On May 8th, 2026 in Bayonne NJ, we will be celebrating BMT’s feast day weekend! This is the 99th year since BMT’s ascent into the “fullness of life in Heaven where she intercedes for us.”
At the March 18, 2026 Bayonne City Council meeting, the Council adopted a resolution naming her feast day May 8th every year “Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjaonvich, S.J. day” in the city! Thank you to Chairman LaPelusa and the Honorable City Council for giving her this great honor.
You can view my comments in support of the resolution at 36:26 in this video:
Here is a pdf of the full text of the resolution:
On her feast day Friday May 8th, 2026, her namesake Roman Catholic parish, Blessed Miriam Teresa Parish in Downtown Bayonne, they’ll be having two events.
The 9am Mass Intention will be “For a miracle leading to the canon-
ization of BMT.” Then at 6pm, they will be having a special Mass for BMT where they will celebrate the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation, with Archdiocese of Newark Bishop Emeritus Gregory Studerus presiding.
On Saturday May 9th, 2026, her home Byzantine Catholic parish, Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Church on 26th street in Bayonne, Father Bertha will be celebrating her feast day at 1:30pm with a Moleben prayer service, which is an intercessory prayer for health and blessings invoking Blessed Miriam Teresa’s intercession to God for healing, followed by veneration of Blessed Miriam Teresa’s Relics and anointing with Holy Oil (the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.) Then at 3pm they will be having Diving Liturgy and prayers for her canonization.
I am so happy that BMT prays for us in Bayonne. If you were to attend both the Friday feast day mass at 6pm at BMT Parish, and the Saturday Moleben at 1:30pm at St John’s Byzantine, you’d get the opportunity to observe & participate in most of the Sacraments of our Holy Mother Church: Baptism, Confirmation, Anointing of the Sick, Eucharist, and both churches offer Confessions on that Saturday as well, to round it all out. Plus, you’d get to participate in “both lungs” of the Catholic church, the Western & Eastern Catholic churches. Glory to Jesus Christ!
Thank you so much to Father Bertha at her Byzantine Parish and Father Philip at her namesake Roman Parish for planning these opportunities for us to pray and participate in the fullness of both lungs of the Catholic Church.
Here is the bulletin from BMT Parish for her feast day, isn’t this nice?!
Here is the text of the comments I made to Bayonne City Council in support of the BMT resolution: