Konnsache Fest- The Festival Of Harvest

                                                                                                                                            
  The Harvest Festival is celebrated all over the world in different ways. In Goa, the harvest festival is celebrated in almost all villages as a sign of gratitude of farmers with a healthy crop. Every year of the monsoon season, Salcete taluka's Raia village is the first village to celebrate the Harvest festival as in Konkani it called as Konnsachem Fest. Every year on the 5th August Konsache fest is celebrated. The parish priest cuts the sheaves{konsa} of rice harvest and sent not to the governor and bishop of Goa, but only to the neighbouring Rachol Seminary and the Kamakshi temple at Shiroda in Ponda taluka.
The highlight of feast mass is the blessings and cutting of the 'konsa'{sheaves} in the paddy fields. The parish priest blesses  the new harvest praying for all farmers and a good yield for their hard work. The mass ends with distribution of konsa for all devotees. Much faith is witnessed towards the Neves Saibinn as people of all communities attend  the Konnsache Fest. In keeping up with the tradition of village feast, a football match is held among the local clubs.
The Konnsache fest is also celebrated in the villages Taleigao, Aldona, and Divar during the monsoon with some unique customs.