{"id":45248,"date":"2021-05-28T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/05\/28\/evangelizing-catholic-youth-through-music\/"},"modified":"2021-05-28T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T11:00:00","slug":"evangelizing-catholic-youth-through-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/05\/28\/evangelizing-catholic-youth-through-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelizing Catholic youth through music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019 Pope Francis closed World Youth Day in Panama with a message to young people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>'We like to say, 'you are the future'. No, you are the present. You are not God's future. You young people are God's now.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Pope's words inspired the title of this new album: \u201cSois el ahora de Dios,\u201d or \u201cYou are God's now', made up of 19 songs by emerging and  established Catholic artists and musicians.<\/p>\n<p>The project is promoted by the youth department of the Spanish Bishops' Conference, which has been working with these artists for years.<\/p>\n<p>Together they have organized events centered on music, prayer, and spiritual formation.  Now they are looking to support those who have long been evangelizing through music, and to give a boost to promising young musicians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FR. RAUL TINAJERO<\/strong><br \/>\nSpanish Bishop's Conference<br \/>\n<em>\u201cTo evangelize through music is to speak of the love of Christ, which is the purest, most beautiful thing, in a way that everyone understands and that touches your heart. We wanted to embrace those who have been doing this for many years, who have helped us a lot, especially in this dialogue with young people. But the other main objective was to look for new talents.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are God's now\u201d is more than just an album. It's the fruit of a mission to promote and support musicians: some of the world's greatest evangelizers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>JRB<\/p>\n<p>TR: JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 28, 2021. The album, \u201cYou are God's now,\u201d is being promoted by the Spanish Bishops' Conference to support established and up and coming artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rUe82RjTeCc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bdiscoepiscopalespanoleng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bdiscoepiscopalespanolint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}