Mmodzi wa atate oyambirira a Tchalitchi cha Romish, akumasonkhezera zonena za chipembedzo cha monastic pamwamba pa thayo la chikondi chaubwana ndi ntchito, anali atalengeza kuti: “Angakhale atate wako atagona pakhomo pako, akulira ndi kulira, ndipo amako akakusonyeza iwe thupi limene uli nalo. ndi mabere amene anakuyamwitsa, penya kuti uwapondereze, ndi kupita pomwepo kwa Khristu.” 
One of the early Fathers of the Roman Church, urging the claims of monasticism above the obligations of filial love and duty, had declared: “Though thy father should lie before thy door weeping and lamenting, and thy mother should show the body that bore thee and the breasts that nursed thee, see that thou trample them underfoot, and go onward straightway to Christ.”