Dutch Bishop to Host ‘Pink Saturday’ Prayer Service for Gay Pride Parade

Church Militant ^ | June 2, 2017 | Trey Elmore

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Dutch Bishop to Host ‘Pink Saturday’ Prayer Service for Gay Pride Parade

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by Trey Elmore

 •  ChurchMilitant.com  •  June 2, 2017    29 Comments

Netherlands first nation in the world to legalize same-sex marriage and euthanasia

GRONINGEN, Netherlands (ChurchMilitant.com) -  Dutch media is reporting that Bp. Gerard de Korte of the diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch is giving his blessing to the Dutch gay pride celebration. Known as Pink Saturday, or Roze Zaterdag, the bishop will also host a LGBT ecumenical celebration at the cathedral of the diocese on June 24, the feast of Saint John the Baptist.

Bishop de Korte said, "We want to show that everyone is welcome. ... It is a great honor and a wonderful sign of joining that the ecumenical prayer celebration should take place this time in the cathedral basilica."

The Roze Zaterdag's page describing the prayer service reads, "We are inspired by the story of Moses at the burning bush." The website goes on, "God makes Himself known in this story by the name I-Will-Be-There. Anytime, anywhere, for you, for everyone. The celebration is room for joy, gratitude and hope, but also pain, impotence and struggle. These are interconnected and the party for everyone."

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Previous years' Roze Zaterdag festivals have included the same trappings as gay pride parades around the world: public nudity, S&M costumes and drag queens, among other things. Bishop de Korte's blessing presumably covers all of this.

The Netherlands is one of the most secularized states in Europe. A 2015 Gallup International poll found that the Netherlands was second only to Hong Kong in the number of non-religious and atheists in their population, coming in with a 66-percent secular population. Catholics make up less than 12 percent, and among Dutch Catholics, Mass attendance was at 5 percent as of 2013.

In an interview with Vatican Radio in 2013, Cdl. Wim Eijk, known for orthodoxy, cited projections by the Dutch government that Islam would become the country's second largest religion by 2020. In 2010, an organization called the Future of Religious Heritage also reported that, at the time, the rate of church closures were two a week and that 150 of the then-170 monasteries would be closed by 2020.

The Netherlands is on the leading edge of all assaults against life and family. The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalize so-called "same-sex marriage" in April 2001, two years before Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize it. On euthanasia, again, the Netherlands was the first country to introduce the practice in 2002, and since then has only seen increases in people opting to kill themselves. These include 650 babies a year killed under the country's euthanasia law.

As recently as January, Bp. de Korte met with his lawyer to discuss filing a lawsuit against the company that filmed a sex act in St. Joseph's Church in Tilburg. The church's pastor, Fr. Jan van Noorwegen, said, "That's not the right place. I do not know how they got in; the gate is only open a few hours a day." Father van Noorwegen went on to say, "But then there are always people in the church. No one saw anything."
 

[Pollster1]

And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

I'm not optimistic that the "Bishop" will choose an appropriate verse like this one.

[heterosupremacist]

Insanity. there is so much wrong with Pink Saturday, or Roze Zaterdag... Somehow ecumenically 'celebrated' on June 24, the feast of Saint John the Baptist. In a Basilica, no less! “...no man born of woman is greater than John the Baptist”? Matthew 11:11 "Previous years' Roze Zaterdag festivals have included the same trappings as gay pride parades around the world: public nudity, S&M costumes and drag queens, among other things. Bishop de Korte's blessing presumably covers all of this." WHAAA??? “The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.” St. Athanasius, Council of Nicaea, AD 325

[madprof98]

No need to destroy the Catholic church. It is destroying itself.

[Arthur McGowan]

This is PRECISELY what Bergoglio wants. He keeps his own hands relatively clean, but he poses for photos with trannies, sodomites, abortionists, etc. He appoints more and more sodomite bishops (Chicago, San Diego, etc.), and punishes “conservatives” and “ideologues.”

The next Catholic Pope MUST depose virtually all of Bergoglio’s bishops.

[TheTimeOfMan]

I am very concerned that there will not be another Christian pope. Just anti-Christs.

Lay Catholics must start becoming loud and militant.

[tbpiper]

"God makes Himself known in this story by the name I-Will-Be-There.

That's an out and out lie.

[Arthur McGowan]

I don’t think that can happen.

The Church HAS had some series of bad Popes. Bergoglio could be the beginning of a series, especially since he is deliberately stacking the College of Cardinals with psychopaths like himself.

[Arthur McGowan]

Jesus didn’t promise anything, regarding the Church, except that it would exist until the end of time. It has been utterly wiped out in many countries, and it will almost certainly happen in Europe next.

The schismatic sodomites control many American dioceses, and the Pope is on their side.

[StormPrepper]

Jesus didn’t promise anything, regarding the Church, except that it would exist until the end of time.

No He didn't. He made the promise that His Church would be present at the end of time. Not that it would last till then.

[Arthur McGowan]

The Church goes out of existence, and then comes back into existence?

[StormPrepper]

The Church goes out of existence, and then comes back into existence?

Absolutely.

Man rejected true doctrine and the true Church. Linus I was never chosen by God to lead the Church. The true Church of Christ is always lead by a prophet. Always. And when Linus was said to be in charge, there was still a living Apostle and Prophet on the earth. And the Lord was speaking to this Apostle face to face. Linus could never have been the leader of the Church. It isn't possible.

This is why for thousands of years, from Adam to the Apostle John, there have always been a prophet leading the people of God. Until the people rejected Christ and killed the Apostles. Then nothing.

This was foretold by Christ, Daniel, and Amos.

This is why none of the Churches resemble the Church Christ set up originally. They are all apostate churches created by men. And they have no prophets. And they all teach different doctrine. And none are recognized by God as His Church.

This is what the Lord meant when He said there would be a "falling away".

I mean even on this forum, various religionist can even agree on the necessity of baptism, how it should be perform, who has the right to perform it, or what it even means. Something so simple escapes them.

And the Lord kept His word by restoring what was lost. If the Lord had tried to raise up a prophet in the time after Christ ascended, they would have been killed. The Catholic Church would have burned them at the stake. So none were sent until that danger was passed.

Rev 11 speaks explicitly about two real prophets that have stood in the presence of God. Which means God does still speak to prophets face to face just like He's done since Adam. They are killed in the streets of Jerusalem just days before the second coming.