Introduction
Objective
I can analyze and reflect on the "Introduction" of Tattoos on the Heart.
The Introduction
Read the Introduction
Discussion Questions:
Which parable did you connect with the most in the reading? Why?
How did G-Dog's parish slowly build up to the creation of Homeboy Industries?
How did people react to G-Dog's work with the gang members?
Explain the following quote: “A new sense of ‘church’ had emerged, open and inclusive, replacing the hermetically sealed model that had kept the ‘good folks’ in and the ‘bad folks’ out.” Page 3.
Explain the following quote: “ You have to crawl before you can walk, and then you walk before you can run.”... “Yeah, but I know I can fly. I just need to catch a gust o’wind.” Pages 9-10.
Explain the following quote: "[Luis] embraced this goodness-his greatness-and nothing was the same again. And, really, what is death compared to knowing that? No bullet can pierce it." Pages 16-17.
Hafez (poem on page 17) indicates that we all yearn for people to love us. What does Hafez think we need to do about that? How can we do this?
Activity 1: Introduction Reading Guide
Make a copy of this Google Doc (Click "File" then "Make a copy.") and answer the questions in the right hand column. One you have finished make a new sub page title "Introduction" under "Summaries" and post this Google Doc on it. Remember to turn on link sharing is the "Share" settings.
Activity 2: Introduction Reflection
Pick two of the following prompts on the webpage. Answer each question two or more paragraphs (Remember a paragraph is 5 or more sentences). Write out the questions you are responding to so Mr. Q may know when he grades your responses. Be sure to reference parts of the book and use quotes (unless it is a personal reflection).
Pick one of the parables. Explain how one of the people in the parables demonstrated one or more of the Catholic Social Teachings (CSTs).
1 Corinthians 13: 4-8, describes the role of “love” in our lives. What can you take away from the passage below? How does it apply to Fr. Greg’s lessons to the homies?
“4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 [a]bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails”
The homies asked Fr. Greg, “‘What’s the point,’ they’d ask, ‘of doing good...If this can happen to ya?’” How would you have responded to their question? How can you apply this to your life?
Luis “embraced this goodness—his greatness—and nothing was the same again. And, really, what is death compared to knowing that? No bullet can pierce it.” How can you “embrace your goodness?” Why does Julian of Norwich see knowing we are “clothed in God’s goodness” as a life long struggle?