Sunday Song: Iglesia Joven

The theme for Pope Kick Ass I's first World Youth Day was "Go and make disciples of all nations!" That's what we're singing about when we sing "Iglesia Joven" (Young Church). Some people may like to look at idealistic young people like yours truly and call us "naive." I like to look back at those people and call them "useless." The Church when it was young did transform the entire world. Christianity spread very quickly considering its founder got publicly executed by the most powerful state in the region. It's the idealism of the young Church, of the church youth, that pushes the Church forward and makes change. Not every young idealist will change the world. But none of the old cynics will change anything. 

The only other thing to note on this song is that the change will come "tomorrow at the latest." If I remember my high school work ethic, that means that it might not ever get done. So we need the old folks to keep us in check and on task.

Translation after the jump. 

Somos como un torrente  que recien se está formando  y que mañana a mas tardar  arrasará con todo  Nos estamos prerando  para redimir al mundo  y ese hombre  que está esclavo de si  que forma la sociedad  Somos iglesia joven  tratamos de tranformar  el mundo entero  en una sociedad  limpia y justa  donde no exista la esclavitud  No nos detendra nada ni nadie  seremos los que rompan las cadenas  las cadenas  que atan ha este mundo sin amor  Sera una guerra sin armas  pero si de muchos cambios  cual el hombre tendra que enfrentar  con solo su conversión  Entonces será otra - la sociedad ideal  la que cristo quiso  en la tierra y predico al mundo  [Coro]

We are like a torrent that just is forming and tomorrow at the latest will sweep away everything We are preparing ourselves to redeem the world and that man which is slave if forming society We are the young church We try to tranform The entire world Into a society clean and fair where there is no slavery Nothing and no one will stop us we will be the ones who break those chains the chains that bind this world without love It will be a war without weapons but with many changes which man will have to face with only his conversion Then it will be different - the ideal society that Christ wanted on earth and preached to the world [Chorus]