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The Book of Mychal: The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge

Autor Michael Daly
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2009

The inspiring story of New York Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge

His death certificate bears the number one. As chaplain to the Fire Department of New York, Father Mychal Judge was officially the first to go. A loving priest with a gift for the gab-gregarious yet humble, a healer with the ability to wipe away a widow's tears and put a smile on a fireman's face.

And on September 11th Father Mike rushed to the fires at the World Trade Center as quickly as those who fought them, losing his own life while tirelessly ministering to New York's bravest.

"Father Mike" recounts the colorful, astonishing and at times troubled life of a priest who saw the potential for good in everybody-in the homeless person he slipped a dollar to on the street; the alcoholic he sought to coax to an AA meeting; the early victims of AIDS he embraced and comforted; the troubled young men he visited in jail; and the thousands of firefighters he blessed as they rushed to their rigs answering the call.

Here was a priest who rejoiced in the life around him and understood that even the most terrible times present us with wonders-that good always arises from the bad in the most unexpected ways.

Or as Father Mike would say, "My God is a God of surprises."

In this touching book, author Michael Daly retraces the footsteps of Father Mike as his vocation takes us inside the firehouse, inside his friary and his Church, and inside the chaos that often befalls New York.

This is the tale of a larger than life priest who, in death, became a symbol of how much we truly lost that Tuesday in September. "Father Mike" is the inspirational story of a hero priest who blessed so many lives and will long be remembered by it.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780312587444
ISBN-10: 0312587449
Pagini: 388
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Thomas Dunne Books
Locul publicării:United States

Recenzii

"A Compelling and moving human portrait... If only each of the victims of 9/11 had a Daly to tell their stories." - Library Journal."

Descriere

Daly recounts the colorful, astonishing, and, at times, troubled life of the beloved New York Fire Department chaplain who had been among the first to be pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center.

Notă biografică

Michael Daly was born in Rathcormac, Ireland in the 1950s and came to Britain to join the RAF at the age of seventeen. After a successful career in the RAF Regiment, he left as a Squadron Leader and pursued a second career as a university bursar in Durham for Teikyo University of Japan, where he works to this day. He has written fiction as a hobby for many years, but this is his first published work. In 1985, he was awarded an MBE for military service and in 2016 the Freedom of the City of London. He lives alone in Durham city.