Komic Korner

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping 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 Abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even the smallest error, it would never be picked up and the error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.

The Abbot 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 has not been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old Abbott.

So the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against a wall and wailing. “We missed the R, we missed the R.”

His forehead all bloody and bruised he is crying uncontrollably. The young man asks the Abbott “What’s wrong, Father?”

With a choking voice the old Abbott replies

“The word was celebRate”.