36. Answer the following questions in your
notebook:
1. Why did Joseph want to divorce Mary?
2. What prevented Joseph from his plan of divorcing
Mary?
3. What name will be given to the child that Mary was
bearing? What will be the mission of this child?
4. How is the event of May bearing a child related to
God’s promise made through the prophets?
41. In the history of
salvation God was
not content to
deliver Israel “out
of the bondage”
by bringing them
out of Egypt.
He also saves them
from their sin.
CCC 430-431
42. CCC 73
God has revealed
Himself fully by
sending His own Son,
in whom He
established His
covenant for ever.