Sermon from December 13, 2009 – What if There Were No Joy?

Scripture Reading: Zephaniah 3:14-20; Philippians 4:4-7

An old classic story is set in an ancient monastery whose main task was to copy scriptures. One day the leader, Father Florian, was asked by a new monk: “Does not the copying by hand allow for chances of error? How do we know we are not copying the mistakes of someone else? Are the copies ever checked against the originals?”
“A very good point,” Father Florian agreed. “I will take one of the latest books down to the vault and compare it to the original.”
After the day had passed and the priest had not returned, the monks began to worry.