Furthermore…

Fisherman reeling in a mermaid in nun’s habit,  says, “Just my luck!”

While our group prays The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, my mind fidgets.

“Have mercy on us, and on the whole world.”

Every time I say ‘us,’ it nets a different school of fish. It’s our group, in this particular room, at this time. Then it’s the HIV/AIDS victims for whom we are praying. Then it’s my friends and family. Then it’s all the people anywhere involved in an AIDS ministry. Then it’s my deceased parents. I think, It’s not EVERYONE EVERYWHERE because “on the whole world” already covers that base.  ‘Who is Us’ is what I’m supposed to be solving.

 It’s our Parish. It’s our locality. It’s the U.S.  I like that last one!