Thomas Griffin 6/11/25 (For Busted Halo)
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Let Us Begin: New Book on the Life and Power of St. Francis
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When I was growing up, my parents took my three brothers and I to Mass at St. Barnabas every single Sunday. We rose early and religiously attended the 7:00 a.m. service, front row. We sat in the same pew every single week unless we were needed as altar servers that weekend. For the vast majority of my life, I had no idea who Barnabas was nor why he was important. It wasn’t until I began to send my first son, Benedict, to school at that same parish that I began to read more about him.
I had overlooked Barnabas my entire life, which, I think, is pretty common. The faithful don’t pay much attention to him because we tend to focus on Peter or Paul or, really, any of the Twelve Apostles. But Barnabas was actually very close friends with St. Paul; in fact, he was the one who introduced Paul to Peter and the other apostles (Acts 9:27).
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Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and three children. He has a masters degree in theology and is a masters candidate in philosophy. Thomas is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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