I Am Not Wearing My Habit For THIS!

[Music] unless this is your first breaking in a habit video you probably know that wearing the habit is an important part of my life and ministry for me it's a sign of radical availability that when I wear it out in public people can come up to me and offer their needs that I can serve people in a way that I wouldn't if I just wore jeans it's a sign of the kingdom a sign of evangelization for this reason there's almost no place I wouldn't go in my habit I wear to school in to church to the neighborhood to go shopping I wear it on the plane when I travel I've even been to a few bars in my habit but there are a few places that I won't go in my habit and today is one of them so there we go this is much more like it let's go now before your imaginations run wild and the headlines read brother Casey breaking out of the habit to do something crazy you should know that there are often many times that we don't wear our habits because it's just not practical I would never wear my habit to the doctor's often sigh don't go swimming in it I don't go to the gym and other people have seen me outside my habit so we're not doing anything crazy today that said what we're doing today is long overdue and I'm very excited to share it with you but before we get to that I've got to get to the bus stop I took way too long filming this morning and I'm definitely late seto is not gonna be happy if I'm late for this [Music] it's brother Tito Hey so I haven't told them what we're doing today what are we doing today oh you're getting a haircut I'm getting a haircut are you disappointed it's much cooler than it sounds now before you click away hold on because it's not just a normal haircut I haven't just run out of things to do and I'm bored today there's actually something very cool about this you may remember last year at this series called a fryer life and I highlighted the fryer named angel Vasquez as a fryer I wondered do direct service with the poor and for me the gospel passage of being told to wash the feet of people and be a servant to others in today's society for me is cutting someone's hair watching their hair grooming them giving them a sense of humanity and dignity that they deserve because they are beautiful creatures of God well angel has almost done his degree as a barber and now he's taking appointments so Tito and I are gonna go and we're gonna get haircut from grow what you're doing chewing and texting setting up a ride so I may not be as cool as Casey Neistat and Peter McKinnon but I do have a skateboard in my video so I mean I'm not the one riding it but I'm cool right cool cool by proxy sure yeah that's not cool [Music] No okay I do remember this guy hi I'm not talking to you I'm talking to the good people of the camera oh well hi good people of the camera me from my outtakes hi my name is inter vest no don't say hi hi my name is angel vet no I don't say hi no I'm angel Vasquez my live my name my name my name one bit I'm sure he's not like Sweeney Todd I'm sure I haven't heard my brother in any way recently you know it's gonna make some pies later on we met a year ago this matter here we go yeah it's starting what's been like it's been great I'm really happy I was able to finish off my studies program you combine that pastoral Studies degree with the practical better what's a better way to connect with people then cut in there so many people there in the chair for a good 20 to 30 minutes why not you know give them an opportunity event that they want event to have a conversation if they want to have a conversation or discuss islands you know whatever they feel they need in that moment just to kind of be with them in that does it then what you wanted it to be it's been fantastic how's it looking I've made 30 mistakes that's okay though cuz I make the rest of the head to say mistake look exactly like I was meant to do it that way you know that's the sort of confidence we like to hear that's parts about being here is the fact that it's downtown Chicago so you get every type of hair coming in through those doors you know now in a normal situation I would pass to any funny mistakes you've made but I don't want to hear about them right now the best mistake I made was with with listens with Joe actually oh no he does your for mater yeah he goes do you know how he wears his hair like oh so he goes I wanted to inches over the year so I said okay I understood it like to you know over the year you know he meant over the year so I'm like how go right in and I just like Schmitt he goes like means what are you doing which is over here the one who does your evaluations and says if you're allowed to be a friar yes good he came in trust me with his hair and you know it was a simple misunderstanding in Word [Music] good thank you thanks for coming in and next to no shadow hopefully we think look good yeah give it up for Angel so there you go not only as a decent haircut it was eight bucks when you think Franciscan friars you probably don't think barber but maybe you should we're always supposed to go where the people are and that's really annoying we're called to go where people are and people need haircuts I really I admire angel what he's doing I think it's a great vocation and I think it forces us to think differently about what it means to do ministry so good for him I wish him all the best so there you go not bad right not bad for eight bucks and a trainee so I got both my ears no cuts everything shorter so good job angel thank you very much it was great to get out and see him living his vocation a very creative vocation that I want to encourage it's great to be out with Tito and honestly it was great to be out not in my habit every once in a while as much as I love to be radically available it can be tiring sometimes tiring to always be answering questions tiring to be gawked at tiring just have always feel like I'm the center of attention and sometimes it's really nice just to be incognito just to be myself and relaxed but you know what I didn't join this life to be comfortable I joined this life to evangelize to serve God's people to be radically available to whatever God asks of me yes wearing the habit can be a little overwhelming at times it can be tiring to always be a center of attention always have people staring at you but you know what when I don't wear it I almost feel like there's a part of me missing like I'm hiding something like I'm not really Who I am as strange as it sounds I actually feel more comfortable in the habit with all that comes with it than just in jeans and a t-shirt so with that said now this this is more like it my name is brother Casey Cole and I'm here to serve [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Breaking In The Habit

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Keywords: Franciscan, Catholic, Casey Cole, vlog, Catholicism, Christian, Jesus, habit

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Length: 9min 28sec (568 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 26 2018