Welcome!

Here, gathered around Most Rev. Joseph Perry, the vicar of our bishop, Cardinal George, the people of St. Rocco welcome you to our website.  As the successor to San Rocco Parish, this Oratory sustains the community that is here, Sunday after Sunday.  We welcome you online and in person, by email and by letter, by word and by prayer.

Father Michael Gilligan, Rector

Please note that the mailing address of San Rocco Oratory is 16565 State Street, South Holland, Illinois 60743.  That's where the rectory is located, not the church, which remains in Chicago Heights.  (A "rectory" is the place where the "rector" is to be found.)

San Rocco Oratory now has an online photo directory.  You can go through the photos and other data at home, right from your monitor.  Just click on the link below, San Rocco Online Directory.  You will then see three fields to fill in.  In the first field, Username, type in the word "member," without quotation marks.  In the second field, type in the password which a member of the Oratory has given you; this password is announced at Sunday Mass and will, now and again, be in the Sunday bulletin.  (Note that the password is all in lower-case letters, with no quotation marks.)  In the third field, enter the security code as it appears before you.  Then, click on the "Login" button on the left.  That's it!

San Rocco Online Directory

How to Get to St. Rocco:

To drive here from the north, say, from the Tri-State Expressway (I-294), exit southbound at Halsted.  Go south to Lincoln Highway, which in Chicago Heights is 14th Street.  At the intersection, turn east (left) and proceed under the viaduct.  Immediately after the viaduct, at the light, turn south (right) onto East End Avenue.  Continue south on East End for one mile until you come to 22nd Street.  There, turn east (left) and continue on 22nd for about half a mile.  San Rocco Oratory is a white building, a small church, with a steeple, set back from the north side of 22nd Street, on the left.  As of March, 2008, go to the St. Anthony Hall, at the east end of the parking lot; all services are held there for the time being, because of the fire damage in the church building.  We hope to have our first Mass in the restored church building on Pentecost Sunday, May 11, 2008.  At 6 p.m., the evening before, on May 10, we will celebrate Vespers with Bishop Perry; this will be our first liturgy in the restored church building.  There will be a brief reception in the hall afterwards.

The address is 315 East 22nd Street, Chicago Heights, IL 60411; that's west of State Street.  You can reach Father Gilligan, the Rector, at (708) 331-5485.  Our fax number is (708) 331-5484.  Our e-mail address is acp@acpress.org. 

To drive here from the east, say from the Calumet Expressway, exit westbound at Lincoln Highway.   Go west on Lincoln Highway to State Street.  There, turn south (left), and continue to 22nd Street, right after the second set of railroad tracks.  If you're going too fast, it's easy to miss the turn.  Go west (right) to 315 East 22nd.  The oratory is a white building, a small church, with a steeple, set back from the north side of the street, on the right.

Click here to see a street map, online, to find San Rocco Oratory.

Here's another link for a map from Map Muse!