A young monk arrives at the Vatican Library where he is put to work as a reviewer of ancient texts.
After a few days, he notices that the monks making copies of the various holy texts to sell for charity are all working from copies -- not the original. This alarms the young monk because he thinks of how easy it would be for mistakes to be repeated. And so he goes to the Head Monk and the local Cardinal and expresses his concerns.
"Yes, brother," replies the Head Monk, "you have a valid point. But this is the way we've always done it."
"Still," adds the Cardinal, "better check to make sure there are no errors."
So off the monk goes to the cellar where he spends the entire next twenty-four years carefully consulting the original scriptures and comparing them to the copies. One morning some of the brothers go down to the cellar and find the monk crying.
"What's the matter?" they ask.
Between the loudest of sobs, he groans: "The word is celebrate... CELEBRATE!"
