Building upon a Rock

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Hi all

Todays gospel talks about listening to Jesus’ words being like building on a rock that doesn’t shift etc etc. It struck me that this same passage was in the Gospel where Peter is renamed the rock by Jesus. Jesus has said in the same gospel that rocks are for building upon being his words and Peter the rock upon which he would build his church.

I guess the question I am trying to ask is if anyone is aware of any tradition of the rock/sands passage from Matt 7 being tied in with the Rock and church passage from the same gospel?

Have any of the Church fathers tied this in? Does it work for you? etc etc.

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Nicholas
 
The following is from St. Thomas Aquinas’ “Catena Aurea” - where he quotes pseudo-Chrysostom:

He said not, I will account him that hears and does, as wise; but He shall be likened to a wise man. He then that is likened is a man; but to whom is he likened? To Christ; but Christ is the wise man who has built His house, that is, the Church, upon a rock, that is upon the strength of the faith. … The Church then which Christ has founded, neither the rain of false doctrine shall sap, nor the blast of the Devil overturn, nor the rush of mighty floods remove. …
 
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