Gaeta celebrates St. Anne.

Gaeta July 22, 2011 - Fruitful, whose bunch is Jesus of all the women who came before, none has been chosen to become the Mother of the Mother of God and the Messiah sweet Ava. "

Here, clearly, we can see that Mary is likened to the mystical "fruitful vine" that bears fruit, and then "in the fullness of time" the Divine Bunch, Jesus Christ our Lord. S. John of Damascus confirms the above comparison and, in his wonderful Oration II "De Nativitate Virginis", with accents of joy, as he exclaims: "Hasten, all you peoples, and be glad: She who is born today is the joy of the whole universe . Today, the tree of Jesse lies down on a branch of the world where the flower bloomed. From Anna sprouts a fruitful vine that produced the cluster of grapes ".

From these brief quotations, we may infer, then, that the kind gesture made by our gardeners has value not only merely a propitiatory for the incipient harvest, or due to expression of thanksgiving to the Lord, but keeps within it profound theological motives that would useful to know, precisely in order to correctly understand, beyond every form of petty devotion while respectable, the deep content of catechesis inherent in this beautiful tradition that still stands, despite the changing times and social customs.

Step, we note that the offering of first fruits was renewed, always at Gaeta, in the famous "Party of Christ", ie the Corpus Christi parish at one time were held during the summer and have so much edification and spiritual elevation produced in many generations that have preceded us in the sign of faith. In particular, the processional cross, the massive introitante Eucharistic Procession, was artistically decorated with juicy vine harvests as soon as, the Offertory of the Solemn Mass, the altar is also wearing a colorful basket containing the first fruits of the season, genuine gift Our fertile countryside of the fertile sod, luxuriant in their exuberant polychromy, heady scent of bursting in the whirling wind that scatters around. Parents of Mary, the Saints really protect our gardens and crops, for the healthy general well-being and social progress.