About this episode

Bishop Barron discusses the significance of Jesus' question to Peter in the context of the Church's foundation.

Friends, for this Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Church brings us once again, with Jesus and the disciples, to Caesarea Philippi, and to a famous question: “Who do you say that I am?” The main characters in this endlessly fascinating scene are Jesus and Peter, and whenever the focus is on Peter, we’re talking about ecclesiology, the study of the Church. So we learn something very important here about both Jesus and the Church, and it has to do with the Rock upon which the former builds the latter.

People in this episode

Host: Bishop Robert Barron

Topics covered

• Church
• Jesus
• Peter
• ecclesiology
• faith
• spirituality

Keywords

• Church
• Jesus
• Peter
• Caesarea Philippi
• ecclesiology
• faith
• spirituality

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Places: Caesarea Philippi

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