Manfrotto By Bogen Imaging 190xdb

2010

Nel presepe di quest'anno costruito in sette serate, abbiamo voluto racchiudere alcune semplici idee, la cui spiegazione la diamo di seguito.

Nelle foto: I fedeli alla fine della celebrazione rendono omaggio al Re dei re.

P. Emmanuel durante la celebrazione della messa di mezzanotte, incensa il bambino appena posto nel presepio.

I Magi, Gaspare, Melchiorre e Baldassarre in cammino verso la grotta.

L'annuncio dell'arcangelo Gabriele ai pastori.
Nel presepio quest'anno siamo riusciti anche a rappresentare il cielo stellato del nostro emisfero, con la via lattea, ed una cometa che lo attraversa, al di sopra dei Magi, visibile solo visitando il presepe in chiesa la sera.

Le fonti storiche del presepe sono i Vangeli di Matteo e Luca: sono raccontata la nascita di Gesù, l'annuncio ai pastori e l'arrivo dei Re Magi. I Vangeli apocrifi arricchirono di particolari la narrazione della Natività ed infine Origene, nel III secolo, aggiunse la presenza del bue e dell'asinello all'interno della stalla. Questi sono i primi scenari che si hanno della Natività e dell'Epifania.
Secondo la tradizione San Francisco was to design the crib. The same, of the Christmas Eve 1223. staged at a crude representation of the original scene of Bethlehem, complete with a farm family that puts the child in the hay of the manger, surrounded by an ox and an ass real, and pastors. Even today in this village throughout the year there is an exhibition of cribs famous. The most reliable is instead one that sees the crib as the result of combination of traditions, costumes and performances within the sacred places of worship.
Historically, it was Pope Honorius IV in 1283 to commission the construction of the first nativity scene: the filmmaker was Arnolfo di Cambio. T his splendid work of today are only five statues. However, it was the eighteenth century to be the period in which the crib had a fundamental role: Naples at that time was the UK's capital and center of culture, art, philosophy and economics. Despite the widespread Enlightenment in Naples raised the art of the Nativity: the representation is, however, is very secularized and sees the characters were strangers to the sacred scene.

The symbols represented in the crib

It 's the manger that gives its name to the crib: his own form is a message that has two emphases. The first and oldest is the prophecy of the Passion, with allusion to death, and results in troughs that are explicitly tombs or altars, and the second, which introduce Figures of the donkey and the ox, is the prophecy that all men in Jesus will find the food of true life, the bread of heaven. For others, the straw itself, alluding to the grain, is a sign of the Eucharist.
This crib were also included other symbols. The background
desert, is the dryness of the human heart, with its indifference to the bridge: the union between heaven and earth in the salvation brought by the Child and the water, source of life and sacramental signs: that restores color and life to the desert and is reborn as new creatures.

were used to build 75 pounds of plaster, over thirty bags of jute, acrylic paint, over a hundred sheets of paper 1 meter, 250 meters of electric cable, 8 spots to create the morning, day, sunset and night, a myriad of other materials and hundreds of pastors. The dimensions are 4 feet wide, 7 feet deep, 2.5 high.

Thanks for setting Raphael Augusto Colucci and his father Lorenzo, with the help of Aegisthus Monaco, Leonardo Di Feo, Emma Manganaro, Antonio Pisacreta, Lorenzo Del Percio, Giancarlo Meo and patience and the teachings of Ferdinand Petito.

Merry Christmas