Catherine Sexton: Becoming Apostolic

At this celebratory launch event, Prof Karen Kilby (CCS Director and Bede Professor, Durham University), Dr Clare Watkins (University of Roehampton and Durham University) and Sr Jo Robson (Carmelite Nun) were in conversation with the author Dr Catherine Sexton (Honorary Fellow, Durham University).
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.