“This book fulfills a promise made to an exceptionally fine young man who would be gone; from this world less than six hours later.”
So begins the story of Eugene Hamilton; a young man who dreamed of becoming a priest; a young man stricken with terminal cancer as his life was just beginning; a young man who, because of his exceptional spirituality, would receive special dispensation to be ordained early, who would become a priest just two hours before he died.
This book is about the sacramental and the sacred, and how these transcendent realities become clear before human eyes in a story full of experiences familiar to all of us: high school proms and college speeches, medical tests and chemotherapy treatments, dreams denied and dreams come true.
Gene Hamilton was a son, a brother, a student, a deacon, and finally, a priest when he died in early 1997 at age twenty-five. This book is about what made Gene different — holy — and about the presence and action of God as He accomplishes His inscrutable will using the ordinary events of life.
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