Goa: Fields in Goa are green & ready for harvest. The harvesting season starts with a unique festival called "Konsan Feast".
The festival is celebrated in the village of Raia, seven kilometres away from Margao.
The church father cuts the first corn of the season after religious mass which is offered to the church.
Then people harvest the corn which is taken as a blessing of God and a sign of prosperity.
Roque Dias, a local in the town, says: "This corn, blessed by the priest, is the first corn of this village. It brings blessings from God, and that is the reason perhaps these villagers keep this corn for a year."
Leoni D'silva explains how irrespective of religion people of all communities come together to celebrate this festival.
Leoni says, "Prople from all communities, from all villages, irrespective of the religion, come to take the corn, the first corn from the priest, as this is the first food blessed by the priest and we offer the first food to God. Since it is blessed, the blessing comes in our home."
Church father Supriano D'silva says the festival is 400 years old. Father D'silva says of the festival: "In Goa it was celebrated from 1576. In 1576 when the first church was built, it was dedicated to the lady of stones.
The first harvest of corn of the season is offered to God - the corn which brings blessings, the corn which brings prosperity.
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