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

Rolling into Summer
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Long awaited warm and sunny days see summer in full swing. A successful Day Camp, organized by Cara Stallman and Jessica Kies, had 60 children enrolled to learn about Alaska saints. The Summer Youth Corps is being managed by Oscar Medders and the workers are Eric, Nick, Logan and Christian. Saint John's School Summer program, which will run for 8 weeks, is managed by Laura Sasala, assisted by Kathleen Cooley and Michelle Mellor.

Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

In the Great Entrance the clergy carry the wine and bread from the table where they have been prepared, through the assembled faithful, and then through the holy doors to the altar. It is not grapes and wheat that the clergy carry, but rather an offering that has been transformed by the love and work of human hands into the wine and bread that will become Holy Communion. In these gifts is a picture of us offering our own lives to God. When we reach out to touch the vestments of the priest as he passes by, therefore, we should not imagine the Gospel scene of the woman who touched the garment of Christ’s robe and was healed, but rather we can identify our own life joining this procession, once again giving our lives to God. Touching the vestment we can say quietly every time, ‘To God, my life!’”.” - Fr. Marc Dunaway, June 14, 2026-

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"One Accord"

Excerpts from Christian writers Past and Present

“Christians are permitted, and in fact obliged, to act as a prophetic presence in the world, speaking not only to the closed company of the baptized but to the whole of creation, recalling human beings everywhere to the decrees written into their very nature, and summoning them to the sanctifying labor of justice and mercy.”. - FLOW Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church, Introduction, Sec 7.

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