[TomSmedley]

If you really want to love and serve the Lord as you claim to do, why don't you ask Our Lord to give you His heart with which to love His Mother. What have you got to lose? I'm sure He would grant you this grace if you asked with a sincere and humble heart.

Maybe while I'm at it, I could ask God for grace to love your wife in somewhat the way I love mine? Or maybe I could ask for grace to glom onto your posessions. Nahaaz, the Syrian commander in the Book of Kings, asked for and received permission to bow down before another deity, but his was a special case. I'm not too sure I'd be on safe ground if I asked God for permission to violate the first commandment. If we deliberately try to embrace that which we know to be contrary to God's clear command, we open our souls up to satanic deception.

[murphE]

Your post makes no sense. How can it be contrary to any of Our Lord's commands by asking Our Lord to give us the grace to love as He does?

And he said to all: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke 9:23

As Catholics we try to live lives in imitation of Our Lord. Your Protestant prejudice is showing again.

Speaking of satanic deception, there seems to be a lot of enmity between you and the woman Mary.