Visiting Priest This Sunday

Casey Cole, OFM is an American Franciscan friar, Catholic priest, writer, and blogger. Cole runs his own online blog and YouTube channel called Breaking in the Habit and is the author of the books Sent: How to Evangelize Wherever You Are, Whoever You Are, Let Go: Seven Stumbling Blocks to Christian Discipleship, and Called: What Happens After Saying Yes to God. 

On June 22nd, 2019, Cole was ordained a priest of the Franciscan Order by Luis R. Zarama, the Bishop of Raleigh, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. At Cole's insistence (wanting "the people of God in their realness to be there"), all lay liturgical ministers who assisted in the celebration of the Mass were women. 

Cole currently works with SEARCH in Charlotte, NC. Through their ministry, Franciscan friars are bringing the Gospel into everyday places, meeting people where they are and walking with them toward a deeper relationship with Christ.