{"id":131363,"date":"2021-02-24T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carfundacion.roymo.info\/?post_type=testimonio&#038;p=131363"},"modified":"2024-10-10T13:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T11:34:54","slug":"seminaristas-del-mundo-cantan-al-senor-somos-el-pueblo-que-te-ama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/seminaristas-del-mundo-cantan-al-senor-somos-el-pueblo-que-te-ama\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminarians of the world sing to the Lord: \"We are the people who love you\"."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_85 et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_350\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_5 et_pb_column_907  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_3_5 et_pb_column_908  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_384 post-excerpt  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_385  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p><strong><em>In the midst of the pandemic crisis, the seminarians of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sedessapientiae.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Ecclesiastical College Sedes Sapientiae<\/a> wanted to unite their voices in a song of praise to the Lord.  The chosen song \"Somos el Pueblo que te ama\", composed by Junior Cabrera, director of the Catholic group Alfareros, was sung in more than 13 different languages by the seminarians. Jacobo Lama, promoter of this initiative, tells us how this idea came about.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Jacobo Lama, promoter of the initiative<\/h2>\n<p>Jacobo Lama is a seminarian from Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) who will be 32 years old next April. He will soon be ordained as a deacon. After studying theology for three years at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, he is now in Santo Domingo, collaborating with the archbishop in the curia and also with the pastor of a parish in the outskirts.<\/p>\n<p>Your bishop <strong>Francisco Ozoria Acosta<\/strong>The archbishop of Santo Domingo was the one who sent him to study in Rome and subsequently called him last July to return to his country. Santo Domingo was the first diocese of America; therefore, the bishop is also the Primate of America.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\"God gave me the gift of music.\" <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>But Jacobo Lama's great hobby is singing. \"<strong>God gave me the gift of music and singing.<\/strong>. I learned to play piano and guitar, and this would lead me to become part of the choir until I became a director, and then also a leader in the youth groups,\" he says.<\/p>\n<p>His love for music is what prompted him to compose a beautiful video clip before returning to his country. To give hope in times of coronavirus, the seminarians of the International Ecclesiastical College Sedes Sapientiae wanted to unite their voices in a song of praise to the Lord, magnifying His name from East to West, among all nations, as the prophet says, (cf. Malachi 1:11).<\/p>\n<h3>The Seminary Choir<\/h3>\n<p>Within the atmosphere of study and formation, but also of family at Sedes Sapientiae, with a fixed schedule of work, assignments and moments dedicated to prayer that set the tone every day, a new idea arose. With the desire to make the most of the time, <strong>The Seminary choir, together with other seminarians and priests, thought of recording a song that would carry a message of hope and consolation and that at the same time would be a praise to God.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_5 et_pb_column_909  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_351\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_3 et_pb_column_910  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_3 et_pb_column_911  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_386 frase-destacada  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>\"God gave me the gift of music and singing that I want to put at the service of evangelization.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_3 et_pb_column_912  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_352\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_5 et_pb_column_913  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_3_5 et_pb_column_914  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_image et_pb_image_84\">\n<p><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-131366\" title=\"Seminarians of Sedes Sapientiae.\" src=\"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Seminaristas-de-Sedes-Sapientiae.-.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1280px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Seminaristas-de-Sedes-Sapientiae.-.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Seminaristas-de-Sedes-Sapientiae.--980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Seminaristas-de-Sedes-Sapientiae.--480x270.jpg 480w\" alt=\"Seminaristas de Sedes Sapientiae.\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_with_border et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_387 leyenda  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>\"The people who love you\" was the video sung in 13 languages, by the seminarians of the International Ecclesiastical College Sedes Sapientiae, which was posted on the YouTube channel of Alfareros, a Catholic group from Latin America that has just celebrated its 25 years of service to evangelization.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to this initiative, the seminarians expressed themselves in the following way: \"With this song of many hearts praying and singing to the Lord in the heart of Rome and the Church, we seek to abandon ourselves into the hands of the Lord so that, with his grace, these humanly difficult circumstances may mean, for each one of us an interior growth in faith, hope and charity.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_5 et_pb_column_915  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_353\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_5 et_pb_column_916  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_3_5 et_pb_column_917  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_388  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<h2><strong>With the group Alfareros <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It was then that some Latin American students proposed the idea of recording the song in several languages. <em>The People Who Love You<\/em> of the group Alfareros, a Catholic group that celebrated 25 years of service to God through music last year.<\/p>\n<p>The group's director, Junior Cabrera, voluntarily agreed to collaborate with this initiative, providing the necessary material. This version was recorded in more than 13 different languages, such as Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Italian. Also Galician, Croatian, Vietnamese, Malayalam, Filipino, Arabic, Swahili and even the indigenous Zapotec language.