Unable to open Pages document

New user to Mac, OS X, iCloud - new to the whole schmeer.
Just purchased a new MacBook Pro, running OS X 10.9.4. I have some Pages documents in the iCloud that I created on the Mac and have begun working on with iOS Pages (just purchased for my phone, running iOS 7.1.2). The documents I've made changes to on my iPhone are now unable to be opened on the Mac. Pages on the Mac kicks up an error dialog that says 'The file "BlahBlah.pages" couldn't be opened.'
Help a newby out - what am I doing wrong?

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