Definition of "intercommunion" [in•ter•com•mun•ion]

• Communion, relationship, or association between persons or groups. (noun)
• The practice by which members of different Christian denominations can receive Communion at one another's Eucharistic services or at a common service. (noun)

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• "– for a desire for intercommunion is one of the strong instincts of our nature, and yet it is one which, as regards all the rest of creation but our human fellow-beings, we have to unlearn from babyhood."
• "Its gravamen is that marriage is an embodied spiritual "intercommunion" established by free, complete, mutual self-gift."
• "Many people insist that this unity should be simply anticipated by requesting or demanding intercommunion before the communion of the Churches has been restored."