. There is also other selections from the book of Exodus which give insights into the character of Moses and on the meaning of the Manna episode which is found in the story of the Exodus.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmmaus Publications
    Release dateJan 6, 2014
    ISBN9781927766071
    Journey: Lesson 4 -The Mighty Act of God
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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 - Marcel Gervais

      Journey-Lesson 4- The Mighty Act of God

      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: ... The Egyptian army destroyed.

      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

      Chapter 1 History

      Chapter 2 The Literature on the Exodus

      Chapter 3 -DeiVerbum

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendation for group meeting on Lesson Four

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      Psalm 114

      A joyful song that poetically combines the coming out of Egypt and the crossing of the Jordan—the beginning and the end of the Exodus. A song sung at Passover.

      You might also like to read Psalm 136, the "Great Haller of the Passover meal. It praises and thanks the Lord for his love shown in the history of God's People, from crea¬tion, through the Exodus, to the occupation of The Land of Promise.

      Lesson objective: To discuss the history and literature of the Exodus event.

      Introduction

      The Exodus is the central event in the history of the People of God before the coming of Christ. It has the same position in the faith of the People of the Old Covenant as the Death and Resurrection of Jesus has in our faith. Both events have the characteristic of move¬ment from helplessness to freedom, death to life. Lesson Three described the situation of slavery in Egypt and the preparation of Moses as the leader whom God would use to deliver the sons of Israel. In this lesson we will concentrate on the Exodus itself.

      Chapter 1 History

      Section objective: To explain the historical nature and meaning of the Exodus event.

      Egypt, after the overthrow of the Hyksos rulers, enjoyed a great period of power and prestige. The 18th dynasty of Egypt (c. 1550-1306), which replaced the Hyksos, extended its control as far as the Euphrates to the north-east and as far south as the fourth cataract of the Nile. It was in this period that the famous Pharaoh Amenophis IV (c. 1364-1347) initiated his revolutionary new religion. He promoted one god, Aten, represented by the sun. Amenophis IV seems to have been so preoccupied with religious reform that he was not able to maintain the

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