Portsmouth Roman Catholic

O  Mother I was walking past a stable and I saw A tiny little baby in a little bed of straw The mother turned and smiled at me so how could I pass them by I thought that I would cheer the child or sing a lullaby The baby was so beautiful, I tried so hard to please But then I felt a surge of love  and fell upon my knee And I just knelt in wonder as I heard the Angels sing May peace on earth be with you child for this is Christ your KIng. And then some shepherds came inside for they had heard the song They said he was the saviour they had waited for so long I did not understand the things that they were speaking of I just kept looking in those eyes that filled me with such love The mother`s name was Mary and she kissed me on the cheek "It`s little children just like you my little boy will seek" And then she lifted up the child and filled me with such joy As in my tiny little arms she placed her little baby boy

We must hold as of the faith, that out of the Apostolic Roman Church there is no salvation; that she is the only ark of safety, and whosoever is not in her perishes in the deluge; we must also, on the other hand, recognize with certainty that those who are invincible in ignorance of the true religion are not guilty for this in the eyes of the Lord. And who would presume to mark out the limits of this ignorance according to the character and diversity of peoples, countries, minds and the rest?" These were the words of Pope Pius IX in 1854. The reason he commented on this doctrine was that modernists were making inroads into and teaching salvation for all. Again at the Council of Florence there were very stern warnings that outside of the Church there was no salvation but this was again when the French King was threatening to withdraw the French Church from union with Rome. There is a large number of Popes who have commented often angrily at the heretics and it is understandab

Cardinal Heenan on his return from Vatican II told the priests of his parish how devotion to Mary if abolished would lead to the lessening of devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. This mirrored a "those who deny the mother end up by denying the son" saying which I often heard. The attack on the Blessed Sacrament and the real presence was swift and appalling from peoplw who still pretended they were honest. It started with the First Communion classes. Children were no longer taught anything about the Real Presence with the sad excuse that they were too young to understand. Then the tabernacles were removed from the altar with the simple straight forward lie that their presence was liturgically incorrect. This left the priest and the people without the presence of Jesus so an old doctrine was twisted to serve the purpose- the community became the Body of Christ. An honest person would ask but what about transubstantiation, well this was just dropped. Suddenly all sorts of th