Bless Me Father is the extraordinary story of a man growing up during a time when a nation raises itself in a changing world. It is a story about a time, almost more than a person; about a people but also very much about one man. Bless Me Father recounts the patterns of a life that while familiar in our time have their own individual moments birthed from a single soul. There is childhood and school, war and love, parenting and profession. And each of us puts our own imprimatur on this course we call life, producing a unique legacy of hope and purpose. In Bless Me Father, Gerard Rose has told this story in a powerful way, that evokes the feelings and thoughts about our own lives, and makes them ever more real.