Youth from All over the World Join in Song
ROME, AUG 19 (ZENIT.org).- Over the past few days, a common sound on Roman buses and subways has been that of singing. Youth from all over the world have been brought closer together by the official theme song of World Youth Day. The song is an adaptation of a song by the Emmanuel Community, entitled "Emmanuel." We present here a translation of the lyrics.
From the horizon a great light / Travels through history / And through the years it has conquered the darkness / Making of itself a Memory, / And lighting our lives / Clearly it reveals to us / That you don't live unless you seek / The Truth.
...Emmanuel.
From a thousand roads we have arrived in Rome / With the footsteps of faith / We hear the echo of the Word / That still resounds / From these walls, from this sky / Through the whole world / He's alive today, he's the True Man, / Christ among us.
Refrain: We are here / Under the same light / Under his cross / Singing with voice united: / He's Emmanuel. / Emmanuel, Emmanuel / He's Emmanuel, Emmanuel.
From the city of those who have shed / Their blood for love / And have changed the old world, / We want to set out again. / Following Christ, together with Peter, / the faith is reborn in us, / A living word that renews us / And grows within us.
Refrain: We are here...
A great gift that God has given us / Is Christ his Son, / And humanity is renewed, / It is saved in him. / He is true man, he is true God, / He's the Bread of Life / That will give himself again to every person / And to his brethren.
Refrain: We are here...
Death is killed, life has won, / It is Easter throughout the world, / A wind blows in every person: / The fruitful Spirit. / That leads the Church, his Bride, / Forward through history, / Under the watch of Mary / Community
Refrain: We are here...
We debtors of the past / For centuries of history, / For lives given for love, / For saints who have believed, / For people who taught us to fly / To a high level, / For those who can change history, / Like Jesus.
Refrain: We are here...
An era of springtime has arrived / Now it's time to change. / Today is the ever-new day / To start again, / To give looks, new words / And convert hearts. / To say to the world, to every person: / Jesus is Lord!
Refrain: We are here...
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