Thanks, Bill!
I’d never heard of Holy Thursday referred to in this way until I started attending the Latin Mass…in most Roman Catholic churches that name is no longer used (like you said in your earlier post, Red). But anyway, the first time I heard “Maundy”, I too thought it was “Monday” and couldn’t figure out why on earth they called it that. But since by that time I was in my 20’s, I didn’t want to ask anyone because I thought I’d look silly 
We also strip everything down, and cover our statues, and whatnot in purple cloth. They don’t come off until the priest says the Gloria at the Vigil Mass, and the bells are rung again for the first time since the beginning of Lent.
My church, Episcopal, doesn’t have the Maundy Thursday service because we share a priest with another church and they have one. Tomorrow evening we will strip the church altar and cover the cross and have a joint Good Friday service with the local Catholic church. I like this service, although it is a hard one and there is so little music compared to the other ones. No processional or resessional and little service music other than me beating the tenor drum, which is almost eerie. We do get to do the Sabat Mater during the reverencing of the cross. I love that tune. All in all , I think the Good Friday service is perhaps the most moving of the church year. We usually have several visitors from other denominations for that service.
We actually manage to cram even more music in, even though there’s no processional or recessional. We add a communion anthem and a Tenebrae anthem. I don’t know what the congregation thinks, but we choristers love it!
We won’t have a service tomorrow, but there will be people in the church between noon and three, so it can be open for prayer and meditation, and they will ring the bells each hour. Our next big service will be the Great Vigil on Saturday night…that’s when we really pull out the musical stops!
Redwolf