When Jesus called his disciples, he also called them away from their jobs and their families (see, for example, Matthew 4:22). Now, jobs and families don’t sound like bad things, do they? He called them to leave their nets because as long as anyone is tied to job security, there are a lot of things they cannot see and cannot say. This is one of the great recurring disadvantages of clergy earning their salary from the church, and perhaps why Saint Francis did not want us to be ordained priests.
