Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Journey Lesson 38 The Old And The New
    Journey Lesson 38 The Old And The New
    Journey Lesson 38 The Old And The New
    Ebook55 pages46 minutes

    Journey Lesson 38 The Old And The New

    By Marcel Gervais

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    This is lesson 38 of the Journey Bible Study Program series. The objective of this lesson is to describe the teaching in the letter to the Hebrews and the letter of James. In the first chapter we describe what is meant by the priesthood of Christ in the letter to the Hebrews, and how an appreciation of that priesthood affects the life of the Christian. In chapter 2 we describe the practical advice James offers to make faith come alive through actions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarcel Gervais
    Release dateApr 3, 2014
    ISBN9781927766415
    Journey Lesson 38 The Old And The New
    Author

    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.

    Read more from Marcel Gervais

    Related to Journey Lesson 38 The Old And The New

    Titles in the series (43)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Christianity For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      What The New Testament Doesn’t Say

      May 20, 2019

      When professing Christians deny Biblical creation, we often point them to the Words of Jesus and the New Testament authors, which clearly affirm their own belief in Biblical creation. Because Christians are, by definition, people who believe what Jes

      5 min read

    • Article

      Getting to Know God The Personhood & Deity of the Holy Spirit

      Jan 1, 2021

      In examining the biblical revelation concerning God, we come upon an apparent contradiction. The Bible teaches that there is only one God, but it also teaches that Jesus is God. And what do we make of situations where God the Son is speaking to God t

      3 min read

    • Article

      Getting to Know God Jesus is God

      Nov 27, 2020

      The doctrine of the Trinity is what makes Christianity’s monotheism unique. Last month we began a three-part series on the Trinity. We noted how the Bible’s monotheism differs from the monotheism of Islam and Judaism. This month, as we continue to ex

      3 min read

    • Article

      A New Day Of Pentecost Part VI

      May 19, 2023

      The scripture above records the final words of Jesus Christ to His disciples before He was taken up into a cloud. One of His last promises was that the Father would send the Holy Spirit, and the baptism of the Spirit would enable the disciples to acc

      2 min read

    • Article

      Radiance

      Dec 30, 2022

      Radiance
      7 min read

    • Article

      Characters Of The Bible Anna

      Nov 25, 2022

      Characters Of The Bible Anna
      3 min read

    • Article

      AGENTS OF Change

      Apr 13, 2020

      What on earth is a Reformational church? The Reformational church is God’s agent of constant change from glory to glory, conforming to the image of His Son. That’s why we are straightening and aligning the church to what Jesus intended in the first p

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Holiness Of God

      Nov 19, 2021

      The Holiness Of God
      3 min read

    • Article

      A New Day Of Pentecost Part Lll

      Feb 10, 2023

      Over the last few issues of JOY, I have been sharing insights about the day of Pentecost in the Bible (Acts 2). To fully appreciate the context of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on this day, we must first look at the events that took place before

      2 min read

    • Article

      Did You Know?

      Dec 31, 2021

      How many books are in the Bible? The Bible contains 66 books, divided among the Old and New Testaments. How many books are in the Old Testament? There are 39 books in the Old Testament. How many books are in the New Testament? There are 27 books

      3 min read

    • Article

      Characters of the Bible Epaphroditus & Epaphras

      Dec 29, 2023

      This month we will take a look at two biblical men who, while related in name, served the early Church in different ways. The name Epaphroditus and its diminutive form Epaphras are male names associated with the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite. Lite

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Great Shaking

      Nov 27, 2020

      Way back in the last millennium when I was still a teenager there was a popular song made famous by Jerry Lee Lewis, “There’s been a whole lotta shakin goin’ on.”This is certainly true of today’s world. One major difference between the current global

      5 min read

    • Article

      A Burden On The Heart Of The Believer “I Charge You Therefore, Preach The Word!”

      Oct 21, 2019

      Most of us would recognise that the last words of a great and godly man or woman before their death would likely be words of great value. Words to consider and ponder. Jesus’ seven statements from the Cross are of that category and are thus recorded

      5 min read

    • Article

      Ask Val

      Jun 16, 2023

      Ask Val
      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Journey Lesson 38 The Old And The New

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Journey Lesson 38 The Old And The New - Marcel Gervais

      Journey- Lesson 38 The Old and the New

      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: Although he was Son. he learned obedience through suffering and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him. Heb 5:8-9

      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 Our Great High Priest (Hebrews)

      Chapter 2 Faith in Action (James)

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Thirty-eight

      About The Author

      Psalm 110

      The psalmist sings of the great honours and extraordinary power God grants to the man who rules His People. He makes him king from the womb of his mother and invites him to the most honoured place at His right hand. The Lord endows him with strength to conquer all his enemies. On him God bestows an honour even greater than kingship; He makes him a priest. Like Melchizedek (Gen 14:17ff) he is both king and priest.

      This psalm applies perfectly to Jesus alone. He is King and Priest forever. Victorious over all evil, he is seated at the right of God the Father, where as our great High Priest he intercedes for us. To him we pledge our loyalty and live it by the strength of our faith and the quality of our lives.

      Because of the images of violence in its last verses, this psalm may be difficult to pray. It is best to read these final lines as a poetic description of the complete victory over the forces of evil achieved by Jesus, our King and High Priest.

      Chapter 1 Our Great High Priest (Hebrews)

      Section Objective: To describe what is meant by the priesthood of Christ in the letter to the Hebrews, and how an appreciation of that priesthood affects the life of the Christian.

      In the seventh chapter of Hebrews much is made of the fact that although we know almost nothing about Melchizedek, the king of Salem in Genesis 14, he is enormously important in helping us to see who Jesus is. The letter to the Hebrews is itself in some ways like that mysterious monarch: we know very little about where or when it was written, or by whom. And yet it is a marvellously rich statement of our faith in Jesus, who is "the radiant light of God's glory, bearing the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his powerful command" (1:3).

      Hebrews has often been attributed to St. Paul. But his name is not found in the letter, and in the early manuscripts its title is simply, "To the Hebrews. The style is not that of Paul, nor are many of the ideas. We simply do not know who wrote it. In the third century A.D., Origen summed up the situation: But who wrote the epistle, in truth, God knows." Whoever he was, the writer was a scholar versed in the Jewish tradition of scripture interpretation, a master of language and a concerned pastor.

      As to the readers to whom the work is addressed, various guesses have been made. In view of the author's stress on the Old Testament (especially Old Testament priesthood and sacrifice) it is probable that they

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1