Monastery Life

Monastery Life
Humor
Thanks to Dr. Joe for submitting today's joke

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 following
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...

CELEBRATE!!"