We invite you to participate in our friendly reunions, every Sunday after the religious service. It is already a tradition
    for our church and the group of participants at the Holy Liturgy to enjoy the good Romanian food and desserts, prepared
    by our enthusiastic group of ladies in our “Women association”. Over the past year we became a more cohesive community,
    and it proved to be a real support especially for the new comers, not only in town but also in the country, who felt the
    comfort of knowing that there is really somebody that they can rely on. Beside the regular “agape”, the way that we like to
    call our Sunday’s potluck lunch reunions, we already planned a number of activities for this year. We started from the
    premise that there is something that is truly appreciated and mostly missed by every member of our community, and that
    is our traditional food. That’s why we have scheduled a number of culinary events around the major calendar religious
    holidays and celebrations of our church.     

          1. April 24th – The Palm Sunday (Sarbatoarea Floriilor).

      We will still be during the Lent and fasting on that day, but we’ll be allowed to eat fish. So we will prepare a meal
    based exclusively on fish courses.

     2. May 15th – The Spring Festival.

         We decided to celebrate “Pastile” (Easter) with some delay, just not to interfere with everybody’s plans for spending
    the holidays with their families.
    We also celebrate 4 years since our church was consecrated on May 25th, 2001. It will be a “lamb day”, all the courses
    will be based on lamb, like “bors de miel”, “grilled pastrami (pastrama de miel la gratar)”, “drob”, oven roast
    (friptura la cuptor), and more. Uuuuuummmm, delicious……
   
          3. August 21st – The 10th year celebration since our church was established in Pittsburgh, on August 15th, 1995.

        It is an important celebration for us and we plan to invite high hierarchs from the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate
     of America and other guests  from out-of-town. It will not be just a Romanian way of celebrating, we will organize a
     reception at the “Rocky's II” banquet hall, close to our church.

          4. End of September – The Romanian Food Festival.

         This year it will be the 9th  festival, and we are extremely encouraged by the success in the past years. It proved to
    be not only a way to enjoy the food and the company, but an effective way to allow other folks, especially the
    Americans of other ethnic backgrounds, to know us better, as a people, to get to know our traditions and customs.
    And more, it is the only way to let the participants find out and learn more about our Christian Orthodox religion,
    which is not one of the well known religions in the US.

          5. December 4th - the celebration of our patron saint, St Andrew the Apostle (hramul bisericii).

        It is an important celebration for our church, and again, an excellent opportunity for us to invite people from outside
     our community to experience Romanian traditions and hospitality.

          6. Christmas – Carols and Christmas songs.

        Beside Easter, the most important religious celebration of the Christianity. We invite everybody to taste our
    delicious “sarmale”, “racitura (piftie)”, “salata beuf” and many more. We invite you to join us on any of these dates
    but, most importantly, we encourage you to come to our church every Sunday, to be part of the mystery offered to us
    by our Lord thru the “Last Supper”. That is the true and the most important thing that keeps us together.