Sunday, October 4th, 1:15-3:00 p.m. beginning the with praying the Rosary in the Prayer Garden [fountain courtyard] by the IC Church and then standing in silent prayer in downtown Cherokee holding prolife signs...

Our Diocesan Pastoral Planning process is a hot topic around the Diocese.  With this process comes many feelings, thoughts, and ideas.  I know this process is not easy.  I have experienced it though my years...

The main parish office in the school building at Cherokee is CLOSED until further notice as a few staff members have exhibited symptoms of COVID-19. Both have tested positive and continue to be quarantined at home. Please call Fr. Mark if you need assistance before coming to the office. Weekend and weekday Mass schedule remains the same at this time.

In-person Faith Formation classes for K-4 for September 23 [and maybe September 30] at IC-Cherokee are CANCELLED until Michele, DRE, recovers for her case of COVID-19. Yes, the test results from her Wednesday September 16 test arrived Sunday September 20: positive.

Our Ministry 2025 Team for both parishes [includes parish Lay Directors, chairs of the Pastoral and Finance Councils, DREs, and others from each parish] met last evening to discuss the next steps in our plan.  Deacon Mark Prosser, Director of Pastoral Planning for the Diocese, presented the history of Ministry 2025, the status of the plan, and were we need to go from here.  The bishop and his Pastoral Planning Committee has instructed us to:...

The resumption of Faith Formation classes at Immaculate Conception-CHEROKEE has been postponed a week to September 23 as Michele [DRE] has come down with a bug. To be cautious, it is best to delay start. She will be seeing her doctor to determine why she is feeling ill, and will not be in the office until further notice.

The presidential election is coming soon. It is important to understand the principles and related themes from the Catholic social teaching that provide a moral framework for making decisions....

Dennis A. Dose, age 69, of Holstein, passed away on Friday, August 21, 2020 at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center of Des Moines. A private family funeral Mass will be held at the Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church of Holstein

We are awaiting a time to hold joint meetings to discuss the next steps in our plan.  The June 4th , July 16th, and August 6th issues of The Lumen [formally known as THE CATHOLIC GLOBE] have articles providing information about the additional planning, consolidations, mergers, and closings that the parishes of the Diocese of Sioux City will face in the coming months and years...

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, At all Masses for the second Sunday in August, our parishes take up the special collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious....

Died: Tuesday 21 July 2020; Funeral: Saturday 25 July 2020, 10:30 a.m. at Pleasant Hill Cemetery - Aurelia, Iowa Social/Physical Distancing and face masks required at cemetery

Died: 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 masks

died Sunday, June 14, 2020 unexpectedly at her home. Private family services will be held the Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee.

Bishop Nickless has announced that at each pastors’ discretion, Sunday Masses may resume on Saturday June 27, beginning after 4:00 p.m....The obligation to attend Sunday Mass will continue to be dispensed for all Catholics until at least the end of this year.,,,The regular Saturday/Sunday Mass schedule will resume June 27/28 IF....

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...

Saturday June 6, Bishop Nickless will ordain a new priest for the Diocese of Sioux City: Deacon Travis Crotty ... watch the live coverage with your children on KTIV Channel 4, at www.ktiv.com, or through the KTIV Facebook site. Should you not be able to watch live at 10:00, the footage will be archived on the KTIV Facebook site and will be posted on the diocesan website in the days following the ordination....

Loving God, Creator of heaven and earth and all that is in them, You created us in your image and made us stewards of all your creation, of our common home....

of Cherokee and member of Immaculate Conception Parish-Cherokee, died Wednesday 13 May 2020. Private funeral will be held with arrangements through the Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee.

"With regard to resuming public Masses in our parishes, the Diocese of Sioux City has based and will continue to base decisions on scientific data and reliable projections. There is a number of criteria the Diocese is waiting to be met before it is deemed safe and responsible to open up churches again. This includes the downward trajectory of new COVID-19 cases reported within a 14-day period, the downward trajectory of hospital bed, intensive care, and ventilator usage, and the downward trajectory of daily death reports. In addition to these things, it is necessary to have adequate contact-tracing and a robust testing program. Achieving these conditions will indicate that it is reasonably safe to resume, with precautions, the public celebration of the Mass."

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