St. John The Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church

09/01/2026

08/29/2026

Join us today at 1:30pm!

08/28/2026

Join us tomorrow Saturday August 29th for our devotion to Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich at 1:30pm and stay for the Divine Liturgy at 3pm!

08/28/2026

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08/26/2026

On Saturday, August 29th at St. John Byzantine Catholic Church, 15 East 26th St. Bayonne NJ, please
join us in our devotions to Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich. Everyone is invited!

1:30 PM: Intercessory Prayers for healing relics, Moleben, and anointing with oil, followed by the Divine Mercy Chaplet, Holy Rosary,
and Confessions

3:00 PM: Divine Liturgy

08/25/2026

Friends, in today’s Gospel (Matt 23:1-12), Jesus turns his sharp eye and withering critique on the many ways that religious leaders fall into corruption. What precisely is bothering Jesus? Some religious leaders get their kicks from burdening people, laying the law on them heavily, making demands that are terrible, exulting in their own moral superiority. At the core of Jesus’s program is a willingness to bear other people’s burdens, to help them carry their loads. And this applies to the moral life as well. If we lay the burden of God’s law on people, we must be willing, at the same time, to help them bear it. Another classic problem with religious people and especially religious leaders: they use the law and morality as a means of inflating the ego. The trouble is that this drug wears off rather quickly, and then we want more of it. We need a greater title, more respect, more recognition. What is Jesus’s recommendation for those caught in this dilemma? To be great is to be a servant: lowly, simple, often forgotten. Eschew marks of respect; don’t seek them. Be satisfied with doing your work, whatever it is, on behalf of God’s kingdom.

08/25/2026

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Join us this upcoming Saturday August 29th at 1:30pm for our monthly devotion to Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich and stay for our 3pm Divine Liturgy!

BLESSED MIRIAM TERESA DEMJANOVICH Birthday 26 March 2025