(I should note that Father Baker did not escape the Jesuits either, studying Latin and Greek with the Buffalo Jesuits in the evening in preparation for seminary.) Father Baker was an exceptional parish priest (the rococo basilica perhaps being a giveaway). America sent Alfred Barrett, S.J., to visit Father Baker in 1936, and the report gives us a magnificent look into the world he had built. The work of Father Baker reminds us that the Lord lives through time and space—through the sacramental, the tangible and the relational. Above all else, Father Baker taught me to keep counting angels—those I love, and those I have yet to learn to love.