Wednesday 17th and Sunday 21st January, double event in honour of Sant'Antonio Abate.
Double appointment in Casagiove in the name of the cult of Sant'Antonio Abate and the traditional rites connected to it. Wednesday 17 January, after the Holy Mass at 10,30:19,15 celebrated by all the parish priests of the city, in the evening at XNUMX:XNUMX the procession will be held with the effigy of the Saint from the headquarters of the Congregation of Sant'Antonio di Padova to Piazza degli Eroi, accompanied by the Gran Concerto Bandistico Città di Casagiove 'Pompeo Ferraro'. The route will end with the traditional blessing of domestic animals, the lighting of the 'Cippo di Sant'Antuono' and at the end the fireworks display.
On Sunday 21 January in Piazza Silvagni you can taste free pasta and beans with musical entertainment by the 'PTB Part Time Band' by the Parish Communities of Santa Croce and San Francesco di Paola. In Piazza San Michele, instead, you can taste free polenta, supported by the notes of 'Arka', by the Parish Community of San Michele Arcangelo. Piazza Della Vittoria will host the performance of the group 'Le 7 Stelle di Nanto' and the participation of 'Up & Clown', by the Parish Community of Santa Maria della Vittoria, with the possibility of consuming free grilled sandwiches. The event will close with a concert by the 'Pastellesse Sound Group'.
The two-day celebrations are part of the Project 'Le Feste del Fuoco' - Intervention co-financed by the POC Campania 2014-2020, Urban regeneration, policies for tourism and culture. A unitary program of cultural, naturalistic and food and wine tourist itineraries of national and international scope - led by the Municipality of Macerata Campania and partners the Municipalities of Casagiove, Castel Morrone, Marcianise, Recale and San Nicola la Strada.
Regarding the event, the Councilor for Culture Gennaro Caiazza had to admit: 'It will be a celebration with a strong and synergic collaboration with the Four Parishes of the city. "He who feels winter descending on his soul, perhaps has only a little fire in him", wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in Human, All Too Human in 1878. Inside the tongues of the flames of the burning bonfire are hidden meanings as old as man. Fire is the common language that overlaps with the languages and dialects of the world. It speaks and is understood. In our traditions, fire is the reason and the occasion for sharing. In front of a fireplace, around a bonfire, we feel united by the natural tendency to evoke and relive the emotions. Fire illuminates the beauty of simple things, it is a propitiatory of new and hope; its heat smells of life and keeps away the frost of winter and loneliness.
This is the meaning of the Fire Festivals.
This is the meaning that is inside the initiative of the City of Casagiove of the day of St. Anthony the Abbot and the Sunday that follows. A celebration of unity and spirituality. The Parish Communities together, with their experiences, hopes, the need for solidarity, peace, brotherhood, held in a big embrace that strongly expresses the desire for a future that broadens its horizons to include everyone, including those in need and those who suffer, breaking down walls that separate, destining hearts to forgiveness and the courage of new beginnings.
A celebration that has the light and warmth of bonfires, the color of shared feeling, the magic of feeling equal among equals.
A celebration that recreates, taking root all fears and destines us to face the future with courage, intelligence, imagination, love that the Community preserves in its wisdom and in its value.
This and nothing else is the meaning of the Festa dei Fuochi; a meaning that is one of good wishes and optimism, of a good common path to travel, of reasons that unite. It is a celebration of the Casagiovesi, the main protagonists, the Municipal Administration has defined the framework with this initiative, the work that it will contain will be designed by everyone, no one.
Article published on 17 January 2024 - 11:42
