Eagle River, Alaska

Antiochian Archdiocese

Saint John Orthodox Cathedral

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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

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M. Xenia Oleksa Thanks St. John's
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On Sunday November 30, Matushka Xenia and her family celebrated the memory of Fr. Michael Oleksa on the second anniversary of his falling asleep in the Lord. Memorial prayers were said at the end of Liturgy and their family provided a wonderful meal for all the parish at coffee hour. M. Xenia also presented gifts of thanks to some who especially helped her following her husband's death and small Icons of St. Olga to everyone in the parish In the picture Anastasia Oleksa and her mother present an Icon to Tim Mellor who offered many hours of assistance to help sort out Matushka's finances.

Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

Today, on Saint Andrew’s day, we our journey journey, a journey to Christmas, to Christ. Let us each think about the words of Jesus Christ to each of us, “Follow Me.” To follow means to give up the direction you were taking, to surrender to the lead of another person. When you follow someone, you don’t plan the route, you don’t set the goals. You let go being the leader of your own path and you take direction from someone else. This is what Jesus expected. But He also meant that they would follow His way of living. He was saying, “Do as I do. I know you have had your own way of living, but now I want you to learn to live like I am living. We aren’t going to be rich. We are going to live very simply. We are going to give up unrighteousness and live to please God. We are going to forgive those who hurt us. We are going to serve other people.” “Follow Me,” Jesus said. To do this they had to trust Him, to trust Him with their lives, their families, and their fortunes. But they did follow Him. They did not know where this would lead them. And He did not tell them either. To follow means to take one step at a time, and a lot of times that is as far as you can see. ” Fr. Marc Dunaway, November 30, 2025-

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"One Accord"

Excerpts from Christian writers Past and Present

Aslan turned to them and said: “You do not yet look so happy as I mean you to be.” Lucy said, “We’re so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.” “No fear of that,” said Aslan. “Have you not guessed?” Their hearts leaped, and a wild hope rose within them. “There was a real railway accident,” said Aslan softly. “Your father and mother and all of you are—as you used to call it in the Shadowlands— dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.” And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. - C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

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