Journey Lesson 39 Peter And John

By Marcel Gervais

This is lesson 39 of the Journey Bible Study Program series The objective of this lesson is to describe what makes the Church distinct from all other peoples according to the First Letter of Peter, and to describe the teaching of the First Letter of John on the conditions for communion with God. In chapter 1 we describe the teaching in the First letter of Peter. In chapter 2 we describe the teaching of the First Letter of John on the conditions for communion with God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marcel Gervais
• Release date: Apr 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781927766422

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 Thirty-nine Peter and John

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: Although he was Son. he learned obedience through suffering and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him. Heb 5:8-9

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 A People Set Apart (1 Peter)

Chapter 2 Living the Truth (1 John)

Answer key to practice questions

Self-test

Answer key to self-test

Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Thirty-nine

About The Author

Psalm 122: A pilgrim sings a joyful song of thanksgiving as he and his companions arrive at the gates of Jerusalem. The Holy City, heart of the People, is a symbol of all God's favours—his abiding Presence, his Covenant-love, the justice, unity and peace he has created among the Tribes. The pilgrim confidently prays for the final peace and happiness God has promised his People.

This prayer can be ours as we study the letters of Peter and John. These great writers reawaken us to the love God has shown in founding our Jerusalem, the Church, where "brothers and friends" enjoy the presence of the risen Lord. Yet the Church is a pilgrim like the psalmist, except that she is making her way to a shrine which lies beyond the horizons of the earth. All her members confidently look forward to the day of arrival when the Lord will bring to perfection in the heavenly Jerusalem what. he has so magnificently begun in the Church.

Lesson Objective To describe what makes the Church distinct from all other peoples according to the First Letter of Peter, and to describe the teaching of the First Letter of John on the conditions for communion with God.

Chapter 1 A People Set Apart (1 Peter)

Section Objective To describe what makes the Church distinct from all other peoples according to the First Letter of Peter.

The Church is unlike any other people, so different that she is like a stranger, an alien, an exile among the nations of the earth (1:17; 2:11). She is and she is called to become ever more clearly God's People, set apart for his purposes (2:9f). This conviction underlies everything in the First Letter of Peter. The Church is distinct by the truths she holds and by the way of life she leads. The letter teaches her unique doctrines and the exceptional standards she is called to live by. This little book is a concise and well-rounded presentation of the faith and morals of the Christian people.

Many of the New Testament letters were written in response to particular crises in the Church. (A problem of division in the community, or immorality,