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Sep 12, 2024 | 
catholicmom.com | AnnAliese Harry
Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel. Today's Gospel: Luke 6:27-38Today’s Gospel readings actually have two options – one for the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary, and the other with today’s reflection. In sitting with both Gospels, I realized that Mary’s canticle is precisely a great reminder for the Gospel reading today. In today’s Gospel, we are instructed to love as Christ, even those who have wronged us and those who have hurt us.
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May 2, 2024 | 
catholicmom.com | AnnAliese Harry
Military wife Anni Harry ponders the adventure of creating a new home with each move, but strives to keep in mind where her true home is. There is a saying among military families: “Home is where the military sends you.” Our civilian counterparts know the saying, “Home is where the heart is.” It’s a meaningful sentiment—our home resides where we have loved ones waiting for us.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
catholicmom.com | AnnAliese Harry
Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel. Today's Gospel: John 6:30-35Several years back, I saw an image of five batteries, decreasing in charge. The first battery, fully charged, was labeled Sunday Mass; every day during the week between Sundays, the battery would decrease a little in its power, until recharged the following Sunday.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
catholicmom.com | AnnAliese Harry
Even in dark days, Anni Harry reminds us to hold onto the hope that God's ways are bigger than ours and His plans are more than we could ever imagine. Last month, I explored what Lent looks like when life feels as though it is a perpetual Lent, extending past the forty days leading up to Easter. We journey through Lent, sometimes the liturgical season, and other times through an extended season of dreariness.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
catholicmom.com | AnnAliese Harry
Anni Harry ponders the challenge of making Lenten sacrifices for moms who are already in a season of suffering. This year for Lent I joined my 11-year-old in giving up soda. That was all I could commit to doing for these forty days of Lent. It has felt as though my family has been living Lent since early December of this past year.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
catholicmom.com | AnnAliese Harry
Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel. Today's Gospel: Mark 1:21-28Teaching . . . Listening . . . Learning . . . In today’s Gospel reading, most find ourselves drawn to the exorcism performed by Jesus of Nazareth. We are reminded of the holy name of God, recalling to mind that every knee shall bend at the name of Jesus (Philippians 2:10). Yet, there is more to the Gospel than this demonstration of the power of Christ.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
catholicmom.com | AnnAliese Harry
AnnAliese Harry ponders how making time for God has helped her prioritize her time in relation to her vocation as mother. Time is something of which we never seem to have enough. The months, weeks, days, and hours seem to slip by with frightening speed, and too often we have the tendency to try to rush to fit “everything” into an already-packed schedule. Not too long ago, I declined an activity after some period of reflection and discernment.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
catholicmom.com | AnnAliese Harry
Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel. Today's Gospel: Luke 6:12-19When I hear today’s Gospel, I think how I would have loved to have been able to observe Jesus in prayer and have a play-by-play of the conversation between Jesus and the Father. Not because I am nosy, but rather, to see what spurred the Savior to action. All of us are called to enter into dialogue with God.
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Aug 20, 2023 | 
catholicmom.com | AnnAliese Harry
Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel. Today's Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28All around us today, we are constantly fed lies that foster and feed insecurity, anxiety, and restlessness. We don’t feel worthy, and self-help is one of the leading genres of books. Similarly, the woman in today’s Gospel does not feel worthy. Enough so that she likens herself to a dog, requesting the scraps from its master’s table.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
catholicmom.com | AnnAliese Harry
Anni Harry ponders how the way we treat others directly trickles down to even the youngest on the playground. School is only a couple weeks away from starting for my kiddos. Recently, I was reflecting on some mean-girl antics I observed in a class of first graders, and watching little girls navigate the early nuances of friends who place conditions, rather than boundaries, on friendships.
