The Ministry 2025 Pastoral Plan has been announced. In short, the plan calls for all the parishes in Carroll County to become one new parish with a Catholic School [Kuemper Catholic School]. The next steps in the process will include:
1. training of facilitators to guide parish clusters through a series of meetings so that each parish cluster formulates their cluster pastoral plan
2. clergy and leadership of Carroll County working as a team to work out Mass coverage in the county during the transition period and after priest assignments take effect in July. This will be a temporary arrangement during our transition period and the time of pastoral planning.
3. beginning in August 2017 representatives from all current Carroll County parishes will begin the process of pastoral planning. This process will be the same process that the other parish clusters will be undergoing in the spring of 2017.
The new parish in Carroll County will implement their plan in early 2018 with WORSHIP SITES at: Holy Spirit-Carroll, Saint Lawrence-Carroll, Saint Elizabeth Seton-Glidden, Saint Joseph-Dedham, Sacred Heart-Templeton, Saint Ann-Vail, Saint John the Baptist-Arcadia, Saint Bernard-Breda and ORATORIES at Our Lady of Mount Carmel-Mt. Carmel, Holy Family-Lidderdale, Saint Mary-Willey, Annunciation-Coon Rapids, Saint Augustine-Halbur, Holy Angels-Roselle.
More information and maps on our website at http://christthekingcatholiccommunity.org/ministry-2025
Please keep these two prayers in mind as we proceed forward with this plan.
Prayer for Pastoral Planning in the Diocese of Sioux City
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we the people of the Diocese of Sioux City prayerfully look to the future. During this time of pastoral planning, we implore the Holy Spirit to pour out upon us the gifts of wisdom, understanding, courage and hope.
May we exercise the virtue of prudence by opening our hearts and minds to be good stewards of the legacy of faith inherited from those who built the Church in northwest Iowa;
May we exercise the virtue of justice by opening our hearts and minds to assure that the voices of persons from all generations, all vocations and all areas of the diocese are welcomed and respected;
May we exercise the virtue of fortitude by opening our hearts and minds to understand and acknowledge the spiritual and practical realities of our day and prepare for the days to come;
May we exercise the virtue of temperance by opening our hearts and minds to accept the changes in diocesan, parish and personal life that the Holy Spirit, through this planning process, is guiding us to make.
Under the protection of Our Lady of Guadalupe, our patroness and Saint Joseph, our patron, may we discern and implement what is best for the diocesan Church and all the faithful of the Diocese of Sioux City. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Serenity Prayer
God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.