Mr. Canoli's last request
Mr. Canoli, an aged Italian from the neighborhood was in the final stages of a valiant fight with cancer. He was in the local catholic hospital & all the nuns knew him so they gave him special attention.
When he began to feel a new energy & started talking about getting well, the sisters all knew this to be a sigh the end was near.
They called Mother Superior so she could council him.
She said "Mr. Canoli, now that you are planning to return home, maybe this would be a good tome to settle your bill."
"I wish I could, sister, but everything I owned was spent on medicine prior to me being admitted here, I haven't a penny left to my name."
"Do you have property that you could offer for a temporary lien until you get back on your feet?"
"Sorry sister, that's all gone too, sold to pay medical bills."
"I'm sure it's not that bleak in this hour of need, don't you have family that can assist you till you're back on your feet?"
"That prolly won't work either sister, you see I'm all alone in this world except an old maid sister & she's a nun. I now she hasn't got any money."
"SIR, if your sister is a nun, she is NOT an old-maid, she is the bride of CHRIST!"
"Good think'en sister, send the bill to my brother-in-law."