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Such a table may be temporary, being moved into place when there is a Communion Service, but generally holds a permanent (or semi-permanent) position of some prominence in the worship space. Instead of a high altar, the sanctuary may be dominated only by a large, centralized pulpit. [8] Some bring in a Communion table only when needed. [9]
In Methodism, open communion is referred to as the open table, [1] [2] meaning that all may approach the Communion table. Open communion is the opposite of closed communion , where the sacrament is reserved for members of the particular church or others with which it is in a relationship of full communion or fellowship, or has otherwise ...
Small tabernacle for the communion of the sick. At the top is a box for the Reserved Mysteries (Reserved Sacrament), at the bottom, is a small chalice, and in the back is a tiny communion spoon with a cross on the handle (Kiev-Pecherski Lavra). The receptacle for taking communion to the sick is also called a pyx. However, it is quite different ...
In keeping with Wesleyan-Arminian theology, God's unconditional love makes the table of God's grace accessible to all, a concept referred to as open communion, though in certain Methodist connexions, the minister meets with the class meeting beforehand to examine those who wish to communicate (see Eucharistic discipline § Methodist practice).
Wooden and iron altar rails in St Pancras Church, Ipswich. The altar rail (also known as a communion rail or chancel rail) is a low barrier, sometimes ornate and usually made of stone, wood or metal in some combination, delimiting the chancel or the sanctuary and altar in a church, [1] [2] from the nave and other parts that contain the congregation.
This image from the frontispiece of a book on the subject depicts a Dutch Reformed service of the Lord's Supper. [1]In Reformed theology, the Lord's Supper or Eucharist is a sacrament that spiritually nourishes Christians and strengthens their union with Christ.
St John Altarpiece, c. 1479, oil on oak panel, 173.6 × 173.7 cm (central panel), 176 × 78.9 cm (each wing), Memlingmuseum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges. The St John Altarpiece (sometimes the Triptych of the two Saints John or the Triptych of St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist) is a large oil-on-oak hinged-triptych altarpiece completed around 1479 by the Early Netherlandish master ...
The Eastern Orthodox Church, comprising 14 to 16 autocephalous Orthodox hierarchical churches, is even more strictly a closed-communion Church. Thus, a member of the Russian Orthodox Church attending the Divine Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Church will be allowed to receive communion and vice versa but, although Protestants, non-Trinitarian Christians, or Catholics may otherwise fully ...