Communion (the Lord's Supper)

 

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On the first Sunday of each month, we celebrate Communion, also called the Lord's Supper. It is one of the church's two sacraments (the other is baptism): sacred acts in which ordinary things become signs of God's love.

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In Communion, we share bread and juice. They are visible signs of God's grace, the free and unearned love God gives us through Jesus Christ, who gave his life on the cross.

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As Presbyterians, we believe this meal is more than a way of remembering something that happened long ago. We also don't believe the bread and juice physically become Christ's body and blood. Instead, Christ is truly present with us by the Holy Spirit. The meal is a "sign and seal" of God's covenant of grace, God's lasting promise to love and claim us as God's own.

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Everyone is welcome to take part. You don't need to be a member of this church, or of any church. Whether your faith is strong, uncertain, or just beginning, this table can be a place where it is strengthened or where you meet God for the first time.

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No one is beyond the reach of God's love. That's why no one is turned away from this table of God's radical grace and hospitality. We open it to all in the hope that everyone will "taste and see that the Lord is good" (Psalm 34:8). We also hope that, like Jesus' first disciples, we will all recognize the risen Christ among us in the breaking of the bread (Luke 24:30–35).