THE VOICE

This book offers an insight into the life of an American missionary, Sr. Dorothy Kazel, OSU, as she matured from her novitiate days to her martyrdom with three other Catholic missionaries on December 2, 1980 in El Salvador. Sister Dorothys letters, selected for this volume, as well as the essays written by those who knew her well, present a Dorothy who wanted only to serve the poor. She grew into this role through three stages of spirituality of growth from early religious practices to total self-abnegation in death. Sister Dorothys life is a model of the true Christian calling. She was joyful, funny, and down-to-earth. At times she was a blend of the irreverent and the holy. She was exactly what she wanted her epitaph to read after she found the words in the writings of St. Augustine