A new young monk arrives at the monastery.

He is assigned to help 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.". So he goes down into the dark caves underneath
the monastery where the original manuscript is 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 downstairs to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall,
and wailing "We forgot the 'R', We forgot 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, "Celebrate, the word is celebrate."




Narelle Bell


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