My daughter made her first communion this weekend and fulfilling an ambition she’s had since she was three, she can now get snack at the end of the service.

She is my daughter and by definition the most beautiful creature I’ve ever known.

I’m a tolerant dissenter from her Catholic experience but I wont stand in the way of my wife’s love or community and ritual in her day to day lifeexperience.

I will also gladly take a day to celebrate my daughter’s capacity for good and the hope I feel when I look in her eyes.