Eagle River, Alaska

Antiochian Archdiocese

Saint John Orthodox Cathedral

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St James House

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

  • Livestream St.John's Services

  • Lenten Calendar

  • Lenten Fasting Guidelines

  • Coffee Hour Info and Schedule

    Coffee Hour after Sunday Liturgy is an important time of fellowship. Please check the schedule in the link below to see when your group is assigned to bring snacks and also when you are to host. Thank you!
    Coffe Hour Groups - Spring 2024Coffe Hour Host Schedule - Spring 2024
  • Thursday Night Talks - 6:30pm Saint James House

    Fr. Marc, with Eric and Hannah, will host this time of discussion and casual conversation around the living room fireplace, about topics all Christians are challenged with in our modern world. We will approach these topics from the Orthodox perspective, but this doesn’t mean we will always come to perfect conclusions on every topic. Rather we will listen and learn from others and try to have an open mind about some things. The format will be to read a short something together followed by a discussion. Weekly articles can be found at the following link.
    Articles for Thursday Night Talks

Community Highlight

Orthodox Sunday Celebrates Icons
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At the end of the Divine Liturgy parishioners recited together a Confession of Faith proclaiming the proper use if Icons. We preach, worship and reverence Christ our true God. We also honor and venerate His saints as His true servants in writings, in thoughts, in sacrifices, and in Holy Icons.This is the Faith of the Apostles, this is the Faith of the Fathers this is the Faith of the Orthodox, this is the Faith which has established the Universe.

Sunday's Homily Excerpt -March 24, 2024 - Dn. Kevin Dougherty

You will also find the anchor of our Lord’s timeless truth in our Universal Divine Liturgy. From the very beginning, as recorded in the Book of Acts, the Church began its Eucharistic Liturgy just like today. There’s also the specific description of Divine Liturgy dated 138 A.D.! from Justin Martyr’s church document. As another Orthodox writer once explained — trying to capture the breadth of it all – the Church’s unbroken history of worship is so universal and timeless that, if you attended a current day Divine Liturgy in Alaska, Romania, Africa, anywhere — and then you traveled back in time over a thousand years ago to a Divine Liturgy worship service in in the early centuries — let’s say to Alexandria, Egypt (where St. Mark’s church is still there) or if you went to Antioch (where there’s still a church on Straight Street mentioned in the Book of Acts) — in all these worship services, yes there’ll be different languages — but you would still fully comprehend the SAME Eucharistic Liturgy and the same worship pattern. You would know where you are in a service and feel the same spirit of worship! This is the gift of the Universal Church that we celebrate today on Orthodoxy Sunday.-

"One Accord"

Excerpts from Christian writers Past and Present

“You gave birth and are a virgin, and in both you remain by nature inviolate. He Who is born makes new the laws of nature, and the womb brings forth without travail. When God so wills, the natural order is overcome; for He does whatever He wishes.” -- Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete.