Agape Community

Agape Summer Workday
2025-06-14 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
Assist Agape prepare wood for next winter. Meet new friends from the community circle. Bring lunch. Please RSVP if you can.
Rain date, June 21st same time.

(Below) Iona University and Holy Cross College joined together for Agape Rural Immersion May 19-23rd, 2025. Colleges are invited to come with their students 2025-2026 for retreats and immersion.

Agape 5-Day Rural Immersion Retreat
2025-05-19 08:00 - 2025-05-23 17:00 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
Contact Agape to enroll for the full five days or single days and overnight. You will join the community in their plant-based eating practice throughout the retreat.
Call 413-967-9369 to join with Iona University students from New York, as well as Prof. James Robinson of Iona and other colleges to discuss the spiritual crisis of our times and how simple living, organic gardening and community faith practice sustain us in a world of uncertainty and change.

Download Iona flier PDF

Holy Saturday Mass At Agape with Fr. Fred Enman SJ.
2025-04-19 17:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
Vegan pot-luck to follow Please rsvp.

Good Friday Stations of Nonviolence and Resistance
2025-04-18 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
C0-SPONSORED BY AGAPE COMMUNITY, PAX CHRISTI MA, MASS CATHOLICS
FOR
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, JUST FAITH, CATHOLIC WORKERS WORCESTER
All are welcome for a silent vigil: spoken Stations of the Cross for Today’s World of Tyranny and Despotism

Agape’s Annual St. Brigid Day
2025-02-15 17:30 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
Saturday, Feb. 15th, 2025
5:30 pm BONFIRE
Followed by a vegan pot-luck
Join this midwinter Celtic feast of Poetry, Prayer and Song, celebrating St. Brigid of Kildare
HONORING IRISH RESISTANCE TO GAZA GENOCIDE

Agape’s Annual Advent Evening
2024-12-07 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
In a time of historic upheaval, war and discord, let us call out to the nonviolent Jesus as we pray:
Come Nonviolent one • lighting of the advent wreath, songs, poetry, prayer

Agape’s Annual St. Francis Day SAT. OCT. 5, 2024
2024-10-05 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
Join us at Agape for our 42nd Annual St. Francis Day celebration. Our theme is Growing the Community of Communities. How can communities of Faith and Action continue to sustain themselves, as they face the ecological and social crises of the 21st Century?

To address this question, we call on activists, students, theologians and practitioners of nonviolent resistance from all faith traditions, to reflect on the challenges we currently face and the possibilities we can collectively actualize. It’s a day for remembering our roots and enfleshing our future.
Join us for a day of music, prayer & discussion of the following:

Urban and Rural Eco-Justice
Faith-based Action for Palestinian Liberation
Young People Striving Toward Community

BRING FOOD FOR THE POTLUCK!

Reparation and Repentance: Uncovering the White Benevolent Myth On the Catholic Feast Day of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Prayer, Music, Song and Light Refreshments KATERI TEKAKWITHA PRAYER, MUSIC, SONG AND LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
2024-07-14 13:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
REPARATION AND REPENTANCE: UNCOVERING THE WHITE BENEVOLENT MYTH
ON THE CATHOLIC FEAST DAY OF SAINT KATERI TEKAKWITHA
PRAYER, MUSIC, SONG AND LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
Held at Agape, Hardwick, MA RSVP/ cs4202144@yahoo.com or peace@agapecommunity.org

July 14 Final PDF

Annual Agape Summer Workday
2024-06-08 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
Assist our community in getting ready for winter. We need your strong (or weak) arms and willing hearts! Come help with cutting up, splitting, and stacking wood from three recently felled trees, opening the garden, general landscaping, prayer and food.

Easter Vigil at Agape
2024-03-30 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
Saturday, March 30th 5:30 pm
Easter Vigil and Catholic Mass with Father Fred Enman SJ, BC Law School, co-founder, Matthew 25 in Worcester
Overnight accommodation available. Please RSVP: Peace@agapecommunity.org (413)-967-9369
Bring a friend; all are welcome!
Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA

Stations of the Cross of Nonviolence
2024-03-29 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | The Statehouse, 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA, 02133, United States
Good Friday, March 29th from Noon – 3 pm
Join with various peace and religious communities in a vigil with individual reflections on the sufferings of Christ as we see the sufferings of the world crucified by war and violence.
Sponsored by House of Peace and Pax Christi

