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. Regarding the Marian Institute and its future, Sister Angela tells her superiors that her prayers and the prayers of the Sisters with whom she ministered at St. Elizabeth’s Home were that the will of God, not their own, be done. The priest involved in assigning the administrative position of the Marian Institute to another person deeply regretted his action and could neither eat nor sleep, he was so upset over what he had done. He therefore reverse his decision. Sister Angela’s response to her superior was: “Only the express command on your part, however, can let me again take up a matter which has been made so bitter for me.” She herself says: “In spite of insomnia and lack of appetite, I am, God be praised, well and in good spirits. Never before have I felt as I do this time the power of sufferings borne for the love of God” (Walk in Love, p. 27). St. Paul tells us that “…hardship develops perseverance, and perseverance develops a tested character, something that gives us hope….” (Romans 5: 4-5). No doubt this is what Sister Angela was experiencing! In what ways have you experienced the truth of St. Paul’s comment about hardship?
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