NRM Talks

The Solitary Offices, Joseph Mathews, July 8, 1970

In 1999 Jim Campbell delivered the nine talks of the New Religious Mode to the Council of the Congregations of the Ursulines of Jesus in Turin, Italy.

THE CORPORATES

Engaged life, external signs of an interior posture. Sociality through the practices of poverty, chastity and obedience.

Poverty

Detachment. No thing defines a human being

Joseph Mathews (Poverty lecture)

Chastity

To will one thing
Gene Marshall (Chastity lecture)

Obedience

Engagement
Ken Barley

“The Religious Exercises of the Corporates”, Rick Loudermilk, July 25, 1972

THE JOURNEYS

You see all that there is to see and you dare to embody that –

the intensification of all a person knows, through the journey of transparent knowing doing and being. (Jim Campbell)

In 1972 Joseph Mathews gave a talk in Chicago on “The Knowing, Doing and Being of a Religious Order”.

The Neglect of Being, George Walters (Lecture)
Unknown (Being lecture)
Living Beyond Borders – A Time of Being

Transparent Knowing

Ultimate lucidity

David Scott (Lecture)
George West (Lecture)
Gene Marshall (Lecture)

Transparent Doing

How it is I become my doing

Fred Hess (Doing lecture)
George West, Transparent Doing (Lecture)
John Epps (Lecture)
Joseph Slicker, Transparent Doing (Lecture)

Transparent Being

Sheer consciousness, raw creativity

Mathews, Joseph, Transparent Being, July 30, 1971

THE SOLITARIES

The solitaries are related to the interior states of an individual.

Dialogues are created with one’s interior community through the solitary practices of meditation, contemplation and prayer.

In 1970 the entire IMAGE: Journal of the Ecumenical Institute (Number 09) was dedicated to the Solitaries of the NRM: The Solitary Life of the Secular Religious – New Religious Mode, focus on the Solitary Office, Meditation, Contemplation and Prayer.