Communion

Saturday evening we celebrated Holy Communion.
From Webster's 1828 Dictionary:

COMMUNION, n. 1. Fellowship; intercourse between two persons or more; interchange of transactions, or offices; a state of giving and receiving; agreement; concord.We are naturally led to seek communion and fellowship with other.What communion hath light with darkness? 2 Cor. 6. 2. Mutual intercourse or union in religious worship, or in doctrine and discipline.The Protestant churches have no communion with the Romish church. 3. The body of Christians who have one common faith and discipline. The three grand communions into which the Christian church is divided, are those of the Greek, the Romish and the Protestant churches. 4. The act of communicating the sacrament of the Eucharist; the celebration of the Lords supper; the participation of the blessed sacrament. The fourth council of Lateran decrees that every believer shall receive the communion at least at Easter. 5. Union of professing Christians in a particular church; as, members in full communion.

EU'CHARIST, n. [Gr. a giving of thanks; well, favor.] 1. The sacrament of the Lord's supper; the solemn act or ceremony of commemorating the death of our Redeemer, in the use of bread and wine, as emblems of his flesh and blood, accompanied with approprite prayers and hymns. 2. The act of giving thanks.

SAC'RAMENT, n. [L. sacramentum, an oath, from sacer, sacred.]1. Among ancient christian writers, a mystery. [Not in use.] 2. An oath; a ceremony producing an obligation; but not used in this general sense. 3. In present usage, an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual grace; or more particularly, a solemn religious ceremony enjoined by Christ, the head of the christian church, to be observed by his followers, by which their special relation to him is created, or their obligations to him renewed and ratified. Thus baptism is called a sacrament, for by it persons are separated from the world, brought into Christ's visible church, and laid under particular obligations to obey his precepts. The eucharist or communion of the Lord's supper, is also a sacrament, for by commemorating the death and dying love of Christ, Christians avow their special relation to him, and renew their obligations to be faithful to their divine Master. When we use sacrament without any qualifying word, we mean by it, 4. The eucharist or Lord's supper.

It was a blessed evening.

Random observation: There is no better tasting wine than communion wine at communion.