Journey-Lesson 3: Preparations For The Exodus
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This is the third lesson in the Journey Bible Study Program. The chapters of this lesson are: chapter 1 -Oppression in Egypt, 2- The Leader and the Lord, 3- The Passover,4- the Teaching of the Church on the Bible. In this lesson we learn that God knows that his People are being oppressed in Egypt. We also learn how He prepared Moses his chosen leader by revealing Himself to him and teaching him what he is to do in Egypt. There is an interesting Appendix in which we learn how God's name as revealed to Moses as been treated by his People over the ages.
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 3 - Marcel Gervais
Journey-Lesson 3- Preparations For The Exodus
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 burning bush.
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.
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Content
Chapter 1Oppression in Egypt
Chapter 2 The leader and the Lord
Chapter 3 The Passover
Chapter 4 The Teaching of the Church on the Bible
Appendix
Answer key to Practice Questions
Self Test
Answer key to Self-test
Recommendations for group meeting
About the Author
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Psalm 103. The Psalm is a festal hymn of praise and thanksgiving for God’s tender compassion both to the individual and to the People. Likely written after the Exile, it blesses God for showing the gentleness of a Father throughout the history of Israel.
The Exodus motif is apparent in vss 6 and 7. Compare vs 8 with Exod 34:5-9, especially 34:6.
Note the pattern: Israel is oppressed. The Lord shows pity and delivers them. The People are full of gratitude and love. That is the pattern of the entire history of God’s People, and is what makes this psalm our own prayer.
Lesson Objective: To describe the background of the Exodus: the oppression in Egypt, the preparation of the leader, and the festivals to be used to commemorate the deliverance.
Chapter 1 Oppression in Egypt
Section Objective: To describe the situation in Egypt that signalled the need for deliverance.
Historical Background
The prosperity of the descendants of Jacob in Egypt is probably best situated in the