To speak of relationships in the spiritual life is not uncontroversial. Favre and the first Jesuits lived at a time when intercession in the Christian life was being radically called into question. And surely the Reformers had a point: Catholic talk of the saints can easily slide over into the manipulative or the superstitious. Yet there must be a fundamental rightness in how Favre’s prayer is nourished by memories of human goodness. If God has called the whole creation into being, if God’s purpose is being worked out in all that God has made, then the path to God must of its very nature draw us into ever more intense communion.
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