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Founder of Homeboy Industries and best-selling spiritual writer, Greg Boyle, S.J., joins James Martin S.J. on the season finale of “The Spiritual Life” podcast. They talk about who inspired Greg to join the Jesuits, where he goes for spiritual direction each morning, bringing a mystical lens to reading the Bible, and how the community at Homeboy, the world’s leading gang intervention rehabilitation program, has made God’s love real to him.
Timecodes:
0:00 Greg Boyle doesn’t know a bad person
5:20 How Homeboy ministries began
14:17 How joy, humor and fearlessness attracted Fr. Greg to the Jesuits
20:20 Why you need a mystical filter to know the God of Love
24:45 You want to see Jesus so you can be Jesus to others
35:55 Hate is a symptom of bad health, not a bad person
47:00 Dealing with criticism and praise
50:31 Greg’s morning spiritual practice
54:45 Audience Question: How do we know for sure if God forgives us?
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