Holy Spirit Retirement Home

01/13/2026

May God’s eternal light shine upon you Tom! We will continue our prayers for you at Holy Spirit Retirement Home! ✝️🙏✝️

View Thomas Lowell Peterson's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

01/12/2026

Today we begin Ordinary Time, which begins on the Monday after the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which is the end of the Christmas Season. This first period of Ordinary Time runs until Ash Wednesday when the liturgical season of Lent begins. Ordinary Time will resume after the Solemnity of the Pentecost and conclude the day before Advent begins.

Because the term ordinary in English most often means something that's not special or distinctive, many people think that Ordinary Time refers to parts of the calendar of the Catholic Church that are unimportant. Even though the season of Ordinary Time makes up most of the liturgical year in the Catholic Church, the fact that Ordinary Time refers to those periods that fall outside of the major liturgical seasons reinforces this impression. Yet Ordinary Time is far from unimportant or uninteresting.

Ordinary Time is called "ordinary" not because it is common, but simply because the weeks of Ordinary Time are numbered. The Latin word ordinalis, which refers to numbers in a series, stems from the Latin word ordo, from which we get the English word order. Thus, the numbered weeks of Ordinary Time, in fact, represent the ordered life of the Church—the period in which we live our lives neither in feasting (as in the Christmas and Easter seasons) or in more severe penance (as in Advent and Lent), but in watchfulness and expectation of the Second Coming of Christ.

For Catholics, Ordinary Time is the part of the year in which Christ, the Lamb of God, walks among us and transforms our lives.

As the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops reminds us, "The Sundays and weeks of Ordinary Time take us through the life of Christ. This is the time of conversion. This is living the life of Christ. Ordinary Time is a time for growth and maturation, a time in which the mystery of Christ is called to pe*****te ever more deeply into history until all things are finally caught up in Christ. The goal, toward which all of history is directed, is represented by the final Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.

The vestments worn by priests and deacons at Mass are green during this time, except on days of Solemnities, Feasts, and Memorials of most saints when white is the color, and on memorials of martyrs when red is the color. More about the color of the vestments worn will be addressed later.

01/11/2026

Four Generations of Karrer’s! Great Grandpa Don is over the moon 🌝 with his most recent visit from his new grand son Theo! 🌛💙🍼👶 Holy Spirit Retirement Home

01/11/2026

As Saint Teresa of Calcutta said, ‘Stay where you are. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely, right where you are.’

01/11/2026

Sunday blessings to each of you~🙏

01/10/2026

A wonderful mass yesterday at our beautiful Holy Spirit Retirement Home Chapel. In memory of our dear friend Berniece Trembly! ✝️🙏✝️ May Gods light continue to shine on Berneice now and forever!💛

01/10/2026

Thank you to all who serve and protect our community! You are all heroes everyday!☮️🥇🏵️

01/09/2026

God bless you dear friend. We will miss you at Holy Spirit Retirement Home. May God’s light shine upon you now and forever’🙏✝️🙏

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01/08/2026

Once again we are volunteering and selling Gourmet apples for the Siouxland Humane Society. Now through Friday, January 30th. Let us know how many you wish to purchase! Just in time for Valentine's Day and a wonderful way to support our furry friends at the Siouxland Humane Society! Holy Spirit Retirement Home

01/08/2026

Co-workers Alek and Jackiee enjoying a special day of pet visits for our residents today at Holy Spirit Retirement Home. This sweet girl can be adopted at the Sioux City Humane Society. Her name is Angie and she is a pure-bred Frenchie and only 2 years old and full of love and cuddles! 🥰 She would be such a great companion…..🐾🩷🐾

01/08/2026

God’s peace be with you dear Lavonne. We will continue our prayers for you and your family! ✝️🙏✝️

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01/07/2026

We thank you for your love and support and attendance at our beautiful Holy Spirit Retirement Home Chapel. We are humbled and grateful for all our blessings from each of you that are part of our family here at Holy Spirit!