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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Veneration of the Cross in Lent
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This wooden Cross was made by Bill Osborne and the ivory medallions were donated and carved by Keith Haley. The small brass Cross in the center was donated by Natalie Hartman. She received this small Cross from her Greek grandmother who had received it from a bishop in Greece as gift. Natalie was told by her grandmother that under its cover there was a relic of the true Cross found by Constantine's mother Helen.

Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

The journey of Lent is long. Forgiveness Sunday Vespers ushers us into Lent with expectation. The services of the first week, for those who participate in them, urge us on our way. We are ready to embrace the fast and have hopes for spiritual efforts we intend to make. Inevitably, though, the responsibilities and difficulties of daily life come at us again. Unforeseen events upend our expectations. Maybe we are even disappointed how things are going. And so the Church at the mid-point of Lent has us bring the Cross into the center of the Church as a reminder that the Christian life calls us to struggle, effort, endurance. We hear this plainly in the Gospel reading today. The Lord said: 'If anyone wishes to come after me [follow Me], let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.'” - Fr. Marc, March 15, 2026-

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"One Accord"

Excerpts from Christian writers Past and Present

But we are able to see Christ’s inexpressible love for man not only from the cross itself but also from the words which He spoke while upon the cross. At the very time when He was nailed and they were mocking Him, deriding Him and spitting upon Him, He said: 'Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do' (Luke 23:34)… At the same time that they were saying, 'If You are the Son of God save Yourself,' He was accomplishing everything necessary to save these same ones who were reproaching Him. …He did forgive them, if they wished to repent, because if He had not forgiven them this sin, Paul would not have become an apostle; if He had not forgiven them this sin, the three thousand and the five thousand, and the many other thousands, would not have immediately believed. - Saint John Chrysostom.

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