Eagle River, Alaska

Antiochian Archdiocese

Saint John Orthodox Cathedral

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Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

Saint John’s community sits at the base of the Chugach mountains in Eagle River, Alaska. It is a parish in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
We invite you to join us in our journey to know God and to serve our neighbors within the tradition of Orthodox Christianity.
Sunday Divine Liturgy - 10:00am
Saturday Vespers - 7:15pm

Parish Happenings

Community Highlight

Thanksgiving Food Distribution
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Deacon Kevin Dougherty gives instructions to 5th-7th grade students from Saint John's School to organize food distribution to families in Eagle River who need a boost for Thanksgiving day food. Many Churches in Eagle River collect this food to be distributed on the Monday before Thanksgiving. St. John's usually contributes boxes of stuffing as well as labor for the distribution.

Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

Three Tools the Church gives us during Advent - Fasting helps us orient our priorities. It tells us life is not just about consuming. It is about remembering what counts. Prayer helps us remember God, Who is the source of our life and He Who loves us. It turns our heart toward God and away from our problems. Almsgiving reminds us that people matter and that we are called to help other people, especially those who are in need or who are suffering. It teaches us the heavenly way to live is by caring for one another. ” Fr. Marc Dunaway, November 16, 2025-

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"One Accord"

Excerpts from Christian writers Past and Present

The ultimate destiny to which we are summoned, is nothing less than our theosis: our deification and transformation by the Holy Spirit into members of the body of Christ, joined in the Son to the Father, whereby we become true partakers of the divine nature. In the words of St. Athanasius: 'The Son of God became human so that we might become divine.' But, then, this must be a corporate destiny, as it is only through our participation in the community of Christ's body that any of us, as a unique object of divine love, can enter into full union with God. Our spiritual lives, therefore, cannot fail also to be social lives. - For the Life of the World - Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church, Introduction, paragraph 3

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