June
St. Faustina Kowalska Parish
Nanticoke
2025 Annual Homecoming Festival
Friday June 20 & Saturday June 21
2025 Annual Homecoming Festival
Ethnic Foods, Live Music, Games,
Chinese Auction & Children’s Amusements
Friday & Saturday
June 20 & 21
Friday, June 20, 2025
5:00 P.M. – 11:00P.M.
Entertainment: Lost at the Rodeo
Saturday, June 21, 2025
4:00 P.M. – Mass @ Grove
Music by: Joe Stanky and the Cadets
5:00 P.M. – 11:00P.M.
Entertainment: Lance Thomas Band
St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church Rib Bar-B-Que
320 Mifflin Ave., Scranton,
St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church Annual Rib Bar-B-Que. Sunday, June 29 from 11am to 4pm at St. Mary’s Center, 320 Mifflin Ave., Scranton. Dinner $18. Dine in or take out. Raffles & Bake Sale. PreSales recommended. Tickets at the door until sold out.
Info: 570-343-5151
July
NATIVITY OF OUR LORD PARISH, Duryea, invites you to their annual PICNIC on the Parish Grounds at Holy Rosary Church and School, 127 Stephenson Street, Duryea
Friday, July 11, 5:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 12, 5:00-11:00 p. m.
Live Entertainment: CC Music Band on Friday, playing from 6:00-10:00pm; and
The Sperrazza Band reunion on Saturday, playing from 7:00-11:00pm.
Something for Everyone! Plenty of tent seating!!!
Enjoy homemade foods, Polish favorites, wings and pizza, and more!
Refresh yourself at our bar or have an ice cream float! Try your luck at our Cash Bingo, or at any of our games of chance – you could go home a winner! Homemade baked goods, desserts, and an Indoor Flea Market!
Parking? No problem…with the help of the Duryea VFW Post 1227 also on Stephenson Street, you can take our convenient shuttle bus right to the picnic entrance! We hope to see you there!
Come Join Us – Enjoy and Have Fun!
Early Bird Flea Market opens Thursday, July 10, from 5:30-8:30 pm In the Holy Rosary School Auditorium. Many items to choose from: small furniture, vintage decorations, glassware, vinyl records, books, small appliances, gadgets, yard items, and much, much more!!!!
The Good Shepherd Festival is the largest outdoor church festival in the Hazleton area. Live bands including: North of 40 and Kartune. The festival features all of your favorite foods including: chicken fingers, haluski, halupki, sausage and peppers, potato pancakes, pierogies, pulled pork, steak hoagies, funnel cakes, beer and wine coolers.
July 11, 12, 13
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish
Wyalusing PA
Annual Summer Picnic
Sunday, July 13, 2025 from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Food – Sausage with Peppers, Onions & Spaghetti Sauce, Meatball Subs, Macaroni Salad, Delicious Pies
Cash Raffle, Basket Raffles, Happy Wagon Raffle
Games – Face Painting, Soccer, Corn Hole
Saint Eulalia Parish, Roaring Brook Township
August
Our Lady of Victory Parish, Tannersville
St. John the Evangelist
Pittston
Summer Fest ’25
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, August 7, 8, and 9 from 5:00-10:00 PM
Description of Event
Saint John the Evangelist Parish Summer Fest ’25 will be held Thursday, August 7 through Saturday, August 9 from 5:00-10:00 PM each evening on the grounds of St. John the Evangelist Church, 35 William Street, Pittston, and in the Msgr. Bendik Pastoral Center. Featured entertainment this year will include The Taxmen on Thursday, Joe Stanky and the Cadets on Friday, and Flaxy Morgan on Saturday. Fun and food for all, with delicious foods, variety booths, cash bingo, children’s games, and raffles!
St John the Baptist
Larksville
St John’s Picnic
August 8, 9, 10
Description of Event
Our Picnic returns with over 40,000 homemade pierogies with other great foods, games for all ages, theme baskets, live entertainment & more!
Saint Elizabeth Parish, Bear Creek
September
Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish, Elkland
Our Lady of the Abingtons
Dalton
Fall Festival
September 13 from 5pm to 10pm & September 14 from 12pm to 6pm
The festivities include Pork dinner on Saturday, Chicken Dinner on Sunday along with other foods, Music, Basket Raffle, Dining Out, Bake Stand, White Elephant sale and Silent Auction among other festivities.
October
Saint Patrick
Nicholson
Fall Festival
October 5 from 12pm to 4pm
The Festivities include Pork Loin dinner with dessert along with other foods, soups, pastries, and Basket Raffle.