A young monk
arrives at the monastery. He is assigned
to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by
hand.
He notices,
however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original
manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the
head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small
error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all
of the subsequent copies.
The head monk,
says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a
good point, my son."
He goes down
into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are
held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of
years. Hours go by and nobody sees the
old abbot…
So, the young
monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall
and wailing:
We
missed the R !
We
missed the R !
We
missed the R !
His forehead is
all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks the old abbot,
"What's wrong, father?"
With A choking
voice, the old abbot replies, "The word was...
CELEB R ATE
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