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    Journey: Lesson 5 -You Shall Be My People - The Covenant
    Journey: Lesson 5 -You Shall Be My People - The Covenant
    Journey: Lesson 5 -You Shall Be My People - The Covenant
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    Journey: Lesson 5 -You Shall Be My People - The Covenant

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is the 5th lesson in the Journey Bible Study Program series. In this lesson Chapter 1 presents the Covenant made through Moses, Chapter 2 presents the literary form of the Covenant passages and explains some of the elements of the Covenant, Chapter 3 is called Bond of Communion and it discusses the relationships that are formed by the establishment of the Covenant. In Chapter 4 the gives us some of the most important teachings on revelation, what is revelation, it's purpose and how revelations takes place.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmmaus Publications
    Release dateJan 7, 2014
    ISBN9781927766088
    Journey: Lesson 5 -You Shall Be My People - The Covenant
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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 5- You Shall Be My People- The Covenant

      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: ... Moses before the People.

      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 Covenant Made Through Moses

      Chapter 2 The Literary Form of the Covenant Passages

      Chapter 3 Bond of Communion

      Chapter 4 On Chapter One of Dei Verbum

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Five

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Psalm 81. A joyful praise of the Lord's relationship with his People, this psalm was sung at the Feast of the Tabernacles, the autumn remembrance of the period in the wilderness and the gift of the Law at Sinai. After an invitation to celebrate (vss 1-5), there is a description of the Covenant at Sinai (vss 6-10) and of the People's ungrateful refusal to obey (vss 11-16). But even in the fact of Israel's apostasy, the Lord remains faithful, kind and loving. Note the warm, personal tone of the psalm, our feast, my people.

      Introduction

      Lessons Three and Four have described how the Lord freed his People and led them out of bondage, out of the inhumane society of Egypt, that house of slavery. He had con¬sistently demanded: Let my People go, in order that they might serve me. The Hebrews were to be delivered from slavery in order to be free to serve God; they are no longer slaves but they are still servants. They are called to form a new society, a just and brotherly society of freedom. It is now time to look at what it means to serve God as a free People, his People. Lessons Five and Six thus consider the meaning of true freedom.

      Lesson objective To discuss the nature and effects of the Covenant.

      Chapter 1 The Covenant Made Through Moses

      While travelling through the desert, the newly-emancipated slaves had a remarkable, unforgettable experience: they encountered God. Their experience was remembered as the time when God entered into a special relationship with them. They accepted this rela¬tionship and thereby became his special People. God's offer and the People's accep¬tance is expressed in terms of Covenant. Later writers, fearing that the Covenant would be understood as a cold contract, used warm and emotional images to express it: the Covenant is like a marriage based on mutual love; it is like the relationship between par¬ent and child; or it is like an adult adopting an abandoned child out of love and concern. Other images are used as well: the Covenant relationship is like the one between a good shepherd and his flock, or a good and just king and his faithful people. These

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