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Journey: Lesson 30 - I Am With You Always
Journey: Lesson 30 - I Am With You Always
Journey: Lesson 30 - I Am With You Always
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This is lesson 30 of the Journey Bible Study Program series. There are two objectives in this lesson. The first chapter considers passages from the final chapters of the gospel of Matthew. In these passages Matthew describes the vigilance of the disciples as they await the coming of the Son of Man but also the meaning of the forgiveness of sins for which Jesus laid down his life. The objective of the section chapter is to describe the official teaching of the Church on the New Testament as found in Dei Verbum.

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Journey: Lesson 30 - I Am With You Always
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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 30 I Am With You Always

    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: " All the nations will gather before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep to his right and the goats to his left." Matthew 25:32.

    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.

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    CONTENTS

    Chapter 1To the End of Time (Matthew 24:1 28:20)

    Chapter 2 Chapters five and six of Dei Verbum

    Answer key to practice questions

    Self-test

    Answer key to self-test

    Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Thirty

    About The Author

    Psalm 22

    This is a most extraordinary prayer. In the simplest words it describes the worst of human suffering. The psalmist is alone, absolutely alone, deserted by men, abandoned by God and consumed by fear. Stripped naked of all that could dull the pain, conscious in every nerve, he feels all the hurt of rejection, all the terror of being the victim of evil forces attacking like ferocious animals (vss 12ff). And he has no answer to his question, Why? (vs 1). Yet he knows that if God loves him no more, he did love him once (vss 9ff). His enemies want to destroy even this shred of hope: Let the Lord deliver him, if He is his friend (vs 8). Their taunts seem true; God has turned on him: You leave me lying in the dust of death (vs 15).

    But abruptly the prayer changes (vss 22ff). From the isolation of fear he is suddenly translated to the full assembly of the People singing God's praises. The psalmist is alive, and all generations —past, present and future — shall rejoice. No other prayer so powerfully proclaims the death and resurrection of Jesus. Matthew refers to it many times in his account of the passion (27:35, 39, 43, 46).

    Lesson Objective To describe the teaching characteristic of the Gospel according to Matthew and to describe the official teaching of the Church on the New Testament as found in Dei Verbum.

    This lesson makes a departure from the format of our previous lessons. It is made up of two distinct parts: the first considers passages selected from the final chapters of the Gospel ac-cording to Matthew; the second comments on chapters five and six of Dei Verbum which contain the official teaching of the Church on the New Testament and on the use of the Bible in the Church. Each part will have its own learning objectives and practice questions.

    Chapter 1 To the End of Time (Matthew 24:1 - 28:20)

    Section Objective To describe the teaching characteristic of the Gospel according to Matthew as found in chapters 24 - 28.

    I have forewarned you (24:1 - 25:46)

    Objective 1.1 To describe the vigilance of disciples as they await the final coming of the Son of Man.

    Chapters 24 and 25 form the last great discourse of Jesus in the Gospel. It is full of warnings: "Let no one deceive you, do not believe it, stay awake."Jesus is alerting his followers to the temptations which will threaten them in the future; and the worst of these finds its image in something entirely natural, relaxation, drowsiness and sleep. These are metaphors for slackening in one's efforts to live the Gospel. The Lord urges vigilance, the watchfulness needed against every danger which threatens discipleship. The enemy of vigilance is boredom, weariness, seeking relief in distraction, a turning away from reality. The strongest support of vigilance is the awareness that at any moment all may come to an end, and not an end which is a mere termination. No, the last act will be a great judgment dividing those who watched from those who slept, faithful from unfaithful. Then some will be welcomed into eternal life, some sentenced to the death which never dies. The first temptation is to think that there is still plenty of time; the second that, for members of the Church, the judgment will be light and easy. These two chapters attack one delusion after the other in the hope of supporting disciples• in constant vigilance.

    Chapter 24 begins with Jesus predicting the destruction of the Temple (vs 2). The disciples pose three questions: when will the Temple be razed? what signs will foretell his coming? what signs will precede the end of the world? (vs 3). Jesus answers that no special signs will give warning that the end of the world is about to take place. The end will come

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