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Priest Talk 

In an ancient monastery in a faraway place, a new monk arrived to
join his brothers in copying books and scrolls in the monastery's
scriptorium. He was assigned as a rubricator on copies of books
that had already been copied by hand. One day he, asked Father
Florian (the Armarius of the Scriptorium), "Does not the copying
by hand of other copies allow for chances of error? How do we know
we are not copying the mistakes of someone else? Are they ever
checked against the original?" Fr. Florian is set back a bit by
the obvious logical observation of this youthful monk. "A very
good point, my son. I will take one of the latest books down to
the vault and compare it against the original."

Fr. Florian went down to the secured vault and began his
verification. After a day had passed, the monks began to worry and
went down looking for the old priest. They were sure something
must have happened. As they approached the vault, they heard
sobbing and crying. When they opened the door, they found Fr.
Florian sobbing over the new copy and the original ancient book,
both of which opened before him on the table. It was obvious to
all that the poor man had been crying his old heart out for a long
time.

"What is the problem, Reverend Father?" asked one of the monks.
"Oh, my Lord," sobbed the priest, "the word is 'celebrate'!"




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