{"id":32293,"date":"2015-06-11T10:07:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32293"},"modified":"2015-06-11T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:16:59","slug":"saint-barnabas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/saint-barnabas-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Barnabas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/St-Barnabas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32295 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/St-Barnabas-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"St Barnabas\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/St-Barnabas-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/St-Barnabas-821x1024.jpg 821w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>When he converted to Christ from being a Cypriot Jew, Joseph changed his name to <em>Barnabas<\/em>, a name that means\u00a0\u201cson of encouragement.\u201d Barnabas seems to be the cousin of John Mark, the author of the Gospel of Mark.<\/p>\n<p>Barnabas&#8217;\u00a0conversion was total: \u00a0all of his money and property were given to the Church (Acts 4:32); he completely and unreservedly gave his life to Jesus. Like Paul, Barnabas was an apostle without being part of the 12. The Lord <strong><em>sent<\/em><\/strong> (the meaning of the word &#8216;apostle&#8217;) him as\u00a0a powerful missionary and preacher; he worked with Saint Paul. Barnabas&#8217; concern was to advocate that pagans (unbelievers) could be baptized as Christians without being circumcised. \u201cThe report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch\u2026for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith\u201d (Acts 11).<\/p>\n<p>The Episcopal and Lutheran liturgical calendars note Barnabas as an Apostle and a martyr. Biblically, Barnabas\u00a0is mentioned 27 times in the New Testament. He exhorted the Antioch community: \u201cWith steadfast purpose of heart remain with the Lord.\u201d Good\u00a0advice for all Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Some will say that Barnabas was the first bishop of Milan and is credited with bringing Clement to Christian faith (who later became the 4th bishop of Rome). Saint Barnabas\u00a0was martyred by stoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he converted to Christ from being a Cypriot Jew, Joseph changed his name to Barnabas, a name that means\u00a0\u201cson of encouragement.\u201d Barnabas seems to be the cousin of John Mark, the author of the Gospel of Mark. Barnabas&#8217;\u00a0conversion was total: \u00a0all of his money and property were given to the Church (Acts 4:32); he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/saint-barnabas-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Barnabas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3194,2442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32299,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293\/revisions\/32299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}