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  • Essay / Dorothy Day: The Greatest Connection with God - 1212

    After returning from prison and returning to Washington, she turned to the church again, because she felt the need to connect to new to God. “Certainly, I felt again and again the need to go to church to kneel, to bow my head in prayer…I put myself in an atmosphere of prayer – it was an act of will” ( 85). She gradually began to realize that her mind, body and soul could be brought into harmony through the peace she gains from practicing her faith. When Dorothy decided to become a nurse and help war victims, she began to question the way of life and her thoughts began to change about religion. “I felt that it was necessary for man to worship, that he was truly himself when engaged in the act” (93). It was almost as if she had found her true self by going to