'Becoming Apostolic' - CCS Book Launch Series

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An online celebratory book launch 
All are welcome: come along, hear about a new book, meet new people, and help us celebrate the launch!

Becoming Apostolic: Conversations with Older Roman Catholic SistersIn her latest publication, Dr Catherine Sexton seeks to understand how sisters make meaning and sense of their apostolic vocation in old age, and how this contributes to the evolving theology and identity of apostolic religious life for women. She interviewed and drew on the lived experience and narratives of a group of ageing sisters from five congregations.The voices and theologies of this group of women religious are at the heart of this book, as it explores how sisters make meaning of their new personal, and institutional contexts, through what appear to be new articulations of ‘being with and being for’ as the foundation of active ministry.Sisters articulated three distinct and emerging forms of ministry, through which they contend with the loss of active ministry, moving away from a task-based identity, towards one of being apostolic. These are: an emerging understanding of presence as ministry; an acceptance of the validity and necessity of ministering to each other instead of those outside their congregations, and ministry to their carers.At this celebratory launch event, Prof. Karen Kilby (CCS Director), Prof Clare Watkins (Durham and the University of Roehampton) and Sr Jo Robson (Carmelite Nuns) will be in conversation with Dr Catherine Sexton (CCS Honorary Fellow).All are welcome! Please click on Register on this page to receive Zoom details.FormatBook launches are traditionally light-hearted, celebratory moments, with a chance to mingle with new people and gather some first impressions of a book. We hope, even by Zoom, to retain the informality and social quality of a book launch. We hope you find it enjoyable - not just another academic seminar.

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