All prayer is communion, not only between Christ and me but also between everybody in the Church and myself. All prayer takes us into the communion of saints.
Perhaps it would be helpful to think that when I am praying I am closely united with everybody who ever prayed and everybody now praying. I am completely caught up in this communion of saints and this great reality of the prayer of Christ.
I am not lost or submerged in it, but I am truly myself when I am praying in union with Christ and with the communion of saints.
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton in Alaska