Lent 2025: A Message from Bishop LaBelle
Hello, beloved friends of the Diocese of Olympia. We’re about to begin our 40-day journey in the wilderness, and often the conversation turns to things that we might give up…
Lent 2024: A Message from Bishop Skelton
Greetings, people of the Diocese of Olympia. From John’s Gospel: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it produces…
Lent 2022: A Message from Bishop Rickel
Greetings, Diocese of Olympia and all who may be watching. It is indeed hard to believe that this will be our third Lent in which one of our main overarching…
Our Lenten Pilgrimage: Reflections for Lent from Bishop Gregory H. Rickel
Bishop Rickel offers his reflections for the season of Lent and encourages us to use the season as a time to explore new spiritual disciplines.
Pendulum Swings: A Lenten Message from Bishop Rickel
Bishop Rickel reflects on the season of Lent and the need to press into the seriousness of the season so that we can enjoy the joy of life all the…
Lenten Book Selection 2017 – Fierce Conversations
Join us this Lent in reading Susan Scott’s “Fierce Conversations.” Hear Bishop Rickel’s thoughts on why it’s such a timely book for us to read together as a diocese.
