Faith. Food. Fun. These words succinctly describe the focus of the festive five-day feast at St. Rocco Church, Glen Cove, that each summer honors the parish patron and celebrates the Italian-American traditions of its parishioners.

The self-proclaimed “Best Feast in the East” features special prayer services from midweek through the weekend and prepares enough food to feed the thousands of people who are drawn to the event every year. This past Sunday, the final day of the feast, parish pastor Father Daniel Nash, Can. Reg., was the main celebrant and homilist at a bilingual English-Italian Mass. The liturgy was followed by a more than two-hour religious procession through the neighborhood.