Agape Community

Agape’s Annual St. Brigid Day
2025-02-15 17:30 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Ware, MA, 01082
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

Good Friday Stations of Nonviolence and Resistance
2025-04-18 12:00 - 15:00 | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Ware, MA, 01082
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

Holy Saturday Mass At Agape with Fr. Fred Enman SJ.
2025-04-19 17:30 - 20:30 | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Ware, MA, 01082
Vegan pot-luck to follow Please rsvp.

Agape 5-Day Rural Immersion Retreat
2025-05-19 08:00 - 2025-05-23 17:00 | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Ware, MA, 01082
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

Agape Summer Workday
2025-06-14 09:00 - 16:00 | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Ware, MA, 01082
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.

A Call to Resistance - St. Francis Day 2025
2025-10-04 10:00 - 16:00 | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Ware, MA, 01082
Where: The Agape Community, Hardwick, MA
When: St. Francis Day, Sat. Oct. 4, 2025, 10 am to 4 pm
Why: Ongoing genocide in Gaza, 3 years of war in Ukraine, illegal ICE arrests, American Dictatorship exposed

Join faith-based communities in nonviolent resistance as we challenge the ongoing madness of endless wars, rule by the rich, abandonment of the needy.
We hope to gather nonviolent, faith based activists from throughout the northeast to explore together:

Public protest and civil disobedience
Boycotting corporations: i.e. Walmart, Amazon, Tesla
War Tax Resistance: Noncooperating with the war economy
Work strikes and school walkouts
Contemplative practice, fasting and prayerful divine obedience in this time of economic and political free fall.

Oct. 4th 10 am… Save the Date !!! RSVP for accommodations.
Empowerment, spiritual communities seeking solidarity in witness. Updates, speakers, action suggestions to follow.
Please RSVP to:
peace@agapecommunity.org
OR call us at
413-967-9369

Annual Advent Evening
2025-12-06 17:30 - 20:30 | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Ware, MA, 01082
Agape’s Annual Advent Evening:
IN a time of historic upheaval, war and discord, let us call out to the nonviolent Jesus as we pray:
Come Nonviolent one
Sat. Dec. 6, 2025
at 5:30 pm bonfire
lighting of the advent wreath, songs, poetry, prayer, VEGAN POTLUCK. Arrive by 5 for parking, please rsvp asap

Annual St. Brigid Nite
2026-02-07 17:30 - 20:30 | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Ware, MA, 01082
Join this midwinter Celtic feast of Poetry, Prayer and Song, celebrating St. Brigid of Kildare honoring Irish resistance to the Gaza genocide. Invocations to St. Brigid, fire circle, vegan potluck

Peace in Worcester: The Berrigans - Documentary Screening and Dialogue
2026-02-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Museum of Worcester, 30 Elm St., Worcester, MA, United States

Holy Cross Rural Immersion
2026-02-28 08:00 - 2026-03-07 17:00 | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Ware, MA, 01082
Students come to assist on the land with woodcutting and gardening. 5-Day rural immersion.

St. Brigid Nite
2026-03-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Ware, MA, 01082
St. Brigid Nite has been rescheduled to March 14, at 5PM. Join us for a bonfire followed by a potluck!

Good Friday Stations of the Cross
2026-04-03 12:00 - 15:00 | The Statehouse, 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA, 02133, United States
Venue: State House in Boston

Easter Vigil at Agape Community
2026-04-04 17:00 - 19:00 | MA
Easter Vigil at Agape Community. Potluck to follow.

Annual Agape Summer Workday
2026-06-13 09:00 - 17:00 | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Ware, MA, 01082
A day of community building, homesteading, wood-splitting, gardening, and preparing the community for the Fall and Winter.
Please RSVP to peace@agapecommunity.org or call 413-967-9369

St. Francis Day 2026
2026-10-03 09:00 - 16:00 | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Ware, MA, 01082
SAT. OCT. 3 ANNUAL ST. FRANCIS DAY
9 AM- 4 PM vegan pot luck
PLEASE REGISTER FOR EVENT AT peace@agapecommunity.org
PEACEMAKING IN DARK TIMES (tentative topic)
With SHANE CLAIBORNE –other invited guests and speakers
Watch for more details…
