A Look at the 2019 Festa di San Rocco in Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania

Window Shrine to San Rocco
Photos courtesy of Metropolitan Vittorio Cianca

On Sunday, August 25th, nearly one hundred members of the Western Orthodox Church of Pennsylvania came together to celebrate the Feast of San Rocco. Rotating annually between four of the Keystone State’s Western Orthodox parishes (St. Peter and Paul in Brentwood; Mission of the Holy Trinity in Newcastle; and House of the Mother of God in Oil City) this year’s celebration was held at Casa di Santa Magi in Mount Oliver, Pittsburgh.

Divine Liturgy with blessing with holy oil was celebrated by Bishop Vittorio Cianca.

Afterward, partygoers enjoyed a delightful day of fellowship, replete with Calabrese music, dance and delicious delicacies, including some homemade wine and limoncello. The evening concluded with a concert on the parish grounds. Viva San Rocco!

Celebrating Divine Liturgy at Casa di Santa Magi

(Above & below) Shots of people coming and going throughout the day eating pasta and drinking homemade wine and limoncello

(L) Dancing the Tarantella. (R) Princess Filamenia

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The Formal Divine Liturgy was celebrated earlier by Bishop Vittorio Cianca at the Mission of the Holy Trinity in Newcastle, PA.

Divine Liturgy was celebrated by Bishop Cianca

Committee heads: (L-R) Mother Reparata, Monk Abbot Ferruccio,
Bishop Cianca, Lori and Tom