Eagle River, Alaska

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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.
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Bishop John Elevates the Cross
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Bishop John from the Diocese of New England visited Saint John's from September 11-15. The Feast of the Elevation of the Holy Cross was celebrated on Sunday with a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy.'Before Your Cross we bow down, O Master, and Your holy resurrection we glorify!'

Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

At the fall “by the envy of the devil death entered the world.” When this happened, human beings died and corruption prevailed against them. What was God to do? This is where love comes in, a love which the evil one could not anticipate. Athanasius writes, “In no other way could the corruption of humans be undone except by the Word of God Himself offering the temple of His own body as a substitute for all.”” Dn. Joseph Ray, September 7, 2025-

"One Accord"

Excerpts from Christian writers Past and Present

If the first and lowest operation of pain shatters the illusion that all is well, the second shatters the illusion that what we have, whether good or bad in itself, is our own and enough for us. Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us. We ‘have all we want’ is a terrible saying when ‘all’ does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St Augustine says somewhere, ‘God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full—there’s nowhere for Him to put it.’ Or as a friend of mine said, ‘We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to use it.’ Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him. Yet we will not seek it in Him as long as he leaves us any other resort where it can even plausibly be looked for. While what we call ‘our own life’ remains agreeable we will not surrender it to Him. What then can God do in our interests but make ‘our own life’ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible source of false happiness?. - C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain