Communion

- n1. an exchange of thoughts, emotions, etc 2. possession or sharing in common; participation 3. (followed by: by, with) strong emotional or spiritual feelings (for): communion with nature 4. a religious group or denomination having a common body of beliefs, doctrines, and practices 5. the spiritual union held by Christians to exist between individual Christians and Christ, their Church, or their fellow Christians [from Latin commūniō, general participation, from commūnis, common] (From World English Dictionary, accessed at Dictionary.com) We eat the body (of the bread) together as the body (of believers) because of, and to so remember, Christ's body (broken for us). Communion.