St. Barnabas
He was one of the seventy apostles selected by Jesus for preaching the Gospel. His birth detail is not available but was born a Jew and his birth name was Joseph. He sold all his properties and placed the proceeds on the feet of the apostles and the apostles gave him the name ‘Barnabas’, meaning ‘Son of consolation’ or ‘Son of encouragement’. He appears in the Acts of the Apostles and in some of the epistles of Apostle Paul. There is also a belief that both St. Paul and St. Barnabas were students of the Rabbi Gamaliel. Barnabas and Paul under took missionary journeys together. St. Barnabas along with St. Paul attended the First Council of Jerusalem, where the Apostles under the leadership of St. Peter decided that the Gentile converts to Christianity need not undergo circumcision. He was sent by the Apostles to Antioch to supervise the church activities there. He went to Cyprus in the year 45 A.D. with St. Paul and there a Roman Official Sergius Paulus was converted to Christianity by them in the island of Paphos in Salamis. When he was preaching the Gospel in Cyprus, the Jews stoned him to death without tolerating his extraordinary success in his missionary work at a place called Salamis in 61 A.D. But St. Barnabas appeared in a dream to Arthemios, Archbishop of Constantia (Salamis) in the year 478 and gave some indication about his burial place beneath a carob tree. Arthemios found out the grave and when the remains of Barnabas was taken it was found that a manuscript of St. Matthew’s Gospel was on the remains of his breast. The manuscript Gospel of Matthew was presented by the arch-bishop to the Emperor Zeno at Constantinople and got certain privileges from the Eastern Emperor Zeno. St. Barnabas was the founder of the Church of Cyprus.
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“Barnabas was a man of great kindness, full of the Holy Spirit, who strengthened the early Church.”
“Barnabas was a good man, filled with the Holy Spirit and faith, and many were brought to the Lord through him.”
“Barnabas, with his apostolic zeal, carried the light of Christ to those in darkness.”
“Let us love the cross of Christ, for through it we find salvation.”
“Barnabas, the ‘son of encouragement,’ shows us how to support and uplift the Church through faith and generosity.”
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PRAYER IN HONOUR OF ST BARNABAS
O God, who decreed that Saint Barnabas,
a man filled with faith and the Holy Spirit,
should be set apart to convert the nations,
grant that the Gospel of Christ,
which he strenuously preached,
may be faithfully proclaimed by word and by deed.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity
of the Holy Spirit,
one God, forever and ever.
Amen.
St. Barnabas Novena Prayer
God our Father,
You filled Saint Barnabas with faith
and the Holy Spirit
and sent him to convert the nations.
Help us to proclaim the gospel by word and deed.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit,
one God,
for ever and ever.
Amen
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THE COLLECT
O LORD God Almighty, who didst endue thy holy Apostle Barnabas with singular gifts of the Holy Ghost: Leave us not, we beseech thee, destitute of thy manifold gifts, nor yet of grace to use them alway to thy honour and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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