Parents Serve at Caritas Soup Kitchen

We are called to"feed the hungy." At least once every month a team of St. Gabriels parents serve lunch to hundreds of hungry Austin folks downtown at 6th and Neches. Generally a shift at the soup kitchen starts around 9:30 in the morning, preparing the food, washing fruit and vegetables, and setting up the serving trays. Lunch service runs from noon until 1:30 and feeds around 400+ people. The clean up is quick and efficient and involves getting the kitchen and service equipment scrubbed down and ready for the next day. This is one amazing operation. The people who regularly work Austin's only soup kitchen and the parents who volunteer there model the true spirit of service with their belief that when you serve in this capacity you receive much more than you give. As one Volunteer noted, "we provided them with enrichment of food and they provided us with enrichment of the soul."