# The Church Is Built on the Rock

An episode of [Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/75551187), 23 Jun 2025, 15 min.

Audio: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/jmptnshm2ifyfcnq/06_29_25_Audiob78l6.mp3

Friends, this year, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul falls on a Sunday, and I want to spend some time reflecting especially on Saint Peter. Around the year 64, Shimon Bar Yonah, a fisherman from Galilee, was put to death brutally in the Circus of Nero. But while the Roman Empire is long gone and the successor of Nero doesn’t exist, the empire of this fisherman, Peter the Apostle, is everywhere, and in May, his 266th successor walked out onto the loggia of Saint Peter’s Basilica, built over the very spot where he was buried.

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