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    Journey: Lesson 28 - The Way Of Discipleship
    Journey: Lesson 28 - The Way Of Discipleship
    Journey: Lesson 28 - The Way Of Discipleship
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    Journey: Lesson 28 - The Way Of Discipleship

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is lesson 28 of the Journey Bible Study Program series. In this lesson we see how Matthew presents Jesus as the fulfilment of the Law. In the first chapter we have Matthew's infancy narrative in which he shows us that even Jesus' childhood demonstrates that Jesus is Israel's Good News to the world. In the second chapter we find Jesus teaching the beatitudes in the sermon on the Mount and these show that Jesus' teaching is the fulfilment of the Law.

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    PublisherMarcel Gervais
    Release dateFeb 23, 2014
    ISBN9781927766316
    Journey: Lesson 28 - The Way Of Discipleship
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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 28 The Way Of Discipleship

      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: "How happy are the poor in spirit, the kingdom of heaven is theirs." Matt 5:3

      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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      The Way of Discipleship (Matthew 1:1•7:29)

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1 Introduction to the Good News (Matthew 1:1.4:25)

      Chapter 2 The justice of the kingdom (Matthew 5:1•7:29)

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendations for group meeting on lesson Twenty-eight

      About The Author

      Psalm 1

      The first of the Psalms makes a splendid meditation preliminary to the study of Matthew's Gospel since it carries a similar appeal and challenge. This voice from Israel's past, in power and joy, blesses the man who follows the way of God and warns him against those who choose evil. Acceptance of his Creator's law will yield him the lasting vitality of the tree fortunate enough to strike its roots into a life-giving stream. Desertion of God can only mean extinction. The two ultimate choices are proposed by Matthew over and over. Like Moses, another mighty representative of ancient truth, and one who is never far from Matthew's thoughts, the evangelist sets before us life and death and urges us to choose well (Deut 30:15-20).

      Lesson Objective: To describe the teaching of the first seven chapters of the Gospel according to Matthew.

      From earliest times this Gospel has been favoured by Christians. Marked by evident order and clarity particularly in presenting the teaching of Jesus, it was the one most frequently used in presenting the faith. At the heart of the Gospel stands the figure of Jesus, majestic and appealing. Mighty Son of God, he is yet full of compassion. Though holding all authority, he is gentle and merciful. Constantly proclaiming the kingdom of God and patiently explaining its meaning to his disciples, he is the supreme teacher. Poor and humble, dedicated to the will of his Father, he is himself the model for all his followers.

      But the central truth Matthew teaches about Christ is greater still: Jesus is he who triumphed over sin and death and who has been given the name which is above every name. He is the Lord. His is the name once reserved for God alone. Jesus is the Lord. From the first page to the last, therefore, Jesus is Emmanuel, God-with-us. For Matthew, as for all disciples, Jesus is not simply one through whom God was present in a period of time in the past; the Lord Jesus was, is and always will be God-with-us, even to the end of time (1:23; 18:20; 28:20). He is the presence of God in and through his People, the Church, continuing his ministry until heaven and earth are transformed into the perfect kingdom of the Father.

      The Father began to reveal his will for mankind in Abraham. In Jesus he completes the work of revealing his will. Jesus, however, not only proclaimed the Father's will, he also accomplished it perfectly. These thoughts are fundamental to Matthew’s understanding of the kingdom of heaven (of God). God, the great King, wants his rule of justice, love and mercy to be established, to be made real on earth. Since Jesus lived the Father's will totally, in him the rule, the reign, the kingdom of God has come upon earth. By his life, his teaching and most especially by his death and resurrection, the kingdom of heaven is made present. The presence of the risen Lord continues on earth in the company of his disciples. That is why in Matthew, the community of disciples, the Church, can be called the kingdom of heaven. It is not because the Church is perfect and all its members virtuous beyond reproach that it can be called the kingdom. The Church is in fact an imperfect community; there are many weeds growing along with the wheat (13:36ff). And yet the Lord Jesus remains with this mixed band of followers, he safeguards them, empowers them with his own authority, sanctifies them with his presence.

      He refers to them as "the kingdom of the Son of Man" (13:41). The Church, then, has in her midst the one who will judge the Church on the last day when all will stand before the King to give account of their lives. It is then, after the final purification, that the kingdom of the Father will be fully established. And so, in this Gospel, the references to the kingdom of heaven are most often references to the Church as the beginning and sign on earth of the perfect kingdom of the Father in heaven. Though incomplete and imperfect, the Church can be rightly called the kingdom of heaven, because the Lord has sworn

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