Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love
One Day Retreat
Hosted by
Stillpoint: The Center for Christian Spirituality
in partnership with
Fuller Center for Spiritual Formation
June 27th, 2026
9-4pm
Church of Our Savior
535 West Roses Road
San Gabriel CA 91775
“We are all unshakably good - no exceptions. We belong to each other - with no exceptions.”
We are honored to welcome Father Gregory Boyle of Homeboy Industries. Drawing from his work and his newest book Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times, he will invite us into a deeper practice of kinship, healing, and the sacred truth that we belong to one another. He reminds us that people change when they are cherished, and that cherishing is love with its sleeves rolled up.
This one day retreat will help nurture the connections that are all around us and invite us to live with love and kindness. Fr Greg also teaches that we are called to the ministry of compassion. We’re called to share in one another’s suffering and help carry one another’s burdens. He says that “the answer to every question is, indeed, compassion.” He shares that compassion is a shift in our own perception, and doesn’t just involve intervention, but seeing people clearly.
Fr Greg will be bringing along two Homeboys from Homeboy Industries who will share their own personal stories. There will also be a question and reflection time for attendees to respond to all that they have been invited to.
RETREAT SCHEDULE
9am
Welcome and Centering Prayer
10am - 12pm
Father Greg Boyle + Homeboys
12pm - 1pm
Lunch
1pm - 4pm
Stillpoint-led Contemplative Practice Sessions
COST
$149
*Lunch is included and will be catered by Homegirl Catering. The menu will include a delicious variety of sandwiches, salad, and chips & salsa. There are regular, vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options. Please select your preference when registering.
Registration Cancellation Policy
Cancellations received by June 13, 2026, will receive a full refund, less any processing fees. Because the organization incurs expenses in advance for the retreat, refunds cannot be issued after June 13, 2026. If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your registration to another participant by June 24, 2026. If the retreat is canceled by the organization, a full refund will be provided.
Father Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit priest, is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world. Born and raised in Los Angeles and Jesuit priest, from 1986 to 1992 Fr. Boyle served as pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights. Dolores Mission was the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles that also had the highest concentration of gang activity in the city. Fr. Boyle witnessed the devastating impact of gang violence on his community during the so-called “decade of death” that began in the late 1980s and peaked at 1,000 gang-related killings in 1992. In the face of law enforcement tactics and criminal justice policies of suppression and mass incarceration as the means to end gang violence, he and parish and community members adopted what was a radical approach at the time: treat gang members as human beings.
In 1988 they started what would eventually become Homeboy Industries, which employs and trains former gang members in a range of social enterprises, as well as provides critical services to thousands of individuals who walk through its doors every year seeking a better life. Fr. Boyle is the author of the 2010 New York Times-bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. Followed by Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship (2017) and The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness (2021). His most recent work is Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times (2024).
He has received the California Peace Prize and has been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2014, President Obama named Fr. Boyle a Champion of Change. He received the University of Notre Dame’s 2017 Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American Catholics. Homeboy Industries was the recipient of the 2020 Hilton Humanitarian Prize validating 32 years of Fr. Greg Boyle’s vision and work by the organization for over three decades. In 2024 he was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor.