Monk Joke........?

Question

A new young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices however, that all the monks are copying from copies and not from the original manuscript. So the new monk goes to the abbot to question this, pointing outthat 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 abbot says,"We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point my son." So the abbot goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscript is held in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot.

The young monk gets worried and goes down stairs to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall. His forehead is all bloody and bruised and the abbot is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks

the old abbot, "What's wrong father?"
With a choking voice the old abbot replies, "The word is celebrate."


I dont get this please explain

Answer 1

LOL instead of "celibate"

Answer 2

That's funny!! All those years the monks were going without sex because they thought the church laws said to celebrate, Not be celibate!

Answer 3

I think the mistakenly wrote "celebate" for the virgin mary or something.

Answer 4

Ya its instead of celibate, celebrate..... :D

Answer 5

I think your missing some of it.

I cant understand it.

Answer 6

It says "celebrate", not "celebate"!

Answer 7

i dont get it either
o_O

Answer 8

I dunno! Sorry!