Kaban ni Mulong: ANG PANGAPE KAUBAN SA SANTO PAPA

Coffee with the Pope

Nescafe  manages to  arrange a  meeting with  the pope at  the Vatican. After  receiving the  papal  blessing, the  Nescafe  official  whispers,  "Your  Eminence,  we  have an offer  for you.  Nescafe is  prepared to  donate $100  million to the  church if you  change the  Lord's Prayer  from 'give us  this day our  daily bread'  to 'give us  this day our  daily  coffee'."

The  pope responds,  "That is  impossible.  The prayer is  the word of  the Lord.  It  must not be  changed."

"Well,"  says the  Nescafe man,  "we  anticipated  your  reluctance.  For this  reason we will  increase our  offer to $300  million."

"My  son, it is  impossible.  For the prayer  is the word of  the Lord, and  it must not be  changed."

The  Nescafe guy  says, "Your  Holiness, we  at Nescafe  respect your adherence to  the faith, but  we do have one  final  offer...we  will donate $500 million -  that's half a  billion  dollars - to  the great  Catholic  Church if you would only  change the  Lord's Prayer  from 'give us  this day our  daily bread' to 'give us  this day our  daily coffee.'  Please  consider it."  And he leaves.

The  next day the  Pope convenes  the College of  Cardinals. "There  is some good  news," he  announces,  "and some bad  news.  The  good news is  that the  Church will  come into $500  million."

"And  the bad news,  your  Holiness?"  asks a  Cardinal.

"We're  losing the  Wonder Bread  account."