Maundy Thursday Day of Service

A Holy Spirit Lenten Tradition

On Maundy Thursday, members of the Holy Spirit Church and School communities take a day off of work and their usual activities to serve our outreach partners in the Houston area.  Afterward the work is done, volunteers feast on a “friendship stew,” prepared by students from Holy Spirit Episcopal School, and participate in the Maundy Thursday worship service where our clergy wash the feet of the congregation just as Jesus washed the feet of His disciples.

This special Day of Service gives us the opportunity to pitch in and remind our neighbors and ourselves that God’s love for each of us is real.  We are called to serve each other. 

2011 Maundy Thursday Day of Service

April 21, 2011

    A Note of Thanks from our 2011 Event Coordinator, Julieanne Mani:

Holy Spirit Episcopal Church's third annual Maunday Thursday Day of Service once again touched many, many lives, not just those we served, but our own as well.  We served our neighbors in need, we forged new friendships and our Holy Spirit Episcopal School children witnessed God's love in action.  Whether it was sweating in a group home garden, painting a room in a women's shelter, slaving over a hot stove making meals for families in need, visiting our shut-ins, singing for nursing home residents, sorting and selling for a sidewalk sale, on Maundy Thursday, "we walked the walk."  We completed our day with home made Friendship Soup, and the very humbling Maunday Thursday church service.  It was tryly a day of blood sweat, and tears.  We all know about the sweat, but there was blood as well, with some serious poison ivy, and tears at our very emotional washing of the feet by our wonderful clergy.  I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all those who helped in the success of this day.  I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your time, your patience, your generosity, but mostly for your servant hearts.