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

Community Highlight

Fr Andrew from Spruce Island at Saint James House
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Fr. Andrew is the superior at St. Archangel Michael Skete on Spruce Island. On Wednesday evening the men's reading group hosted a gathering for Fr. Andrew to talk about Fundamentals of Orthodox Christian life. A large crowd overflowed into the small dining room as Fr. Andrew talked about forgiveness, not blaming others, and learning from suffering that God allows. He then took questions for another hour.'There is no amount of almsgiving that can take away unwillingness to forgive' Elder Sampson.

Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

There is a Christian culture about money and material possessions that calls us to give freely and liberally of our money and our possessions to those have less or are in need and to promote the goodness of God in the world. We do not strive to accumulate wealth; rather we strive to be generous. We are not stingy when people ask for help or time; rather we try to say “yes” as much as we can. We are not living for long and luxurious retirement years; rather we are living for an indescribably greater glory in God’s Kingdom to come. We don’t need a mansion in this life; rather we just need a simple home, to have our needs met, plus some leftover to share with others. We have a mansion in heaven. We are not obsessed with coming out on top or things always being fair in life; rather we are called imitate Christ who gave His life for us.” - Fr. Marc Dunaway, October 4, 2026-

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"One Accord"

Excerpts from Christian writers Past and Present

“For the Orthodox tradition Adam’s original sin affects the human race in its entirety… The doctrine of original sin means that we are born into an environment where it is easy to do evil and hard to do good; easy to hurt others, and hard to heal their wounds; easy to arouse men’s suspicions, and hard to win their trust. It means that we are each of us conditioned by the solidarity of the human race in its accumulated wrongdoing and wrong-thinking, and hence worn’-being. And to this accumulation of wrong we have ourselves added by our won deliberate acts of sin. The gulf grows wider.” The Orthodox Way, by Bp Kallistos Ware, page 80,81

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