Monastery Life

[ironman2000]

Monastery Lifeffice:
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<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = "O" /><O:p></O:p>
He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript.<O:p></O:p>
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!<O:p></O:p>
In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.<O:p></O:p>
The head monk, says, 'We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.'<O:p></O:p>
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..<O:p></O:p>
Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot..<O:p></O:p>
So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing,<O:p></O:p>
'We missed theR! We missed theR! We missed theR!'<O:p></O:p>
His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably.<O:p></O:p>
The young monk asks the old abbot, ‘What’s wrong, father?' With A choking voice, the old abbot replies,<O:p></O:p>
'The word was... CELEBRATE!!!'<O:p></O:p>

[sweetbet]

hahaha.. I think that I would need some serious counseling if I was one of those monks

[universal4]

Gee and I have found that I smash my head against the wall much less now......



Rick
Universal4

[LindaH]

HAHAHAH! Funny story! I am sure their lives was changed after that.