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    Journey: Introduction
    Journey: Introduction
    Journey: Introduction
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    Journey: Introduction

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is the introduction to the Journey Bible Study Program which contains 20 lesson on the Old Testament and 20 lesson on the New Testament. In this introduction the student is given the information required to navigate the Bible. This includes a list of the Biblical books and the abbreviations generally used to designate each book, some instructions on use of chapter numbers and verse numbers,and there is an explanation of the discrepancies found in the number of psalms. Once the student is aware of these details he or she should be able to move directly in the first lesson. The series follows the order of the books in the Bible as they are found in all of the versions of the Bible on sale in book stores.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarcel Gervais
    Release dateDec 24, 2013
    ISBN9781927766033
    Journey: Introduction
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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-Introduction

      by Marcel Gervais, Emeritus Archbishop of the diocese of Ottawa, Canada

      Copyright 2013, Emmaus Publications on Smashwords

      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

      Nihil Obstat: Michael T. Ryan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

      Imprimatur: + John M. Sherlock, Bishop of London

      London, March 31, 1980

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      Table of Content

      Foreword

      Outline of Content of Lesons

      Instruction on the use of Journey

      Three events in the history of the People

      Table of Important Dates

      The Biblical Books

      Explanation of Biblical References

      Standard References

      About the Author

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      Foreword

      It is one journey of faith, in various stages, but one journey. The events and persons considered in these lessons are our heritage, for they are part of the one journey.

      The People of God, both under the Covenant made through Moses and under the Covenant made in Jesus, wrote many books about their experiences. The Holy Spirit gave the People the gift of discerning which of these writings were, in fact, inspired by God. This process of discernment took many centuries.

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