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

Parish Happenings

Community Highlight

Moose on Lawn
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A young bull moose made several appearances the last few days. School children playing on the lawn run for the Cathedral porch. This day, October 7, was a beautiful fall day with temperatures in the upper 50's.

Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

If the Church is to exist in the world as a “holy nation,” the people of God, a city set on a hill, an outpost of the kingdom of God, it must be supported. That support does not come from a government. It does not come from anywhere for off. It comes from us gathered right here. The tradition of money given to us in the Scriptures is to support the work of the Kingdom of God by “tithing,” by giving one tenth of what you earn to support the Church. The Church, in turn, uses this money to support its needs, to carry out its ministries, to help the poor, to take care of its own members in need. In this Parish the Church’s monies have been used carefully. They are overseen by a financial committee and the Parish Council, and God has blessed us with many things that we have to serve Him. Tithing, giving one tenth is the standard. But this is not the end. We are to be generous with all the money we have, to serve others in our own way. There is little virtue in just squirreling away as much money as we can. Some feel they have no extra, but each person must give something, even if it is the two pennies that the widow in the Gospels gave. What we cannot do is give nothing.”” Fr. Marc Dunaway, October 5, 2025-

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"One Accord"

Excerpts from Christian writers Past and Present

Metropolitan John Zizioulas avoided the danger of our having our gas fixed on a past able to make us prisoners, prisoners above all of old errors, of failed attempts, through accumulating negative junk, through encouraging the implanting of mistrust. We all suffer the negativity of looking backwards, and the sincere search for the unity of all Christians suffers from this in a particular way. The value of our traditions is to open up the path, and if instead they close it, if they hold us back, that means that we ar mistaken in the way we interpret them, prisoners of fear, attached to our sense of security, with the risk of transforming faith into ideology and mummifying the truth that in Christ is always life and way (John 14:6), path of peace, bread of communion, source of unity. - Pope Francis in the Forward to Met. John Zizioulas's book, 'Remembering the Future.'

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