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Educational Programs at Agape
- an energizing community service day at a lay, Catholic nonviolent community on 32 acres of land in the Quabbin Reservoir?
- a straw bale house, with solar energy, compost toilet and see how vegetable oil is the fuel for the community car?
- two houses built from “the ground-up”? by over 200 people ?
- an organic garden, planted, cultivated and harvested for the poor and others in the neighborhood?
- what the Catholic Church teaches about social justice, issues of war, peace and Conscientious Objection?
If you have answered YES! to at least one of these questions, please email or call us at 413-967-9369 for more details.
| Christian Teachings on War and Peace: Is Jesus Enough? |
| How do Christians respond to the ongoing War On Terrorism? What Does Christianity say about : The Just War? Nonviolence? What defines a just war? Who decides if a war is Just? Does nonviolence offer practical solutions to war? What is our Chrisitian legacy of nonviolence? Why isn’t it taught? Schedule a workshop, retreat, classroom discussion, evening presentation on these issues as well as ” A Catholic Call to Peacemaking” a grassroots response to the War on Terrorism, signed by almost 2,000 people in an ongoing campaign that has reached a national audience. |
The Agape Community Offers Days of Work and Reflection on Lifestyle in a Sustainable Community and More
The Agape Community, located on 32 acres of land in the Quabbin Reservoir watershed, is hosting groups of youth and adults for work/education days throughout the summer and into the fall, to encourage people, especially the young, to consider a nonviolent lifestyle that concentrates on sustainable living, prayer, simplicity, contemplation and action.
Students, parish groups, adults will experience, Brigid House, our straw bale house with solar energy and compost toilet, together with an explanation of the building of the community by several hundred people over a two year period.
We will work in and explore Agape’s organic garden which feeds those who sojourn to Agape as well as those in the extended community.
We will demonstrate our “veggie” car, which runs on vegetable oil from a local Restaurant 99, and offer an opportunity for those in the workshops to assist with the work of the community, such as splitting and stacking wood for our wood cook and wood burning stoves.
A talk or workshop, small group format, tailored to the needs of your group, can be added on conflict resolution, compassionate listening, practicing mindfulness, silence and the solitary, nonviolence and the sacred earth, among others.
Adult groups may want to host a retreat of 10 -20 adults, with guided meditations, use of Agape’s graceful hermitage, and solitary walks in the Quabbin, with guided talks by co-founders, Brayton and Suzanne Shanley.
Agape is scheduling groups for next fall and spring, and hope you will alert college students and faculty you may know to Agape’s ongoing internship program as well as the Annual Fall College Retreat the first weekend of November, this year November 5th - 7th.
Co-founders Suzanne Belote Shanley and Brayton Shanley have MA degrees in English (Simmons College) and Pastoral Ministry (BC), and have just completed teaching a college course at Worcester State on The Philosophy of Nonviolence. Together, they have led retreats and conducted workshops on the Spirituality of Nonviolence since 1978.
