Father Gregory Boyle is a Jesuit priest who founded Homeboy Industries.  His is the largest gang-intervention and rehabilitation program in the world.  Spend an hour with him and you will understand why.  If I can sum it up in one word, it is RESPECT.  He remnids us that “none of us are well until we are all well.”  “We imagine a circle of compassion and all of us are inside that circle.”  He teaches us that when you notice people “walking through our doors barricaded behind walls of shame and disgrace” “you discover that only tenderness can scale these walls.”  He teaches us to see “the whole person,  Once you see wholeness people inhabit wholeness.”  And “once you extend the tender glance people want to BE the tener glance.”  His “homies always say ‘we are used to being watched but we aren’t used to being seen.  Once you see me I know what I look like.”  And we are encouraged that “all you are asked to do is what you CAN.”  Inspired does not begin to describe my attitude after our time together.  We hope you will join us...