When I was growing up, I remember someone praying this unusual grace before meals somewhere along the way: “Blessed Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, whoever eats the quickest gets the most.” While not the most pious offering, I was thinking of these words the other day and how, to a certain extent, they are true in the spiritual life. As one of my favorite passages in the book of Sirach explains:
“For the memory of me is sweeter than honey,
and the possession of me sweeter than the…