Love, the mother and guardian of all good things, which binds togethe the hearts of many by uniting them, does not judge as absent him whom it has present in its mind's eye. Therefore, most holy brother, since er are held by the root of this love, neither our bodily absence nor the distance between our regions will be able to make any claim at all on us, because of course we who are as one, are not far from eachother.
But let us always pray that this love of ours should be shared with our other brethren.
But there is something that binds us to the Church of Alexandrie in some peculiar way, and compels us to be more prone to loving it by some special law. For as it is clear to all that Saint Mark the evangelist was sent over to Alexandrie by hist master, Saint Peter the apostle, so we are bound together by the unity of this master and disciple, so that I seem to preside over the see of my disciple because of the master, and you seem to presice over the see of your master because of the disciple.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 444
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