open communion

noun

, Ecclesiastical.

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

Example Sentences

Pope Francis hosted a headline-grabbing Synod on the Family at the Vatican that publicly pitted Catholic conservatives against his reformist allies who want to open Communion to divorced and remarried Catholics as well as create more space for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Catholics and their families.

From Washington Post

Freewill Baptists, a sect of Baptists who are Arminian in doctrine, and practice open communion.

From Project Gutenberg

In any case, Johnson is not likely to get turned away from many altar rails in Washington, traditionally an Episcopal diocese that favors open Communion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pike has delighted some and scandalized others by allowing a policy of open communion in his diocese, and by permitting the use of Grace Cathedral for a modern art exhibit, a jazz mass, and the premiere of Duke Ellington's In the Beginning, God.

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