Surrendering to the Beauty of Our Unshakable Goodness

Drawing from the intentional community formed at Homeboy Industries, this retreat explores the principles that we are all unshakably good and that we belong to each other. Surrendering to this, nurtures into place, communities of cherished belonging.

Note: $45 of your retreat fee will be donated to support the mission of Homeboy Industries.

About Fr. Greg Boyle, SJ

Father Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit priest, is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the world’s largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Fr. Boyle served as pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights from 1986 to 1992, the city’s poorest parish with the highest concentration of gang activity. During the “decade of death,” which peaked at 1,000 gang-related killings in 1992, he and his parish adopted a radical approach: treat gang members as human beings. In 1988, they started what would become Homeboy Industries, which trains and employs former gang members and provides critical services to thousands each year. Fr. Boyle is the author of Tattoos on the Heart (2010), Barking to the Choir (2017), The Whole Language (2021), and Cherished Belonging (2024). He has received the California Peace Prize, been inducted into the California Hall of Fame, and was named a Champion of Change by President Obama in 2014. He received the University of Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal in 2017, and Homeboy Industries won the 2020 Hilton Humanitarian Prize. Most recently, he was awarded the 2024 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor.

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