Mother Frances Streitel: "I have learned to pray again like a child"

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.  In 1879, two years after that near death experience and probably after that experience of being accused of abusing her authority, Sister Angela confides in her superior that she is at peace with herself and that she has learned again to pray as would a child.  A child’s prayer reflects the characteristics of children: simplicity, purity, straightforwardness, honesty, faith, hope, humility (totally dependent upon parents and thus on God as well). There is no conceit  or pride in a small child.  Imagine God gazing upon Sister Angela in prayer and she gazing upon God in joyous expectation of experiencing God’s love, generosity and abundance of what the goodness of God dictates--that is what a small child expects from its parents. Truly, Sister Angela teaches us how to pray!