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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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. 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

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

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.

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

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.

A Call to Resistance - St. Francis Day 2025
2025-10-04 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
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 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
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 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
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 (America/New_York) | Museum of Worcester, 30 Elm St., Worcester, MA, United States

Holy Cross Rural Immersion
2026-02-28 08:00 - 2026-03-07 17:00 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
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 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | MA
Easter Vigil at Agape Community. Potluck to follow.

Annual Agape Summer Workday
2026-06-13 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
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 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Agape Community, 2062 Greenwich Rd., Hardwick, MA, 01082, United States
SAT. OCT. 3 ANNUAL ST. FRANCIS DAY
10 AM- 5 PM vegan pot luck
INSTRUMENTS OF PEACE
Co-Sponsors: Pax Christi MA, Nehemiah Ministries, Just Faith, MA Catholics for Indigenous Rights
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