The phrase "communion table" refers to a special table in a church where religious sacraments, like receiving bread and wine as symbols of the body and blood of Christ, are shared and celebrated during religious ceremonies. Full definition
I had just placed my open Bible on our wobbly old communion table when a racket in the main entrance stairwell interrupted. (relevantmagazine.com)
From the three - legged dining table on which St. Peter was supposed to have celebrated his first mass in Rome, to the monolithic high altar of St. Peter's Basilica, to the «convenient wooden communion table» prescribed by Archbishop William Laud, the church has wrestled with the alternatives: altar or table? (religion-online.org)
The news that some mainline Protestants have decided to recognize one another's communion table means little to those who sit in our pluralistic pews. (religion-online.org)