Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover had to correct one of his junior officers, who had presumed to use the royal we in asserting his authority. The admiral reminded him that only three groups are permitted to use the royal we: pregnant women, royalty and schizophrenics. Mark Twain made the same point, but with slightly different groups. He asserted that only kings, editors and people with tapeworms have the right to use what he called the editorial “we”. In today’s gospel, seventy disciples returned with joy from their two-by-two, thirty-five town evangelistic mission, and reported that “even the demons submit to us!” Jesus responds to them, not like the admiral or the journalist, cautioning them not to presume an authority and a majesty that is not theirs and is reserved for others.