What to read

The Homeboy Way
Thomas Vozzo
Loyola Press, 235 pages

Homeboy Industries, founded in Los Angeles in 1992 by Jesuit Fr. Greg Boyle, is “the largest gang rehabilitation and re- entry program in the world,” according to its website, and helps countless former gang members and incarcerated men and women become productive members of society. Thomas Vozzo, a former longtime executive for Aramark and its subsidiaries, has been its CEO for the last nine years. Here he describes the life lessons he learned in his transition from the profit-driven boardrooms to a not- for-profit organization serving poor and forgotten outcasts of society. His epiphany: we need to do business — and life — differently, and solve social inequities “The Homeboy Way.”

Love Never Fails: Living the Catholic Faith in Our Daily Lives
Bishop Donald Hying
Ignatius Press, 187 pages

“Love Never Fails” is the episcopal motto of Bishop Donald Hying of the Diocese of Madison, WI, and this collection of spiritual reflections from his regular column in the Madison Catholic Herald aptly illuminates the necessity of love to overcome our contemporary challenges. His words are food for the journey covering a selection of topics on how to live out the Catholic faith with hope and joy as we model ourselves after the person of Christ.

It’s a message we all need to hear, especially when life gets rough: love never fails, because love has already triumphed through the redemption won for us by Christ.

The Lenten Cookbook
David Geisser with essays by Scott Hahn
Sophia Institute Press, 224 pages

As amusing as it may be to imagine theologian par excellence Scott Hahn donning an apron in the kitchen as he prepares a cauldron of “Pot-au- Feu-Style Vegetable Stew with Sea Bass,” it is chef David Geisser who cooked up these delectable recipes that might well have you wishing Ash Wednesday would arrive a bit sooner. Hahn contributes thoughtful catechesis on the history and purpose of our practice of Lenten fast and abstinence. More than
a dozen of the recipes are suitable for those who take on a more rigorous penance that excludes not only meat but eggs and dairy as well. This book will help make your Lent more mindful and meaningful ... and a bit tastier too.