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    Journey: Lesson 24 - News Of Great Joy
    Journey: Lesson 24 - News Of Great Joy
    Journey: Lesson 24 - News Of Great Joy
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    Journey: Lesson 24 - News Of Great Joy

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is lesson twenty four of the Journey Bible Study Program series. The main purpose of Luke is to present Jesus as the Christ and his Good News. In chapter one we find Luke’s introduction of the Good News: the infancy narrative, then the ministry of John and Jesus in adulthood. In chapter two we are introduced to Jesus’ ministry in Galilee which is Good News to the Poor. The themes developed by Luke are – the People of God- the Holy Spirit- Prayer, the Prophet, The goods of the earth and the Poor.

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    PublisherMarcel Gervais
    Release dateFeb 7, 2014
    ISBN9781927766279
    Journey: Lesson 24 - News Of Great Joy
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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 24 News Of Great Joy

      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 took him up in his arms and blessed God and said...'my eyes have seen your salvation..." Luke 2:28,30,31

      COPYRIGHT © Guided Study Programs In 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 Luke's Introduction to the Good News

      Chapter 2 The Ministry in Galilee

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Twenty-four

      About The Author

      Psalm 67

      This joyful psalm of thanksgiving reflects the priestly prayer of blessing: May the Lord bless you and keep you ... let his face shine on you . . . and bring you peace (Num 6:240. What is special in this psalm is its invitation to all nations of the world to shout and sing for joy (vs 4) at the wonders God has worked through his People. This suits the mood of the Gospel according to Luke: Jesus, the Lord, is the greatest work of God done among his People for the sake of all the nations of the world.

      Lesson Objective: To describe themes characteristic of the Gospel according to Luke.

      Luke, the author of the Gospel, is also the author of the Acts of the Apostles. He most probably intended one large book in two parts: the Gospel presenting Jesus and his Good News, the Acts presenting the Church spreading the Good News to the ends of the earth. Somewhere in our past history the two parts of Luke's work were separated by the Gospel of John. In order to show the close relationship between the Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, in these four lessons (Lessons 24, 25, 26, 27) we will move directly from Luke's Gospel to the Acts of the Apostles.

      The main purpose of the Gospel according to Luke is to present Jesus, the Christ and his Good News. In writing the Gospel Luke used the traditions about Jesus which were preserved by the Church in his day. This is what each evangelist did. The evangelists, however, are also true authors: they not only respect the traditions of the Church, but they also bring their own special touch to these traditions. The Gospel according to Luke illustrates this very well: from beginning to end it is a combination of fidelity to the traditions and originality in the way these traditions are handled. In these lessons on Luke we intend to pay special attention to the particular genius of Luke, without losing sight of the main purpose of his Gospel. The special emphases and concerns of Luke are what we will call themes.

      To simplify your study we will now give a short description of the themes upon which we will focus in this lesson. These are not the only possible themes, but those characteristic of Luke.

      The People of God. Luke is very interested in showing how the faith of Christians has its historical roots in God's People. This faith started with Abraham, reached its perfection in Jesus and is carried into the world by the People recreated by the Spirit which Jesus sent. In the life of the People Jerusalem and its Temple is the meeting place of the old and the new. John the Baptist stands for the old pointing to the new; Mary, the mother of the Lord, stands for the best of the old which gave birth to the new. She is also the best of the new, the model of faith in the Lord.

      The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the power of God in action on earth. The whole history of the People is the work of the Spirit.

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