Tuesday, September 18, 2012


THE SISTERS OF THE SORROWFUL MOTHER

STORY TOLD WITH PICTURES

We were founded on February 16, 1883 by Mother Frances Streitel.   Mother Frances was passionate about following the holy will of God in every detail of her life.  The Lord tested her resolve in that He called her to found a new religious community that would be a transformative presence in the world, addressing the fundamental social evils that existed in the world of her time by uniting action and contemplation, by living a life of strict poverty, humility, and filial obedience—the obedience that Jesus modeled in accepting death, even death on the cross. Her journey along this road to perfection, of imitating the holiness and compassion of God, began, for her, already as a child. Her mother taught her to share with the poor, to whom her mother distributed food. As a little child, Mother Frances, known then as Amalia,  gave her desserts to the poor and went without the sweets so many of us crave!

 
 
 
Already as a child Mother Frances was taught to be compassionate to others as God is compassionate.  That very characteristic of holiness underlies the charism of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother and is an ideal to which her daughters strive.  Which ideals/values of your childhood continue to guide you along the everlasting way?


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