Sentence examples for communion table from inspiring English sources

Gay rights supporters gathered around a communion table at the center of the hall, singing.

Many Protestant churches have reduced the altar to the status of a table, or communion table.

He believed in the "beauty of holiness" and introduced measures to decorate churches and to separate the communion table from the congregation.

Rabbi Moskowitz said the Jewish congregation covered the communion table with a Jewish tapestry and used it in services when Cantor Marcey Wagner chanted from the Torah.

Ms. Wilson, an on-again, off-again member of the choir, and her mother, Jennie Mae Robinson, 67, were arranging the communion table.

The police said the woman, Shelia W. Chaney Wilson, 43, and her mother were preparing the communion table in the chapel of Turner Monumental A.M.E.

The Reformed churches, however, resisted such use of the cross until the 20th century, when ornamental crosses on church buildings and on communion tables began to appear.

In 1550 stone altars were replaced by wooden communion tables, a very public break with the past, as it changed the look and focus of church interiors.

It's a dish rooted in both the black South and the white South, but one that unites every Southerner in the communion of the table.

Yet moderationists hold that in banishing wine from communion and dinner tables, prohibitionists and abstentionists go against the 'witness of the Bible' and the church throughout the ages and implicitly adopt a Pharisaical moralism that is at odds with the what moderationists consider the right approach to biblical ethics and the doctrines of sin and sanctification.

In particular, he created an uproar with his campaign for the use of a plain table for communion instead of the altar.