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    Journey: Lesson 22 - Servants Of The Kingdom
    Journey: Lesson 22 - Servants Of The Kingdom
    Journey: Lesson 22 - Servants Of The Kingdom
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    Journey: Lesson 22 - Servants Of The Kingdom

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is lesson 22 of the Journey Bible Study Program series. The objective of this lesson is to describe the teaching of Mark in chapters 6 to 10 of the Gospel of Mark. Chapter 1 deals with chapters 6 to 8 and on the formation of the People he chose to be his disciples.In chapter 2 we have Mark's teaching in chapters 8 to 10 of his gospel.In this section Mark shows us that the disciples are beginning to see -they recognize Jesus as the Christ.

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    PublisherMarcel Gervais
    Release dateJan 22, 2014
    ISBN9781927766255
    Journey: Lesson 22 - Servants Of The Kingdom
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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 22 Servants Of The Kingdom

      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: ...So throwing off his cloak, he jumped up and went to Jesus.. Mark 10:50

      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.

      ~~~~~~~~

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1 Eyes that do not see (Mark 6:7 - 8:26)

      Chapter 2 Ears that do not hear (Mark 8:27 - 10:52)

      Conclusion

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Twenty-two

      About The Author

      Psalm 100

      A song inviting us to praise the Lord who is our shepherd. In this lesson you will read of Jesus, our Lord, making or remaking the People of God —he made us and we belong to him (vs 3). You will see Jesus, as the Good Shepherd, feeding the People with his teaching and with food. You will also see him opening up the People of God to all nations, making it possible for all to enter his flock. The ancient Temple referred to by the gates and the courts (vs 4), has now become the Church itself, the renewed People of God. The goodness, the love and fidelity of God is revealed to us in all that Jesus does and says (vs 5).

      Lesson Objective To describe the teaching in Mark 6:7 - 10:52 on Jesus and on the People he formed.

      Introduction

      In Lesson 21 we saw Jesus preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of God. We heard him teach in parables about the mysterious ways of the Kingdom. We read of his many works of power and healing. We noticed how he attracted large crowds, among them the religious and political leaders who found him more and more offensive and objectionable. His association with known sinners was largely responsible for the conflict. We also noted that from the very first Jesus called people to be with him, to assist him. Among those who chose to follow him, Jesus selected twelve in particular to be his companions and to share his work. Jesus was renewing the People of God and making it clear that the People of God would no longer be a matter of blood relations within an ethnic group. The rejection by his own relatives in Nazareth made this clear. That is where we left off.

      As this section (6:7 - 10:52) begins, we see Jesus instructing his chosen Twelve and sending them off to preach and heal. If anyone ever had the right to be a rugged individualist needing help from no one, it was Jesus, the Son of God. Jesus made no such claim; instead he accepted his human limitations and relied on helpers. Jesus was no perfectionist either; while he took the time to prepare his Twelve, he did not wait until they knew and understood everything before inviting them into his work. Throughout this lesson you will see the disciples, and the Twelve in particular, misunderstanding Jesus; Jesus reproaches them, but never rejects them. And they stay with him in spite of the confusion which his teaching causes in them. They are quite typical of us all.

      Note: You will remember from Lesson 21 that there are three general stages in the development of the Gospel of Mark (Jesus, the Church,

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