'For I know that in the presence of my brothers and sisters I have very often understood many things in the sacred text that I could not have understood alone...Thus it happens, by the grace of God, that as perception grows pride diminishes, since on your behalf I learn what I am teaching in your midst for - I must confess - I often hear with you what I am saying.'
Gregory the Great in Mariano Magrassi, Praying the Bible, p.10.
