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    Journey Lesson 34 Rejoice In The Lord
    Journey Lesson 34 Rejoice In The Lord
    Journey Lesson 34 Rejoice In The Lord
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    Journey Lesson 34 Rejoice In The Lord

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is lesson 34 of the Journey Bible Study Program series. The objective of this lesson is to describe the life and ministry of Paul and to describe his teaching in the first letter to the Thessalonians and the letter to the Philippians. In chapter 2 we descibe Paul's message to the church at Thessalonike , particularly his teaching on the "Parousia" In chapter 3 we describe Paul's teaching to the Philippians on growth in holiness and his warnings against those who threaten this growth

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    PublisherMarcel Gervais
    Release dateMar 31, 2014
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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 Lesson 34 Rejoice In The Lord - Marcel Gervais

      Journey- Lesson 34 Rejoice In The Lord

      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: "Though he was in the form of God he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped. hut emptied himself, taking the form of a servant." Phil 2:6-7

      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 1 The Life and Ministry of Paul

      Chapter 2 Joy and Hope at Thessalonika (1 Thessalonians)

      Chapter 3 Bringing a Good Work To Completion (Letter to the Philippians)

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Thirty-four

      About The Author

      Psalm 139

      A hymn of praise to the Lord who is personally present to his creatures, wherever they maybe. The psalmist is filled with wonder at the greatness, the wisdom and the loving care of God, who watches over us from the moment of our conception (vss 1-18). Vss 19-22 form a curse section in which the psalmist's love for God is expressed as indignation at those who hate the Lord and reject His will.

      For Saint Paul, the Lord is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the full expression of the wisdom and the might of God (1 Cor 1:25). The Apostle's phrase in Christ expresses the intimate personal presence of the Lord. Paul sees what the psalmist was unable to see, that Christ is one with us, most of all in our suffering and death. Even these unite us to the Saviou r who suffered and died for us (see Phil 3:10).

      Lesson Objective: To describe the life and ministry of Paul and to describe his teaching in the first letter to the

      Thessalonians and the letter to the Philippians.

      Chapter 1 The Life and Ministry of Paul

      Section Objective To describe the life and ministry of Paul.

      Paul's background

      About four years after the birth of Jesus, St. Paul was born to a Jewish family of the tribe of Benjamin, in the city of Tarsus. Tarsus, the capital of the Roman province of Cilicia, was situated close to the Mediterranean at the foot of the Taurus mountains. In Paul's time it was an important city, a centre both of commerce and of Greek culture.

      Paul's family belonged to the Diaspora. The Diaspora is the term which came to be used around the time of Christ for Jewish communities outside of Palestine. Such settlements had been common from the time of the deportations under the Assyrians and later, under the Babylonians. Although the earliest had been created by force, later colonies were the result of voluntary emigration. The actual total living outside of Palestine during the Roman occupation has been estimated at 4,500,000. This number represented 7% of the population of the empire.

      The Diaspora Jews played an important role in the empire and enjoyed special privileges not often granted to minorities. Those who came under the rule of the Ptolemies (333 B.C. - 63 B.C.) had won valuable concessions; under Roman dominion (63 B.C. - 135 A.D.) these were confirmed and expanded. Some of the privileges which they enjoyed were the right to organize their own communities politically and religiously, and the right to self-jurisdiction, to the extent that it did not infringe on the common law of the empire. They were free to practice their religion and were exempt from both emperor-worship and military service. In addition, they might become Roman citizens. This privilege was usually acquired, but once acquired was passed on by birth, as in the case of Paul. Paul, therefore, was both a Jew and a Roman citizen. In fact, Paul is a Roman name; Saul is his Jewish name.

      Like all pious Jews of the Diaspora, Paul and his family would have been devoted to the Temple, the priesthood and the sacrifices in Jerusalem. They

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