It would seem to me that anyone with the slightest bit of spiritual interest could master the Scriptures themselves.
Especially now that we know so many of the priest and monks have been involved in homosexuality.
I mean, those aren't the people I would be trusting with my soul.
And you are without sin I suppose. Are you then the pure and unadulterated interpreter of God's word? One of the reasons the monastics "know the Bible" better than others is because they read it much much more than you or I, and because they (most of them anyway) devote their entire life to God.