Tattoos on the Coronary heart: The Energy of Boundless Compassion

“Destined to change into a basic of each city reportage and up to date spirituality” (Los Angeles Instances)—Tattoos on the Coronary heart is a sequence of parables about kinship and redemption from pastor, activist, and famend speaker, Father Gregory Boyle.

For twenty years, Father Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program situated within the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles—often known as the gang capital of the world. In Tattoos on the Coronary heart, he has distilled his expertise working within the ghetto into a panoramic sequence of parables impressed by religion.

From big, tattooed Cesar, buying at JC Penney recent out of jail, you discover ways to really feel worthy of God’s love. From ten-year-old Pipi you study the significance of being recognized and acknowledged. From Lulu you come to know the sort of persistence essential to rescue somebody from the darkish—as Father Boyle phrases it, we will solely shine a flashlight on a lightweight swap in a darkened room.

It is a motivating take a look at the right way to keep devoted regardless of failure, the right way to meet the world with a loving coronary heart, and the right way to conquer disgrace with boundless, restorative love.