Becoming Apostolic - Sexton, Catherine
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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, 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.…mehr

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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, 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.
Autorenporträt
Catherine Sexton, completed her Ph.D. at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge, in 2018 and is a Research Fellow at Durham University's Centre for Catholic Studies. She has been researching religious life for women for the past fifteen years. Her most recent publication is a chapter in Female Faith Practices: Qualitative Research Perspectives (Routledge, 2023).