Unless You Hate Your Mother and Father, You're Not Worthy to Be My Disciple

Francis of Assisi was a italian saint. He decided to become a dominican friar, and his family tried to dissuade him from the vocation. Unless you hate your mother and father, brothers and sisters, even your own life, you're not worthy to be my disciple. Think about that for a second. Look, i've been at this game for a long time. I don't mean thomas aquinas psychologically hated his mother and father. But he did say, you are not the absolute good in my life. There's a higher good, the christ, who calls me. And so they finally gave in. They let him go.