"Making this moment the best we can is the way life goes best, Isay! We've got to share with our whole body as well as our soul when wedo something, and that makes the difference between being alive or deadto someth ing. They are all moments of beauty."

Sister Mary Joel Kolmer was one of five sisters martyred in Liberia in 1992.

Age: 58
Born: March 1, 1934
Date of Religious Profession: July 1, 1957
Ministry:- 25 years in the United States as an elementary school teacher; 10years in Liberia 1982-1992 as a teacher and aspirant director
Killed: October 20, 1992 on the road between Gardnersville and Barnersville, Liberia, West Africa