Father Thomas Keating is the founder of the Centering Prayer movement, based on the retreat into the “inner room” mentioned by Jesus in Matthew 6:6, where the individual is able to meet God. From the book Manifesting God, Father Keating explores three parables—the Parable of the Great Banquet, the Parable of the Leaven, and the Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee—and their relation to contemplative prayer.