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    Journey: Lesson 25 - To Jerusalem
    Journey: Lesson 25 - To Jerusalem
    Journey: Lesson 25 - To Jerusalem
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    Journey: Lesson 25 - To Jerusalem

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is lesson twenty five of the Journey Bible Study Program series. In this lesson Luke describes the wisdom Jesus imparts to his disciples. In the first chapter Jesus teaches that discipleship is a journey with no resting place on earth and secondly that there is no more urgent binding obligation than to follow Jesus. In chapter two Jesus teaches his disciples how to manage material things, how to treat other people and how to serve God. In chapter three Luke gives us some parables that reveal what Jesus has been teaching especially how disciples should deal with riches.

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    PublisherMarcel Gervais
    Release dateFeb 7, 2014
    ISBN9781927766286
    Journey: Lesson 25 - To Jerusalem
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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 25 To Jerusalem

      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: ...He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and kissed him tenderly. Luke 15:20

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

      ~~~~~~~~

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1 Fallow Me (Luke 9:51 .12:12)

      Chapter 2 Wisdom and Time (Luke 12:13 - 14:35)

      Chapter 3 On Mercy and Riches (Luke 15: 19:23)

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Twenty

      About The Author

      Psalm 103

      This magnificent psalm of thanksgiving and praise is most appropriate to the Gospel according to Luke. God's care for his People and for all mankind, his forgiveness, his healing love, his compassion, are all expressed in this prayer. Psalm 103 is one of the many passages of the Old Testament which lead directly to the Good News proclaimed by Jesus.

      Lesson Objective: To describe the wisdom Jesus imparts to his disciples as found in the Gospel according to Luke 9:51 to 19:28.

      Note: Wisdom means the art of living according to the will of God, Creator and Redeemer, is connected with the four basic relationships of human life--to God, to people, to material things and to time. (see Lesson10, p.4; Lesson 17, p. 2). In Lesson 1 we described the great harmony of creating and the disharmony of the fall in terms of three of these relationships (to God, to people, to the earth).

      The image Luke uses to give unity to this section of the Gospel is that of the journey to Jerusalem, The section begins with Jesus resolutely setting out for Jerusalem (9:51) and ends with his arrival in the outskirts of the Holy City (19:28). Throughout these chapters Luke reminds us that Jesus is travelling (9:57; 10.38; 13:22; 14:25; 17:11; 18:31, 35; 19:1). Luke has already informed us that Jerusalem is the place where Jesus will undergo his exodus (death and resurrection, 9:31). The journey to Jerusalem is the beginning of this exodus. We learn later that in fact Jesus planned to arrive in Jerusalem for the Passover (22:14f).

      A disciple of Jesus is one who follows Jesus to the cross (9:23f); hence the journey to Jerusalem becomes an image of discipleship: In these chapters Luke shows us Jesus imparting his wisdom to his followers and to those whom he invites to discipleship. Wisdom is the art of managing human fife properly. The wise person knows how to manage time and material things appropriately, knows how to deal with other people well, and knows how to make his relationship to God what it should be.

      Chapter 1 Follow Me Luke 9:51 - 12:12)

      Section Objective: To describe the wisdom Jesus imparts to his disciples as found in the Gospel ac-cording to Luke 9:51 to 12:12.

      Luke tells us that Jesus knew both the place and the time for his being taken up (his death-resurrection-ascension); it would be in Jerusalem at the Passover. Jesus knew that the time had come to set out for Jerusalem. The first incident which Luke records teaches two important lessons on the wisdom of Jesus.

      Reading Luke 9:51-56

      There was hatred between Jews and Samaritans. The hostility had developed over many centuries (see Lesson 11, p. 30; Lesson 16, p. 8). Jesus does not share in this enmity: he sends messengers

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