The panels of the communion rail, set between wooden columns decorated with fruit, flowers and ribbons, are topped by a long balustrade, also decorated with acanthus leaf.
A dancer and choreographer (Kei Takei), a sculptor (Alain Kirili) and a composer (Somei Satoh) set out on a spiritual journey in "Time of Communion," the collaborative work they presented on Saturday night at the Kitchen.
At the eastern end, the communion table is set into a small apse with its semi-dome adorned with gold mosaic tiles that were added in 1960.
He said he hoped the Church of England would "step back from the path" it had set itself on "so the Church of Uganda will be able to maintain communion with our own Mother Church".
"It helps us to set our sights on the ultimate goal of all ecumenical activity: the restoration of full ecclesial communion," he added.
There was invocation of St Catherine of Siena in the bishop of London's address, with its striking opening quotation: "Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire" (the martyr, it turns out, was plagued by eating disorders and kept herself alive by eating communion wafers).
She received First Holy Communion at its altar, helped set up the thrift shop in its basement.
Ms. Henriquez set up a baptism, communion and confirmation for Edwin and then the wedding.
Christian communions and theologians differ from one another in their interpretations of Mary principally on the basis of where they set the terminal point for such development and expansion that is, where they maintain that the legitimate development of doctrine may be said to have ended.
The Episcopal Church shed members and set off an uproar in the international Anglican Communion to which it belongs by consecrating its first openly gay bishop in 2003.
