Mother Frances Streitel: Faced with life's bitter moments

Amalia Frances Rose Streitel aka Mother Frances Streitel, Foundress of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, and, as a Maria Stern Franciscan, known as Sister Angela.  Yesterday we looked more deeply at the situation prior to the reversal of the decision to hire another person rather than Sister Angela to the administrative position at the Marian Institute in Wuerzburg.  She was suspected of being “used as a plaything” and of “loving to gossip,” neither of which are complementary to say the least. She tells us that she learnt what it meant to stand “beneath the cross with a bleeding heart” (Walk in Love, p. 29). She says that “her whole endeavor was bent on banishing from my heart every trace of bitterness that sought to lodge there, on praying very zealously and drawing closer than ever to the Tabernacle….” Walk in Love,  p. 29). What do you do when you are crushed by false accusations, are misunderstood, mistreated, abused and abandoned to stand “beneath the cross with a bleeding heart”?