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Inner growth of hope <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\"With this song of many hearts that pray and sing to the Lord in the heart of Rome and the Church, we try to abandon ourselves into the Lord's hands so that, with his grace, these humanly difficult circumstances may mean, for each one of us, an interior growth in faith, hope and charity,\" the seminarians affirmed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The video already has almost 6,000 views. You can watch it here. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>These were the seminarians who were part of the video clip:<\/strong> Sem. Laerth Ferreira - Brazil, Sem. Domingos Jorge - Angola, Dcn. Kingsley Omenyi - Nigeria, Don Pablo Gefaell - Spain, Shr. Jacobo Lama - Dominican Republic, Shr. Marko Gerendaj - Croatia, Shr. Alejandro Rangel - Venezuela, Sem. \u00cdtalo Alc\u00edvar - Ecuador, Sem. Lonnys Lares - Venezuela, Fr. Qu\u00e2n Nguy\u00ean - Vietnam, Shem. Jeril Jose - India, Shem. Jershom Colico - Philippines, Shem. Dean Spiller - South Africa, Sem. Emmanuel Marfo - Ghana, Sem. Banele Ndlovu - South Africa, Shr. Mark Tipoi - South Sudan, Shr. Juan Maldonado - Mexico, Dr. Michael Lusato - Tanzania, Shr. Khoa Pham - Vietnam, Shr. Patrick Anasenchor - Ghana, Fr. Francisco Vinumo - Angola, Fr. Brandon de Le\u00f3n - Guatemala<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\"My biggest hit.\" <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This musical initiative has encouraged Jacobo Lama to record another song: \"Mi mayor acierto\", composed 20 years ago by another priest for the vocation day held in Santo Domingo. The lyrics tell the story of a vocation that detaches itself from everything and says yes to the Lord. \"This song is reaching many people, it touches hearts and makes you think about what God wants from you,\" Jacobo explains.<\/p>\n<p>The video clip can be heard here:\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_5 et_pb_column_918  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_354\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_3 et_pb_column_919  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_3 et_pb_column_920  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_389 frase-destacada  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>\"In St. Dominic the number of baptized has grown but vocations to the priesthood or religious life have decreased.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_3 et_pb_column_921  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_355\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_5 et_pb_column_922  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_3_5 et_pb_column_923  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_image et_pb_image_85\">\n<p><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jacobo Lama with sister Sister Mar\u00eda Luc\u00eda.\" src=\"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Jacobo-Lama-con-la-herma-Sor-Maria-Lucia.-.jpg\" alt=\"Jacobo Lama con la herma Sor Mari\u0301a Luci\u0301a.\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_with_border et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_390 leyenda  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>For Jacobo Lama, WYD in Madrid in 2011 with Pope Benedict XVI was a before and after. \"After WYD I was no longer the same. My impression of the Church changed radically. I started going to Mass every day after work,\" he says. In the group of young people was a girl who later became a Carmelite. In the photo she is with her dear sister Sister Maria Lucia, celebrating the feast day of St. Therese of the Child Jesus. \"Let us pray for vocations!\" she encourages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_5 et_pb_column_924  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_356\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_5 et_pb_column_925  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_3_5 et_pb_column_926  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_391  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<h2><strong>Concerns of the Dominican Republic <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/colabora\/pon-cara-a-tu-donativo\/carlos-manuel-abreu-frias\/\">Dominican Republic<\/a> is the fastest growing economy in Latin America. Its Haitian neighbors, on the other hand, are the poorest. \"The roots of our homeland are rooted in Spanish culture, with a strong Catholic influence,\" says Jacobo.<\/p>\n<p>The concerns of his nation are not very different from those of the Western world: individualism and secularization, as well as the decline of young people in the practice of piety.<\/p>\n<p>\"The number of baptized has grown, but vocations to the priesthood and religious life have decreased,\" he says. The seminary of Santo Domingo had a total of 161 seminarians in 2016 and in 2020 only 64. In addition, with the pandemic, many faithful have stopped attending mass and follow it from their homes.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Only country that has protected the right to life <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Another challenge for the Dominican Church is to give reasons why the abortion law should not be legalized, since it is one of the few countries in Latin America (along with El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras) where abortion is prohibited under any circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The only constitution that establishes in an armored form the right to life from conception to death is the Dominican constitution in its article 37.<\/p>\n<p>\"The Catholic Church is very much listened to in our country. Within the government there are many Christians who take faith into account in their policies. Without going any further, the president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, is Catholic,\" he says.<\/p>\n<h3>In the service of your country<\/h3>\n<p>However, 57% of the population is Catholic, 23% are Protestant, 25% are Evangelical Christians and 12% declare themselves to have no religion.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobo Lama has returned to his country with an integral formation provided in Rome, thanks to the generosity of many benefactors. He will now put all his knowledge at the service of evangelization in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_5 et_pb_column_927  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child et_pb_column_empty\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of the pandemic crisis, the seminarians of the International Ecclesiastical College Sedes Sapientiae wanted to unite their voices in a song of praise to the Lord.  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