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THE COMMUNION TABLE

The Communion Table in the Reformed tradition is a table and not an altar. Here is celebrated the Holy Communion, or as we prefer to call it the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. In form it resembles a plain trestle table, such as that on which, undoubtedly, the Lord instituted the Supper. Around the sides and across the front are carved medallions. On the sides there are the Grapes and the Wheat Sheaf which in Church symbolism have represented the Lord's Supper for many centuries. Across the front are carvings again representing the diversity fo our Canadian Presbyterian family; the Phoenix of Hungary, the Rose of England, the Lion of Holland, the Thistle of Scotland, Shamrock of Ireland, and in the centre a maple leaf backed by St. Andrew's Cross indicating that our Canadian Presbyterian Church is a daughter Church of the Church of Scotland.


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