June 11: Called to Mediate the Faith with the Word Now Made Flesh

Master of the Modena Book of Hours: Saint Barnabas
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, 1390-1400

Memorial of Saint Barnabas, Apostle

Reading I: Acts 11:21b-26; 13:1-3

For Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were brought to the Lord (NRSV, Acts 11:24).

Father, your Apostle Barnabas went to Antioch and the divine life that you had shared with him (For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith) radiated out from him to others who then came to believe.

Father, as you share your life through the Word with all who will accept it, you also challenge us to manifest it to others that thus they too may come to believe and to believe more fully.

Father, the Word, now made flesh in our Lord Jesus Christ, is the one mediator between you and us. As we share in your life through him, we are also called to share in that one mediation.

Help us, Father, to bring others to the faith and to a greater share in your life as did your Apostle Barnabas.

Through Christ our Lord. Amen.