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All Saints of Alaska Orthodox Church meets at 5363 Hamsterly Road, just off the Pat Bay Highway across from Elk Lake, just a 10-minute drive north of Victoria.

All Saints of Alaska

By Car:

Coming (north) from Victoria, 10 minutes from the city limits:

Highway 17A North starts as Blanshard Street in Victoria. Drive north, past the city limits, past the exit to Royal Oak, until Elk Lake is coming up on your left. Right after the Cordova Bay Road intersection is a sign for the truck weigh scales ahead. Turn in at the weigh scales, and you will see the church directly ahead. There is parking both at the front and at the rear of the church.

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Our Service Schedule

Visit our online events calendar for further information about these and other events in the church and community events of interest.

Coming up: Pascha!

THE REGULAR SERVICES

  • Divine Liturgy - Sundays @ 10am
  • Great Vespers - Saturdays @ 6pm

THE FESTAL SERVICES

  • Festal Liturgies - 6 am
  • Festal Vespers - 7 pm
  • See the events calendar for details

 

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Contact Us

All Saints of Alaska Orthodox Church

5363 Patricia Bay Highway

Victoria, BC  Canada

Clergy:

To send an email, just click on the name. Thank you.

Please note: As of Sept 1, 2011, we have a new Rector: Fr Larry Reinheimer, formerly of St. Peter the Aleut Orthodox Church in Calgary, Alberta. More contact information coming soon. Welcome Father Larry and Matuschka Myra!

Dcn. Kevin Miller

Iesus Christos Nika
Prayer Book Coordinator:
Valla Eiriksson
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Our Community

The human being is a communal being. God is community - the perfect community of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - and we, having been made in His image, are made to live in community.

Love, in all genuine expressions, needs another to be love. The church, as a body, as an ecclesia, is the restored communion of people, not just with God through His Son, Jesus Christ, but also with each other in Jesus Christ. The Church is community, restored and revealing the community of the Godhead. The Church is the sacrament of community.

For these reasons and many more, All Saints takes community life very seriously. The open Gospel in the icon of Christ on our iconostasis reads, "You did not choose me, but I chose you, that you might go and bear fruit "  We might think that we chose a community, for this or that reason, but in reality God has chosen us to live within and learn to love the community in which He has placed us.

We believe that community should first and foremost we be a worshipping body, and should, as importantly, be a studying one. But a really, really important ingredient of any Orthodox community life (one which is generally overlooked) must be simple fun. We laugh, and sing, play games and spend time together. Friendship, one of the four Greek loves (and the most important), is born from this fun, and matures in the worship and Paradosis also inherent in our communal life.

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The Orthodox Prayer Book
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All Saints of Alaska - The Orthodox Prayer Book

Prayer Book: In Accordance with the Tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Our church published a unique prayer book in the Fall of 2006. The prayer book is for sale through our online order form or if you have a pre-sale inquiry, by email. The prayer book was painstakingly assembled over three years, and is published to the highest design standards.

We are willing to offer church bookstores a very reasonable discount, and they are encouraged to contact us through the online order form or direct email to Valla Eiriksson, the Prayer Book Coordinator.

Please note: We now have a distributor in the United States for our printed edition, so if you are in the United States or its territories, please contact the Bookstore at the Monastery of St. John of San Francisco, in Manton, California.

We now offer more payment options.

1. For print editions, we use PayPal's secure email invoicing system, so your order can be shipped within 48 hours if you pay via our PayPal email invoice. You do not need to have a PayPal account to pay by this method.

The process is simple and secure. Your completed online order form is automatically emailed to the Prayer Book Coordinator, and she initiates the PayPal email payment request. When you receive the email from PayPal (please check your junk folder if it doesn't arrive in your inbox!), it will contain instructions for making the payment, and take you directly to our secure PayPal account area.

2. For the digital editions, payment is made online and your chosen format is emailed to you within 24 hours.

 

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PRAYER BOOK: IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
TRADITION OF THE EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH

Price per copy: $32.95 CDN plus $10 shipping/handling
Contact us for Church Bookstore Discount

388 Pages, size: approx 4-1/2"w x 7-1/4" h
Colour, with icons
Durable, acid-free paper; sturdy cover
Bound in Paperback or Coil Spine

CONTENTS:

  • Morning Prayers
  • Evening Prayers
  • Prayers for Various Occasions
  • The Holy Scriptures - daily reading plan
  • Hymns for the Weekly Cycle
  • Hymns for the Festal Cycle
  • Preparation for Holy Confession
  • Preparation for Holy Communion
  • Thanksgiving for Holy Communion
  • Service for one absent on the Lord’s Day
  • Supplication to the Holy Theotokos
  • Akathist to the Sweetest Lord Jesus
  • Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos
  • Akathist: Glory to God for All Things
  • The Holy Fathers on Prayer (100 pages of quotes)
  • Intercessions (blank pages with space for living or departed

SAMPLE:

You can view a sample of the Prayer Book. The file below is in Adobe PDF format, and is from the Revised Second Edition. The sample contains the chapter: Service for Sunday Absence. Just click on the image below.

Orthodox Prayer Book

 

To place an order, please click on Order Form here or in the Main Menu under Orthodox Prayer Book. For the Digital Edition, please click here.
 

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