February Book Read

Join us for a book read with group discussions on Fr Greg Boyle's new book:
Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times.

Choose a meeting day/time/location that fits your schedule:

· Thursday, Feb. 6, 12 noon on Zoom 
· Thursday, Feb. 6, 7:00 pm on Zoom
· Monday, Feb. 10, 11:00 am in person (Ignatius House)
· Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7:00 pm on Zoom
 

About the book: Cherished Belonging
Fr. Boyle has transformed tens of thousands of lives through his work in the past 30 years as the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang-intervention program in the world. The program runs on two unwavering principles: 

• We are all unshakably good (no exceptions) 
• We belong to each other (no exceptions

In Cherished Belonging : The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times, Fr. Boyle calls back to Christianity’s origins as a subversive spiritual movement of equality, emancipation, and peace. 

Early Christianity was a way of life—not a set of beliefs. Boyle’s vision of community is a space for people to join together and heal one another in a new collective living, a world dedicated to kindness as a constant and radical act of defiance. As one homie, Marcus, told a classroom filled with inner-city teenagers, “If love was a place, it would be Homeboy Industries.”
 
Cherished Belonging invites us to nurture the connections that are all around us and live with radical kindness. Boyle believes that “the answer to every question is, indeed, compassion.” Through colorful and profound stories brimming with wisdom, humor, and inspiration, we understand that love is the light inside everything.

About Fr. Greg Boyle
Fr. Greg Boyle is an American Jesuit priest and the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and reentry program in the world. He received The Presidential Medal of Honor in May 2024. He has received the California Peace Prize and been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2014, the White House named Boyle a Champion of Change. He received the University of Notre Dame’s 2017 Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American Catholics. He is the acclaimed author of "Tattoos on the Heart" and "Barking to the Choir is his second book, and he will be donating all net proceeds to Homeboy Industries.

The book is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Shop Homeboy or your favorite bookseller.

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