Tattoos on the Heart : The Power of Boundless Compassion (Hardcover)

from knittingmomof3

From My Blog... Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle is a deeply moving, heartwarming series of essays from some of the most memorable times of Father Boyle's career. Father Boyle has been a Jesuit Priest for 25 years working with many sections of the population that others deem frightening at b...

from Avolyn

There are no words to describe how much I love this book. I wish that everyone could read it and see what it truly means to align yourself with others and be one with them, more than simply helping someone, the power of identifying yourself as the same. I'm speechless.

from PamelaBarrett

Fr. Greg Boyle tells us in the preface that this is not a memoir and there is no narrative chronology, and it is not a "how to deal with gangs" book. Then what we are left with are relationships that matter to him with the people he has walked side by side with at the Delores Mission in Boyle Hei...

from oldman

A short book about a man's journey to the worset of the worst section of LA and learn compassion and love for those who have never had compassion of love given to them. The man is Fr.Gregory Boyle S.J. who spent 20 years ministering and being a part of the the community of two projects in LA. An ...

from LeslieHurd

Fr. Boyle worked and lived in the barrios of East Los Angeles and spent his life working with gang members. While he states at the beginning that his book isn't a "how to" book to solve the gang problem, his life of compassion illustrates that the only way to reach lives destroyed by shame, pover...