Dom and Bettinelli’s daughter Isabella was baptized yesterday. Both of them have thoughts – Dom here and Melanie here:

He talked about the Trinity as a family. God is a loving family. And he told the story of a boy carrying his brother: "He ain;t heavy, Father; he’s my brother." Thinking about Isabella, not too heavy in my arms, but still an unfamiliar weight. Thinking about the vocation of parenthood, the weight of responsibility. Christ calls us to pick up our cross and follow him. If he calls me to be a wife and mother then I suppose Isabella is my cross, in a way. If so, then he has lived up to his promise: this burden is very light. This yoke is easy to bear. What a joy to have this great responsibility, even if sometimes quite frightening to think of how much rides on how I act, what I say, to form this little immortal soul. How great a relief that we received the final blessings for the parents, to know that all we have to do is say yes and do our best, the rest we can trust to more capable hands.