When winter weather impedes travel or makes coming to Mass hazardous, [as is the case for age, health, or physical conditions] you are exempt from the obligation to attend Mass.
Weekend and daily Masses and parish activities may be cancelled if travel is not advised due to hazardous weather to provide for the safety and well-being of the people as a whole when sidewalks, parking lots, roads, and streets are not safe; especially during snowstorms when it is not always possible to have sidewalks, parking lots, and steps to the church clear and salted until after the storm.
In most cases, Mass will always be held at
Immaculate Conception in Cherokee on weekends and the usual weekdays as the pastor resides near the church.
For daily Masses at
Our Lady of Good Counsel in Holstein, when school is delayed or cancelled due to weather, daily Mass on Wednesday and Friday will be cancelled.
If any weekend Masses are canceled, KCHE FM 92.1 (Cherokee radio) and KTIV-TV (Channel 4 Sioux City) will be notified to air the cancellations.
When school is cancelled or called off early due to weather on Wednesdays, there will be no Faith Formation classes held at either parish on Wednesday evening.
ALL weather-related announcements will be posted on our parish website.