New Beginnings
Homies are more than just gang members who have had a bad history with violence and incarceration, they are people who have had a troubled past, and aren’t necessarily bad. Many of them are still looking for reason to get better or keep something dear to them safe. Father Boyle through his experiences with the homies has found that they want just that, to become better people without resorting to a violent alternative. Father Boyle through his years as a priest in the heart of the cholo community in Boyle Heights has discovered that homies are people capable of change. He has helped many of them and seen many of them leave his world as well; Yet still he keeps his heart full of hope in the name of saving the homies around him.
Father Boyle’s most powerful tool in the aid of the homies is compassion by far, because he shows them this instead of punishment, they understand that there are alternative ways of repent, rather than them being hurt in anyway. …show more content…
This goes in terms of that person not exactly being bad, just that their actions are pretty bad, and could be fixed upon. When the issue is isolated and the person is not considered to be the issue then they can successfully correct the person from being viewed by society as bad or evil. Using this simple yet effective tool would allow for so much more progression within the community and the progression of creating a safer world for all those people around us. Compassion can be used in such an effective way that can bring kindness and not hatred, in a world where everyone is accustomed to viewing punishment as the only means to any negative action that they may have mistakenly done. Compassion is the reversal method and the saving grace for so many people who can be considered a lost cause and bring them fourth from the darkness of evil and to the light of good morality and
Homies are more than just gang members who have had a bad history with violence and incarceration, they are people who have had a troubled past, and aren’t necessarily bad. Many of them are still looking for reason to get better or keep something dear to them safe. Father Boyle through his experiences with the homies has found that they want just that, to become better people without resorting to a violent alternative. Father Boyle through his years as a priest in the heart of the cholo community in Boyle Heights has discovered that homies are people capable of change. He has helped many of them and seen many of them leave his world as well; Yet still he keeps his heart full of hope in the name of saving the homies around him.
Father Boyle’s most powerful tool in the aid of the homies is compassion by far, because he shows them this instead of punishment, they understand that there are alternative ways of repent, rather than them being hurt in anyway. …show more content…
This goes in terms of that person not exactly being bad, just that their actions are pretty bad, and could be fixed upon. When the issue is isolated and the person is not considered to be the issue then they can successfully correct the person from being viewed by society as bad or evil. Using this simple yet effective tool would allow for so much more progression within the community and the progression of creating a safer world for all those people around us. Compassion can be used in such an effective way that can bring kindness and not hatred, in a world where everyone is accustomed to viewing punishment as the only means to any negative action that they may have mistakenly done. Compassion is the reversal method and the saving grace for so many people who can be considered a lost cause and bring them fourth from the darkness of evil and to the light of good morality and