QUIZ: when was the BEGINNING of the Church?

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When people get the answer right. It’s a quiz.
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When the people get the answer right? According to you, or according to solid Catholic doctrine and theology? I find no problem with some of the answers given so far, with regard to Catholic teachings. That’s why I asked if it was a trick question.
 
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And there are two camps, one is Pentacost, the other stretches back into the Old Testament days.
 
Think along the lines of the responses given and the replies:
  1. Do not think in a too linear fashion.
  2. It links God’s Will in a mystical context with this world.
  3. The manifestation of God’s Will for humanity in the context of time.
  4. It is in the merits of Christ’s Resurrection.
  5. The Holy Spirit is in all things good.
  6. If Pentecost was not the ‘beginning of the Church’ then this means that the Church had already begun (provable with definitive Catholic teaching).
  7. All of Creation, including that of Angels, are part of the Church.
…and other things to take into account from this thread.
 
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so you do refer to the Latin Rite Roman Catholic Church specifically? Rather then Christianity in general
 
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It’s definitive Roman Catholic (universal) teaching.
 
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I am part of the Church as a member of it. Not a trick. Just a prelude to an answer. I wanted to make people think as I guessed there may be some misconceptions floating around and thought a quiz might be a fun way of attracting people to having a go.
 
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I get the feeling this is like a trick question. Because common knowledge would dictate that Christ instituted the Church as manifested on Earth (which is what people mean when they use the word “Church”). But I suppose since Jesus has always existed as part of the trinity, and Christ is the bridegroom of the Church, he wouldn’t be a bridegroom without a bride, therefore the Church has always existed with Jesus.
 
After nearly 70 posts, I think the prelude has caused enough stir in folks’ thinking. As I asked before, what is the magic number to reach before the prelude becomes an answer? On the 13th day just before the thread closes?
 
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Is this not work? Don’t let that stop you from posting again at some point as you are along the right lines. You might even get it exactly right at some point!
 
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p123a9p1.htm

The Vatican has the last say.
171 "For it was from the side of Christ as he slept the sleep of death upon the cross that there came forth the ‘wondrous sacrament of the whole Church.’"172 As Eve was formed from the sleeping Adam’s side, so the Church was born from the pierced heart of Christ hanging dead on the cross.173

and then
"When the work which the Father gave the Son to do on earth was accomplished, the Holy Spirit was sent on the day of Pentecost in order that he might continually sanctify the Church."174 Then "the Church was openly displayed to the crowds and the spread of the Gospel among the nations, through preaching, was begun."175 As the “convocation” of all men for salvation, the Church in her very nature is missionary, sent by Christ to all the nations to make disciples of them.176
 
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I’m sorry, but i can’t do this anymore.

If all this is is going to be is dissolving into ‘Nope. I know something you don’t know,’ the I can no longer take part.

God Bless you all,
Br. Ben, CRM
 
The Baptism of Christ is a very interesting event recorded in Scripture - He has not only entered into humanity, He has fully entered into the religion of His people. Though He has authority, He does not grasp at it. There is a kind of link to the event of which I am seeking the correct responses but this is not the correct answer. 🙂
 
Yes it was. The traditional teaching is that Pentecost is the birthday of the Church. The Church is Christ’s visible instrument on earth, it’s existence started at Pentecost. That is when it started visibly functioning. We are not Protestants who believe the Church is the abstract communion of believers. The Church exists as a concrete, functioning institution. It was not functioning or visible until Pentecost, therefore, that is it’s beginning. That is why Pentecost is the birthday of the Church.
When Christ appointed Peter he said "you are the rock that I WILL (future tense) build my church.

Pentecost is the answer.
 
It doesn’t hurt to try. Pentecost was the answer that I thought most people would go for. If you have any more ideas then please do post - more the merrier! And it was nice to have a Catechism reference for interest’s sake.
 
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http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p123a9p6.htm
It’s all good. Don’t want this to turn into a whizzing match between different aspects of Church teaching. And I still have work to do.
Paragraph 6. Mary - Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church

**[963] Since the Virgin Mary’s role in the mystery of Christ and the Spirit has been treated, it is fitting now to consider her place in the mystery of the Church. "The Virgin Mary . . . is acknowledged and honored as being truly the Mother of God and of the redeemer. . . . She is ‘clearly the mother of the members of Christ’ . . . since she has by her charity joined in bringing about the birth of believers in the Church, who are members of its head."502 "Mary, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church."503

I. MARY’S MOTHERHOOD WITH REGARD TO THE CHURCH

Wholly united with her Son . . .

**[964] Mary’s role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it. “This union of the mother with the Son in the work of salvation is made manifest from the time of Christ’s virginal conception up to his death”;504 it is made manifest above all at the hour of his Passion:

Thus the Blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully persevered in her union with her Son unto the cross. There she stood, in keeping with the divine plan, enduring with her only begotten Son the intensity of his suffering, joining herself with his sacrifice in her mother’s heart, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim, born of her: to be given, by the same Christ Jesus dying on the cross, as a mother to his disciple, with these words: "Woman, behold your son."505

965 After her Son’s Ascension, Mary "aided the beginnings of the Church by her prayers."506 In her association with the apostles and several women, "we also see Mary by her prayers imploring the gift of the Spirit, who had already overshadowed her in the Annunciation."507
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