Becoming Apostolic: Conversations with Older Roman Catholic Sisters

This book explores the experience and understanding of Roman Catholic sisters of their vocation to the apostolic form of religious life as they age. Based on interviews with twelve religious women from five English foundations, it draws on the practice of Lectio Divina to explore how these women describe their call to service and activity, at a time in life when these might be curtailed by physical diminishment and increasingly reduced social interaction and influence.

As the very institutions of religious life are themselves under threat, the book identifies new emerging forms of ministry through presence, to each other and to their carers.

The book is of interest not only to religious - whether in active or monastic communities, but also to students of practice-engaged and other forms of theology.

Dr Catherine Sexton is Assistant Professor (Research) at the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University.

Becoming Apostolic: Conversations with Older Roman Catholic Sisters by Catherine Sexton.
Publisher: Brill.
ISBN-10 : 9004696253
ISBN-13 : 978-9004696259