table of the Lord

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"What we are seeking to restore." says San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James Pike, "is the family around the table of the Lord."

From Time Magazine Archive

I know, at my own table, whether I eat flesh or bread; how then should I be unable to know the same at the table of the Lord?

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah

How he behaved I cannot narrate: probably he delivered himself with as great simplicity at the table of the Lord Treasurer as on the wrong 190 side of Cambridge Castle gate.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

And when they do not give us the price of the work, let us resort to the table of the Lord, begging our bread from door to door.

From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Houghton, Louise Seymour

Q. At the table of the Lord whom have you placed?

From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry