Father Greg Boyle, SJ
Father Greg Boyle, SJ, is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. Father Greg started Homeboy Industries nearly 20 years ago, which has served members of more than half the gangs in Los Angeles. Father Greg is the author of the best-selling books: Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, the recent publication: Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship, and his latest publication Forgive Everyone Everything.
Father Greg received the California Peace Prize and has been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2014, the White House named Father Greg a Champion of Change. He received the 2016 Humanitarian of the Year Award from the James Beard Foundation, the national-culinary arts organisation.
Pope Francis has called for us in this era of change to become ‘field hospitals’ for the broken and bleeding – places of welcome, encounter, accompaniment and hope. Father Greg’s ministry with Homeboy Industries and his ongoing advocacy for those on the margins is a prime example of how a community can respond courageously to the needs in their local neighbourhood.
This will be no ordinary event, it will be an encounter with a Church on the streets—on the margins—a field hospital.
DON’T MISS OUT & REGISTER TODAY!
BRISBANE
3 – 5 OCTOBER
- Secondary Student Leadership
- School Executive Leadership Teams
- Parish Councils & Parish Ministries
“My job isn’t to fix or rescue or to save. It’s to accompany, see people, listen to them.”
– Greg Boyle, SJ
*For ticket orders over 25 per event, please contact [email protected] for an invoice.
Thursday 3 October 2024
Boundless Compassion: A Mission to Serve
Secondary Students Leadership Festival
St Laurence’s College, South Brisbane
9:30am – 4:00pm
Friday 4 October 2024
Courageous Encounter
School Executive Leadership Teams
Villanova College, Coorparoo, Brisbane
9:30am – 4:00pm
Saturday 5 October 2024
Instruments of Love
Parish Councils & Parish Ministries
St Laurence’s College, South Brisbane
10:00am – 4:00pm
MELBOURNE
8 – 10 OCTOBER
- Secondary Student Leadership
- School Executive Leadership Teams
- Evening with Father Greg Boyle, SJ
“You are exactly what God had in mind when God made you.”
– Greg Boyle, SJ
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Tuesday 8 October 2024
Boundless Compassion: A Mission to Serve
Secondary Students Leadership Festival
Xavier College, Kew, Melbourne
9:30am – 4:00pm
Wednesday 9 October 2024
Courageous Encounter
Secondary Students Leadership Festival
Xavier College, Kew, Melbourne
9:30am – 4:00pm
Thursday 10 October 2024
On the Margins
An Evening with Father Greg Boyle, SJ
Two Sessions 5:00 pm OR 7:30 pm
Xavier College, Kew, Melbourne
5:00pm and 7:30pm
SYDNEY/ BAULKHAM HILLS
12 – 14 OCTOBER
- National event for people involved in pastoral ministry , chaplaincy, hospital/aged care, prison ministry
- Secondary Student Leadership
“There is no ‘them’ and ‘us’. There is only us.”
– Greg Boyle, SJ
*For ticket orders over 25 per event, please contact [email protected] for an invoice.
Saturday 12 October &
Sunday 13 October 2024
Radical Kinship
Weekend National Conference (Two Day Event)
Catholic Social Services, Prison Ministry,
Aged Care/Hospital Chaplaincy,
Pastoral Associates, Pastoral Workers
St Joseph’s Centre, Baulkham Hills, Sydney
9:30am – 4:00pm
Monday 14 October 2024
Boundless Compassion: A Mission to Serve
Secondary Students Leadership Festival
St Joseph’s Centre, Baulkham Hills, Sydney
9:30am – 4:00pm
WOLLONGONG
16 – 17 OCTOBER
- National schools ministry conference for APREs, RECs, Leaders of Mission, Social Justice Coordinators, Chaplains, Youth Ministers, Pastoral Coordinator
“Showing up in the lives of young people is everything.”
– Greg Boyle, SJ
*For ticket orders over 25 per event, please contact [email protected] for an invoice.
Wednesday 16 October &
Thursday 17 October 2024
Hope Has An Address (at your school!)
National Event (Two Day Event)
APREs, RECs, Leaders of Mission, Chaplains,
Youth Ministers, Social Justice Coordinators
The Fraternity Club, Fairy Meadow, Wollongong
9:30am – 4:00pm
“Compassion is not a relationship between the wounded and the healer: it’s a covenant between equals”.
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“If you are a Catholic School educator, read Father Greg Boyle’s books! He is thought provoking, challenging and affirming. Father Greg is an educator with ‘the smell of the sheep’ on him. He ministers to those most at risk and translates the Gospel into a language that makes sense to those struggling with life. At a time when Catholic schools run the risk of becoming the preserve of those who do not wish to engage with the poor, Father Greg reminds us of the reasons why our schools exist. I am looking forward to encouraging the young people in my school as well as staff and the leadership team to take up the opportunity to engage with Father Greg in his ‘Tattoos on the Heart’ Australian tour in October 2024. Not to be missed.”
Dan McMahon
Principal
Shalom College, Bundaberg, QLD
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“Father Greg Boyle has shown the way to a contemporary understanding of the Gospels, a Good News in 2023 and beyond. The way he teaches strength through compassion is a lens needed in what it means to demonstrate Catholic leadership. The keynote he gave at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress was captivating. His story of gang and street culture demonstrates integrity at its finest and the high stakes work he has given his life to. To have Father Greg in Australia is a significant opportunity to refresh what Catholic Leadership means in our schools and organisations. I can’t wait.”
Matt Turner
Team Leader – Mission Integration and Formation
Catholic Life, Education and Mission Team – Diocese of Wollongong
“I am a mission on this earth; that is the reason why I am here in this world. We have to regard ourselves as sealed, even branded, by this mission of bringing light, blessing, enlivening, raising up, healing and freeing. All around us we begin to see nurses with soul, teachers with soul, politicians with soul, people who have chosen deep down to be with others and for others. But once we separate our work from our private lives, everything turns grey and we will always be seeking recognition or asserting our needs. We stop being a people. If we are to share our lives with others and generously give of ourselves, we also have to realise that every person is worthy of our giving.”
Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis #273
We gratefully acknowledge:
St Laurence’s College
South Brisbane
Villanova College
Coorparoo, Brisbane
Xavier College
Kew, Melbourne