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Summary: Enormously blessed!!
Review: An extraordinary book masterfully written by Fr Benedict Groeschel. A book that touched my very soul. A book that every human being, including every priest, would do well to read. God is so good to have given us Fr Eugene Hamilton who taught us through Fr Benedict Groeschel how to carry our cross with Jesus. I can only pray to do as well. And, Fr Eugene's family? Incredible faith. What an example for all of us. Thank you God for the blessings and thank you Fr Benedict for this wonderful work. By the way, I have purchased several books that are now circulating with priests and lay people. I plan to keep them moving.
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Summary: Enormously blessed!!
Review: An extraordinary book masterfully written by Fr Benedict Groeschel. A book that touched my very soul. A book that every human being, including every priest, would do well to read. God is so good to have given us Fr Eugene Hamilton who taught us through Fr Benedict Groeschel how to carry our cross with Jesus. I can only pray to do as well. And, Fr Eugene's family? Incredible faith. What an example for all of us. Thank you God for the blessings and thank you Fr Benedict for this wonderful work. By the way, I have purchased several books that are now circulating with priests and lay people. I plan to keep them moving.
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Summary: Father Hamilton, pray for us!
Review: Eugene Hamilton's insight into the nature of the priesthood shows that his personal suffering produced great wisdom in a very young man. A page turner, in spite of knowing the ending. Put this book in the hands of any young man considering the priesthood. A great gift for a seminarian. A powerful story, a blessing.
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Summary: Do you want to grow in faith? Read this.
Review: Eugene Hamilton's life was a life of faith. To me, a college student, it was a life of example. In a society that is seeing morals go into extinction, his life of adoration to God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit was a refreshing reminder that our life should be of service to God. To the seminarian, I can only imagine this book is a book of hope. Eugene proves that becoming a priest is not giving up a fulfilling life. His quest for the priesthood not only filled his life with grace, it allowed us, the reader, to taste how fulfilling a life of service to God can be. Thank you Eugene for your life. Thank you Fr. Groeschel for putting into words this powerful testimony.
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Summary: A must for seminarians!
Review: God bless Fr. Eugene Hamilton! I, being a seminarian, could not have found a better time to read the life of this saintly young man than now while I'm undergoing my Pastoral Year. In two years, I hope to be ordained a Priest for service in Miami, Florida. I happen to remember Gene vaguely as we grew up in our hometown Haverstraw, NY. I remember him as a young little boy serving mass at St. Peter's. I played and sang the guitar Mass at the parish.The book was very inspiring to me as a future priest. Gene's love for the faith and the Church inspired and rekindled my somewhat dry faith (a strange phenomena that happens to us seminarians as we undergo formation). Gene's spiritual life, commitment to celibacy, love for the liturgy, friendships, all helped to mold my own life and viewpoints. I highly recommend this book to all of us seminarians who need a spark, a ray of hope during those bleak dark nights that we seminarians undergo. Groeschel's book about Fr. Gene inspires us to continue on our call and strive for holiness in the priesthood. I couldn't help but cry when I read the section on how Gene died...such a holy death! I plan on visiting my hometown (my dad still lives there) and pay a visit to his grave.
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Summary: heart wrenching
Review: I felt uplifted to know that as a worshipper at Saint Patrick's I had once prayed for the healing of this young priest at Mass. I feel like in a minute way, I've participated in the story of a saintly soul and a spiritual flower. As Cardinal O'Connor once put it, being a saint meant doing THE best that you can. It is not lost on me that Fr. Hamilton was truly a gifted and happy young man who desperately lovingly wanted to do the will of Jesus by becoming a priest and offered his very self in the process. His story reminded me of St. Therese, for his life seemed to consist of doing little things with great love, including his seminarian studies day by day. How I wish I could have had him as a parish priest or a friend. God bless his memory and spread his story of abandonment to Providence.. .
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Summary: Fr. Eugene Hamilton - An Inspiratoin Forever!
Review: I just finished reading the book... WOW!!!! What an amazing accounting of Fr. Gene; I was really moved by this and INSPIRED more than I could have ever been before reading this, the words of the Holy Father sent to Fr. Gene in hopes of his recovery, "Tell him I LOVE him with my whole heart - in toto corde" that is the true priesthood, embodied in one word, 'LOVE', it couldn't possibly be described any other way - Fr. Gene chose to use Cardinal Cooke's definition - a priest is: a Servant, a Victim, a Brother, a Listener, a Friend. I am very greatful for this story and will never be able to thank my Priest enough for giving me this book.
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Summary: Fr. Eugene Hamilton - An Inspiratoin Forever!
Review: I just finished reading the book... WOW!!!! What an amazing accounting of Fr. Gene; I was really moved by this and INSPIRED more than I could have ever been before reading this, the words of the Holy Father sent to Fr. Gene in hopes of his recovery, "Tell him I LOVE him with my whole heart - in toto corde" that is the true priesthood, embodied in one word, 'LOVE', it couldn't possibly be described any other way - Fr. Gene chose to use Cardinal Cooke's definition - a priest is: a Servant, a Victim, a Brother, a Listener, a Friend. I am very greatful for this story and will never be able to thank my Priest enough for giving me this book.
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Summary: Unbelievably Inspirational
Review: It was my privilege to have Gene Hamilton as one of my best friends in college and in life. I was honored when Gene allowed me to be one of the first of his friends to know he was to begin studying to become a priest. In everything he did, Gene exemplified the priesthood, and I looked forward to the day that Gene performed his first mass. I visited Gene occasionally in the Seminary, and he was so at home and enthusiastic about his journey. As the sad news of his illness came, his enthusiasm never waned. His courage and eagerness to seek and serve the Lord was an unbelievable testimony to this young man's faith. Fr. Groeschel captures this in his book so perfectly. Gene's life and death had a profound impact on my own life. My mother suffered from cancer along with Gene, and they always asked about and prayed for each other. My mother prayed to Gene every day after his death. Gene's life inspired her own faith during her battle with cancer. Mom passed away three months ago, and there is no doubt in my mind that they are together in heaven praying for all of us who love them and continue to live in their memories. May this book serve to inspire the faith of each of us who read Gene's story.
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Summary: "Thy will be done" - in life and in death
Review: The story of Father Hamilton, as told by Father Groeschel, is not only riveting and heroic, it also clearly demonstrates that God has a vocational plan for every human being. Father Hamilton's response to God's call to the priesthood, in spite of his illness and immanent death, should encourage every reader to have the same determination and enthusiasm to live one's vocation to the fullest. Priests who read this book will be humbled that they are able to exercise their ministry as Gene wanted to do so badly. Those considering a vocation will want to emulate the heroism of this young priest. We all benefit from the heavenly ministry of Father Hamilton. Father Groeschel's description was so vivid that as I offered Mass today, an activity Gene could not perform, I knew for certain that my earthly worship and his heavenly worship were closely united. That demonstrates the power of this book!
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