A young monk, new to the monastery

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A young monk, new to the monastery, noticed that the scribes were copying

the scriptures from copies, not originals. He expressed his concern to the

abbot that any mistakes in the copies would be passed on, and the scriptures

would become corrupted. The abbot replied that this is the way it had always

been done but the point was valid, and he would check it out. He descended

into the vaults to look over the originals, and he was gone a long time.

With some concern, the young monk went looking for him and found him sobbing

with abandon, his tears pouring upon his frock. "What is the matter, my good

abbot?" asked the monk, to which the abbot choked out, "In the original,

the word was 'celebrate'!"