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    Journey: Lesson 27 -To the Ends Of The Earth
    Journey: Lesson 27 -To the Ends Of The Earth
    Journey: Lesson 27 -To the Ends Of The Earth
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    Journey: Lesson 27 -To the Ends Of The Earth

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is lesson 27 of the Journey Bible Study Program series. The main objective of this lesson is to describe the work of the Holy Spirit in the development of the Church. In chapter 1 Luke describes the new life of the first disciples after the resurrection of Jesus.In chapter 2 we learn how the Holy Spirit guided the Church in it's first crisis. In chpater 3 we learn how Luke describes the work of the Holy Spirit in guiding the Church to move out to the Gentiles.

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    PublisherMarcel Gervais
    Release dateFeb 12, 2014
    ISBN9781927766309
    Journey: Lesson 27 -To the Ends Of The Earth
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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 27 To The Ends Of The Earth

      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: • "They. Met in their houses for the breaking of bread, praising God and having favour with all the people." Acts 2:46-47

      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 The rebirth of the People (Acts 1:1.5:42)

      Chapter 2 Good out of evil (Acts 6:1 .12:25)

      Chapter 3 The Gospel to the Nations (Acts 13:1.28:31)

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Twenty-seven

      About The Author

      Psalm 87

      This psalm proclaims God’s love for Jerusalem, that is, his People. The psalmist predicts the day when nations great and small will be numbered among the citizens of the Holy City. The prophecy is fulfilled when the Power of God comes upon the disciples at Pentecost and guides them into becoming a People in which all nations can find a home. The extraordinary movement to enroll all nations in the People of God is one of the main subjects of the Acts of the Apostles.

      Lesson Objective: To describe the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church as taught in the Acts of the Apostles.

      The Acts of the Apostles is a book of hope, an exciting presentation of the life of the People of God overcoming obstacle after obstacle as they carry the Gospel to the very ends of the earth. Luke, the man who wrote the Gospel, composed Acts at some later time. His purpose is to demonstrate how it is the Spirit of God and nothing else who led the first community of disciples at every turn in their journey from Jerusalem to Rome. We should note right at the outset, however, that Luke's intention is not to deliver an ex act account of history, but to instruct us on the mystery of the Church. And the Church, whatever it may look like, is not a mere human thing, another little sect of enthusiasts. No, it is the People of God filled with the Spirit sent by Jesus the risen Lord. Luke is first a teacher of the faith, and only secondarily a historian. He remains firmly a teacher in the biblical tradition. He does not give us a dry series of principles, doctrines and laws, but a host of vivid, unforgettable scenes through which is revealed the mystery of God at work among his People. If Luke uses historical events, and he does, in his hands they become parables imparting faith. In this sense as he writes Acts, Luke continues to be an evangelist.

      In this lesson we will concentrate on three• aspects of the Gospel according to Acts. The first is how the Church functions by the Power of God, the Holy Spirit sent by the risen Lord. Luke focuses our attention, not on a general sort of divine power, but specifically on the Power of God sent by Him who died and rose again. It is the Spirit who brings life out of death. It is by the Power of God that strength comes out of weakness, good out of evil, life out of death. The second aspect of the work of the Spirit is this: though the Lord Jesus has ascended to God, by the Spirit he is still one with his disciples. In the teaching of the apostles, it is Jesus who teaches; in their miracles, it is Jesus who heals; while in the persecution of any of his members, it is

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