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open communion

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noun

Ecclesiastical.
  1. a communion service in which members of all denominations can participate.


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To many an Anglican and High Episcopalian, "open communion" is fraught with danger.

From Time Magazine Archive

What draws congregations to City Temple is not chiefly its freedom from dogmatism or its open communion, but its high standard of preaching.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Free-will Baptists, the Christian Society, and most of the General Baptists of England admit of open communion; the other bodies decline communion with any Christians but Baptists.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

"We believe in what is called open communion rather than in what is called close communion."

From Dorothy Page by Eldridge B. Hatcher

He prayed that the house of God might be the place of open communion.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

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