Women Grieving Israel-Palestine
2024-02-25 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
WOMEN GRIEVING ISRAEL-PALESTINE
SINCE OCTOBER 7TH, THE BLOODSHED AND LOSS OF LIFE IN ISRAEL-PALESTINE HAS FELT IMPOSSIBLE TO BEAR. WE ARE FOREVER CHANGED.
TO MOVE FORWARD IN LOVE, FAITH AND RESILIENCE, WE MUST FIND A PLACE FOR GRIEF.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A WOMEN’S CIRCLE OF GRIEF AND MOURNING.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2-5PM
AGAPE COMMUNITY
2062 GREENWICH RD, HARDWICK, MA
01082
SENT BY: SUZANNE BELOTE SHANLEY, AGAPE, AND CLAIRE SCHAEFFER-DUFFY AND PATRICIA KIRKPATRICK, SS. FRANCIS AND
THERESE CATHOLIC WORKER.
PLEASE RSVP BY 2/18 TO PEACE@AGAPECOMMUNITY.ORG OR 413-967-9369

41st Annual Francis Day
2023-10-07 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
AGAPE REOPENS
41st ANNUAL FRANCIS DAY
SAT. OCT. 7, 10 AM – 4 PM
Themes include building small, faith communities, with nonviolence, and contemplation in our wounded world. As always, we will pray together and play music together.
We feel enlivened and ready to return to our Agape’s commitment to ecological sustainable stewardship in a world that continues to be torn by war. Relentless bombing in Ukraine pulls in the US, government’s support of our “ally” with weapons and financial support at $44 billion and counting.
Our planet staggers with the ravages of the climate crisis and month’s-long heat of 100 degrees and over. American South and Southwest are becoming unlivable in the deep summer months.

Agape Autumn Work Day 2
2022-11-12 09:00 - 16:00 UTC | MA
Assist our community in getting ready for winter. We need your strong (or weak) arms and willing hearts! Come help with cutting up, splitting, and stacking wood from three recently felled trees, closing up the garden, general landscaping, and many other homesteading tasks.

All are welcome! Work according to your ability. Join us for a delicious vegan potluck following the day’s work. Please bring your own lunch. RVSP to peace@agapecommunity.org or 413-967-9369 by November 1st if you plan to attend.

Agape Autumn Work Day 1
2022-11-05 09:00 - 16:00 UTC | MA

40th Anniversary Celebration
2022-10-01 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | MA
Reflections on Agape by:

Sr. Claire and Rev. Kato Shoni of the Leverett Buddhist Peace Pagoda
Frida Berrigan, nonviolent author and columnist
John & Carrie Schuchardt, cofounders of the House of Peace
Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, Byzantine Melkite Priest, Agape Cofounder
Nicole Brathwaite-Hunt, Board Member of Worcester Inter-Tribal Indian Center
Steve & Nancy James, cofounders of Agape
Rev. John P. Sullivan, M.S., Director of La Salette Shrine in Enfield, NH
Sr. Melinda Pellerin, SSJ, Vice President of National Black Sisters Conference
Michael Boover, cofounder of the Mustard Seed Catholic Worker
Linda Reimer, cofounder of the Sirius Community
Larry Buell, founder of University of the Wild and Earthland, accompanied by representatives from the Nipmuc Nation
Pat Ferrone, Regional Coordinator, Pax Christi, Agape “lifer”
Brother North Star, Peace Pilgrim and Earth Activist
Fr. Mark Korban, Orthodox Priest
Sheikh Yawar Baig & Mohammed Saleem Bajwa of the Islamic Society of Western MA
Members of the Agape Mission Council
Members of the extended community networks including Pax Christi, Just Faith Springfield, University of the Wild, MA Sisters of Joseph, Jesuit Community, Sirius Community, and Catholic Workers.

Music:

Ricardo Frota
Fran Reagan
Katja Esser
Maria Termini
Noonday Farm Singers and Noonday/Haley House friends: Bill Beardslee, Lisa Mayer, Jimmy Levinson, Beth Ingham, and more…stay tuned.

Important Information:
Parking:

Please arrive by 9:30 for on street parking. The program will begin promptly at 10 AM.

Overnight:

If we have not already confirmed with you that you may stay overnight , we are unable to accommodate any more guests. However, please call us for possible alternative arrangements if you intend to stay in the area.

Food:

Please bring a bagged lunch. Our food offerings will be very limited this year.
If you intend to stay for the evening VEGETARIAN/VEGAN potluck, please bring a dish that DOES NOT need to be heated. We are unable to heat up multiple meals in our kitchen.

COVID-19 Protocol:

Per the most recent CDC guidelines on outdoor gatherings we will not be requiring proof of vaccination or masks when outdoors.Due to the large size of our gathering we recommend anyone who is able to test prior to arrival to do so.We are requiring masks when indoors, and recommending people limit their time spent indoors to as little as possible.

Annual Agape Summer Workday
2022-06-11 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | MA
A day of homesteading, wood-splitting, gardening. Preparing the community for the Fall and Winter. Rain date: Saturday, June 18th

Rural Immersion at Agape: Stonehill College
2022-05-23 12:00 - 17:00 UTC | MA
students participate in contemplative life, cultivate a spring garden and gather wood
