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

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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 willlong be remembered by it.

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At once heartrending and illuminating, THE BOOK OF MYCHAL is a delicate portrait of the seemingly invincible chaplain to the Fire Department of New York. Father Mychal was one of the first arrivals to the scene and the first casualty on September 11th at the World Trade Center. Written by New York Daily News columnist Michael Daly, this revealing biography displays the grand significance of the priest's more personal gestures, from comforting early AIDS victims and counseling young men in jail to blessing thousands of firefighters every day. He had the rare ability to transform language into a balm against the pain of living, and Daly relies on those words, culled from interviews, letters, journals, and remembrances from friends, to craft a portrait of this selfless man, who will lived his life as a testament to his philosophy that the good in life inevitably eclipses the bad.

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