Communion, like other practices of our faith, can become reduced to an act or religious practice. On the night in which Jesus was betrayed (Mark 14), He reclined with his disciples at a table. The table was not in a temple or a church. The table was in a common room with friends enjoying a common Passover meal. Jesus’ purpose of the communion table then and now was designed and destined to be a place where food and stories are passed from one person to another and one generation to another, where each of person learns who they are, where they come from, who they are called to be, to whom they belong, and to what they are called to do.
