Collect:
Almighty GOD, help us to follow the example of YOUR servant Barnabas. Help us to console and comfort the sad, the lonely and the broken-hearted; and to use all that we have in YOUR service and the service of our fellow human beings remembering always that in giving we receive abundantly; and strengthen us to spread the Gospel of new life and to stand by all who make a new beginning in life; through JESUS CHRIST our LORD, who lives and reigns with YOU together with the HOLY SPIRIT, one GOD, world without end.
Amen.