The Agape Community, co-founded in 1982, is a lay Catholic intentional community focused on prayer, sustainable living, and nonviolent witness inspired by Jesus and St. Francis. It promotes a lifestyle of nonviolence and sustainability through structures like solar-powered homes, a compost toilet system, and an organic garden. The community hosts interns and volunteers participating in various activities, while fostering a contemplative life through prayer, reflection, and communal celebrations.

1. Agape
Community
living christian
nonviolence

2. What is the Agape Community ?
 CO FOUNDED IN 1982
 LAY CATHOLIC INTENTIONAL
COMMUNITY
 DEDICATED TO PRAYER, SUSTAINABLE
LIVING, NONVIOLENT WITNESS

3. Living Christian Nonviolence
 DAILY PRAYER
 DEVOTION TO LIFE EXAMPLE
OF JESUS
 DAILY PRACTICE OF SILENCE
& MEDITATION
 THE INFLUENCE OF ST. FRANCIS
 LOVE & PROTECTION OF THE
NATURAL WORLD
 RESISTANCE TO WAR & VIOLENCE

4. Community Structures
FRANCIS HOUSE
BRIGID HOUSE

5. Community Structures
HERMITAGE
CHAPEL

6. Who lives at Agape ?
INTERNS
&
VOLUNTEERS

7. Workdays

8. Rural Immersions

9. Retreats

10. Creatively Maladjusted
20 SOMETHINGS
PURSUING A
LIFESTYLE OF
NONVIOLENCE

11. Sustainable Living
STRAW BALE HOUSE
 SUPER INSULATED (R-50)
 YEARLY RENEWABLE RESOURCE

12. Sustainable Living
 HALF CONSTRUCTION COSTS
 2500 SQ FT.

13. Sustainable Living
FRANCIS HOUSE SOLAR POWER
 ALTERNATIVE TO BURNING FOSSIL FUELS
 NON CARBON ENERGY
 ENERGY PRODUCED FOR UP TO 30 YEARS
WITH CURRENT SOLAR PANELS

14. Sustainable Living
BRIGID HOUSE SOLAR POWER
 SOLAR HOT WATER
 12 VOLT DIRECT CURRENT SYSTEM

15. Sustainable Living
VEGETABLE OIL
POWERED CAR
drive vegetarian !
 EMISSIONS REDUCED BY 80%
 45 MILES PER GALLON
 FREE/RECYCLED VEGETABLE
OIL FUEL

16. Sustainable Living

17. Sustainable Living
COMPOST
TOILET
 CONSERVES DRINKING
WATER
 WASTES RECYCLED AS
COMPOSTED FERTILIZER
 NUTRIENTS RETURNED TO
FRUIT TREES

18. Sustainable Living
 GARDENING BY INTERNS & VOLUNTEERS
ORGANIC GARDEN
 WE GROW 60% OF OUR VEGETABLES
 COMMUNITY DIET IS VEGETARIAN
 WE GARDEN 8 MONTHS OF THE YEAR

19. Contemplative Life
 PRAY & REFLECT ON DAILY SCRIPTURE
 EUCHARISTIC & LAY LED LITURGY

20. Contemplative Life


SOLITUDE IN HERMITAGE
SABBATH

21. Nonviolent Witness in the World

22. Nonviolent Witness in the World

23. Celebrations
ST. BRIGID DAY
ST. FRANCIS DAY

24. Celebrations
ADVENT EVENING
EASTER VIGIL

25. How to contact us
Agape Community
2062 Greenwich Rd.
Ware, MA 01082
phone: 413-967-9369
email: peace@agapecommunity.org