Father Thomas Keating tells the story of the wedding feast at Cana in Galilee in the Gospel of John. Here, the ordinary is juxtaposed with the extraordinary, for it is at this feast that Jesus performs his first miracle, turning water into wine and thus revealing his divinity to the people.
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.
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 explains the principles of contemplative prayer—prayer as relationship, prayer in secret, and the rewards of prayer in secret.
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 explains the process of divine therapy and the process of purification in contemplative prayer.
For many years, congregations have been inspired, challenged, and charmed by the homilies given by the monks who live at St. Benedict’s Monastery—The Magic Monastery—in Snowmass, Colorado. This collection of homilies captures the vitality, wit, and spiritual wisdom of Father William Meninger as he explores the scriptures through the important feast days of the Christian calendar.
Father Thomas Keating, founder of the Centering Prayer movement, draws from his life’s devotion as a Trappist monk and abbot to provide a sacramental perspective on feasts such as The Immaculate Conception, The Annunciation, Christmas, Epiphany, Ash Wednesday, Passion Sunday, Good Friday, The Paschal Vigil, Easter, Pentecost, The Feast of Saint Benedict, Thanksgiving Day, and other special occasions.
For many years, congregations have been inspired, challenged, and charmed by the homilies given by the monks who live at St. Benedict’s Monastery—The Magic Monastery—in Snowmass, Colorado. This collection of homilies captures the vitality, wit, and spiritual wisdom of Father Theophane Boyd as he explores the scriptures through the important feast days of the Christian calendar.
For many years, congregations have been inspired, challenged, and charmed by the homilies given by the monks who live at St. Benedict’s Monastery—The Magic Monastery—in Snowmass, Colorado. This collection of homilies captures the vitality, wit, and spiritual wisdom of Abbot Joseph Boyle as he explores the scriptures through the important feast days of the Christian calendar.
Father Thomas Keating explores the tragedy of September 11 from the perspective of Christ-consciousness and its continuing emergence in the world. Even as he describes the attacks of that day as the culmination of all of the last century’s growing violence and disregard for innocent life, Father Keating shows us how to recognize the resultant suffering as an expression of the agony of Christ on the cross that is extended to all humanity.
For a quarter of a century, Trappist monk Fr. Thomas Keating contributed articles on centering prayer—the contemporary manifestation of the ancient Christian contemplative tradition—to the newsletter of Contemplative Outreach, the organization that he helped establish to promote this tradition.
The Thomas Keating Reader gathers for the first time thirty of those articles (some never published elsewhere) to offer a valuable overview of some of the main strands of Fr. Thomas’ thinking and practice on centering prayer, lectio divina, and interreligious dialogue. Rich with insight and humanity, The Thomas Keating Reader offers a broad introduction to the concepts that have animated Contemplative Outreach and reveals the gifts and challenges of the practice of the spiritual life.
