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Tuesday 7/7/20, 8:00 a.m. Daily Mass: Tuesday in the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time in the box to the lower left below the slide show. Please refresh this page within five [5] minutes of the start time and click the [>] to begin the live broadcast or to replay a completed broadcast.
Due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, all parish facilities are closed until further notice. If you wish to visit with a staff member, please call or send an email first.
PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there, and unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You.
Amen.
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Today's Readings
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Reading 1 Hos 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22Responsorial Psalm 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9Gospel Mt 9:18-26
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We offer our prayers..
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Parish DOCUMENTS
- Message from Fr. Mark - 4 July 2020
- FORMED-what's good to watch and read-July 2020
- Statement from Bishop Nickless - 15 June 2020
- Statement on Racism and Violence - Bishop Nickless - 5 June 2020
- Reopening Parishes Announcement - 14 June 2020
- REOPENING DIRECTIVES-CCOCH - 30 May 2020
- REOPENING DIRECTIVES-ADDENDUM-CCOCH - 19 June 2020
- Resuming Public Mass with Communion Protocols - Diocese of Sioux City 14 May 2020
- Statement from Bishop Nickless - 8 May 2020
- Iowa Bishops Joint Statement - 28 April 2020
- Coronavirus Guidance - 27 April 2020
- Letter to the Faithful - Pope Francis - 25 April 2020
- Earth Day 2020 - Sr. Janice Hoffmann, OSF [4/22/2020]
- Laudato Si - Pope Francis [5/24/2015]
- Spiritual Communion Prayer Booklet
- Using Formed.org
- Tips for Working Remotely
- Why Cancelling Public Mass is the Right Spiritual Decision for the Faithful - 3/19/20
- Closing of Parishes Announcement - revised 3/19/2020 [Bishop Nickless]
- PARISH REGISTRATION FORM
- ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SANCTUARY CRUCIFIX
- Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship [USCCB]
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JOB OPENING
JOB OPENING: Director of Religious Education for Immaculate Conception Parish beginning June 1. Job description, full ad, and application form available on the parish website under ABOUT/JOB OPENINGS. -
Activities/Events
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Tuesday, July 7, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AMDaily Mass and ONLINE due to the COVID-19 pandemicRead More
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Wednesday, July 8, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AMDaily Mass-ONLINE ONLY due to the COVID-19 pandemicRead More
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Thursday, July 9, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AMDaily Mass and ONLINE due to the COVID-19 pandemicRead More
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Friday, July 10, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AMDaily Mass-ONLINE ONLY due to the COVID-19 pandemicRead More
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Saturday, July 11, 5:00 PM - 5:30 PMSunday Mass [Vigil] with COVID restrictions and ONLINE on the home page of this websiteRead More
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Vatican YouTube
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Catholic News Service
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Sunday Mass: Sunday July 5, 2020 – Sunday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time
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today's RESPONSORIAL PSAlM
Sunday Mass: Sunday July 5, 2020 – Sunday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time
I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. [Psalm 145:1]
[I hope the sound quality is okay as I am using the microphone on the laptop. The acoustics in the church building can hinder the sound quality on the live streaming of this Mass. An external microphone has been ordered which ought to help, when it arrives.-Fr. Mark]
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News
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July 2Died: Wednesday 1 July 2020; Funeral: Wednesday 8 July 2020, 10:30 a.m. at Mount Calvary Cemetery - Cherokee, Iowa with social/physical distancing and face masksRead More
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June 10
In the past, high school youth from our parishes attended a Steubenville Youth Conference. This summer, due to COVID-19, these conferences have been cancelled. Thus, tens of thousands of people who normally attend to encounter the hope and love of Christ at Steubenville Conferences across North America, including from many parishes like ours in the Diocese of Sioux City, are not able to attend in person. Everyone is invited to experience hope alive at their very first virtual conference, Steubenville Live! July 17-18. Enjoy a virtual event like no other...Read More -
April 5Given that many of you are taking the wise guidance of the authorities and staying at home as much as possible, I would like to share with you an important teaching of the church regarding going to confession. “Where the individual faithful find themselves in the painful impossibility of receiving sacramental absolution, it should be remembered that perfect contrition, coming from the love of God, beloved above all things, expressed by a sincere request for forgiveness (that which the penitent is at present able to express) and accompanied by votum confessionis, that is, by the firm resolution to have recourse, as soon as possible, to sacramental confession, obtains forgiveness of sins, even mortal ones (cf. CCC, no. 1452).”Read More
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March 28
Because of the coronavirus emergency, eBreviary.com has created a temporary web page offering a printable prayer PDF for the current hour every day. Click the title above or the photo to go to their website and pray the current hour of the day that is prayed by priests, deacons, and religious each day.Read More -
January 11is a Catholic website which has hundreds of good Catholic video and audio programs, movies, and books easily on a computer, laptop, or smart phone at any hour of the day [even now in the Immaculate Conception parish hall and school building-now with wifi connection]. Our parishes have subscribed thank you to your DAA-Together As One donations. You may sign up by:...Read More
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Together As One
Together as One, Our Diocesan Annual Appeal offers us an opportunity to come together and support our parishes, our faith, our future, and our children’s future. Our annual appeal offers us all a way to come together and support many important programs:
- Adult and youth conferences and retreats
- Summer camps for our youth
- Marriage preparation programming
- Faith Formation programs
Click on logo on right to go to the Diocesan website to give online/electronically!!>>>>>>
DAA: TOGETHER AS ONE progress report ICC OLGC GOAL: $41,803.00 $9,056.00 $ PLEDGED: $30,912.50 $7,767.25 $ GIVEN: $30,057.50 $7,687.25 PROGRESS TO $ GOAL: 73.95% 85.77% PLEDGE CARDS NEEDED: 453 105 PLEDGE CARDS RETURNED: 236 68 PROGRESS TO PLEDGE CARD GOAL: 52.10% 54.76%% -
CHRISTIAN ACTION PANTRY (cap)
CAP is a food pantry available to residents of Cherokee County. It is open Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Local community volunteers and donations support this ministry to serve the community and feed the hungry in our community. It is located in the basement of the IC rectory. SOCIAL DISTANCING RESTRICTIONS ARE IN PLACE AT THIS TIME DUE TO COVID-19. FOOD REQUESTS WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE CAR OF THE RECEPIENTS. NO WALK-UPS OR WALK-INS ARE ALLOWED. ONLY DRIVE-UP. PLEASE BE PATIENT DURING THIS TIME.
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Maryhill
MARYHILL: The Shrine Tower at Maryhill [975 540th Street, Cherokee] is normally open from around Easter Sunday until the beginning of winter. The walk-around Rosary area is available for devotional visits all year. THE SHRINE TOWER AND SHELTER HOUSE ARE CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO COVID-19. In addition, these areas will not be serviced as fully as usual. Prime care will be given to the cemetery graves and family remembrances for Memorial Day.
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RCIA/RCIC
PERSONS WISHING TO JOIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, whether baptized in another faith or unbaptized and over the age of seven [7], may contact the pastor at any time of the year to begin the process known as RCIA [Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults]/RCIC [Rite of Christian Initiation of Children].
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Catholic News Service
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Cassie Magnotta, courtesy John Feister By Chaz Muth WASHINGTON (CNS) -- John Feister, assistant editor of Glenmary Challenge, is the recipient of the 2020 St. Francis de Sales Award...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/KNA By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Documents uncovered from the recently opened archives of the pontificate of Pope Pius XII revealed allegations of sexual abuse and...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Mohammed Salem, Reuters By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, met with the U.S. and Israeli ambassadors to the Vatican to express...
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