Regret!

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 Old 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 bloody 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!"

Thanks Richard