QUIZ: when was the BEGINNING of the Church?

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Now I obviously know the answer to this question otherwise I would not have posted it in quiz format and will be placing the answer up here should no one get it right or simply not oblige me as I consider the answer to be a divine truth and so a matter of great importance.
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St. John Chrysostom homily 86 includes commentary on John 20:22-23, which is the time when Christ showed his wounds from his crucifixion to St. Thomas:
“He breathed on them, and said, Receive the Holy Ghost. Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.” … Again, we see that the Apostles were given to the Church at one time by the Father, at another by the Son, at another by the Holy Ghost, and that the “diversities of gifts” 1 Corinthians 12:4 belong to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
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http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/240186.htm
 
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St. Peter is the Rock upon which the Church is built.

Yet not the beginning. A fair guess but no.
 
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My last guesses…or my last chances for trombones are:
  1. Incarnation
  2. When God spoke His plan for redemption after the Fall, i.e. Gen 3, 15.
    Other than that, I got nothin’!
 
Both quite reasoned responses. Number two is a very interesting answer and I would suggest longer thought upon that line of thinking. I’d guess that you can add more as there’s no limit to how many tries one makes in THIS quiz.

While not yet a horn, I’ll allow a trumpet for encouragement’s sake - quite a few notches up from the trombone.
 
Insightful. An absolutely integral part of it, obviously, but still no. Your answer is the means by which it could all come to be. Not the actual beginning, though. In terms of manifestation.

Thank you for this, however.
 
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There was the Old Covenant and the New. God did not do away with the Old, but rather completed it with the New.

The Last Supper is a most important event both then and now, sacramentally.

While not the ‘beginning’.
 
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The Last Supper was the institution of our priesthood. On a different frame of reference, the angels who chose God have been a part of the Church Triumphant since their choice, no?
 
All is in God’s Will, and so, yes; nevertheless, the term ‘beginning of the Church’ is a definitively specific term that is an event ever-rooted in God’s Will from all eternity, while also being the realised manifestation of His Will in the context of time.
 
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So the actual death of Christ at which time the veil was rent and man is allowed into the Holy of Holies.
 
If you want to go way back, I would say the Garden of Eden. God’s first relationship/covenant with man.
 
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The Church is mystical and therefore prophetical, and so yes - thinking in a linear way to attempt answer to this quiz is a natural route for human beings, making this is a particularly good answer as it voices a certain awareness of the spiritual reality, not limited by the restrictions of our temporal existence.

Still not there, though.
 
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This was an affirmation of St. Peter’s role as the first of the ‘Servants of the Servants of God’ - the beginning of papal succession. I like the way you honed in on the significance of the name-change.

Thank you.

God bless.
 
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Ummm, yes, it is Pentecost. The Catechism explicitly states that this is when the Church became manifested.
At the end of this mission of the Spirit, Mary became the Woman, the new Eve (“mother of the living”), the mother of the “whole Christ.” As such, she was present with the Twelve, who “with one accord devoted themselves to prayer,” at the dawn of the “end time” which the Spirit was to inaugurate on the morning of Pentecost with the manifestation of the Church. CCC 726
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Unless you are specifically speaking of the seminal origins of the Church instead of the manifestation of the Church in the physical world. Then it would be before the dawn of time in the mind of God.
 
All came to be through Christ and all saved by the merits of His Resurrection. An excellent answer while not the correct one.
 
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The Church is mystical and therefore prophetical, and so yes - thinking in a linear way to attempt answer to this quiz is a natural route for human beings, making this is a particularly good answer as it voices a certain awareness of the spiritual reality, not limited by the restrictions of our temporal existence.

Still not there, though.
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In thinking about the Church, you must think about the union of Divine with Human. And that is the Incarnation of Christ.
You say the Church is mystical, but the Church is the Mystical Body…of Christ. Not just mystical.
 
When Jesus said to Peter and Andrew “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
 
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