The Bishop of the Abandoned Tabernacle

Saturday, October 19, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Please call the store at 703-273-5956 or email us at store@paschallamb.com to RSVP.

Victoria Schneider will join us to speak about her experience as translator of The Bishop of the Abandoned Tabernacle: St. Manuel Gonzalez Garcia.

She and her husband collaborate in and coordinate Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration for their parish in Maryland. This experience has impelled her to translate and compile Saint Manuel's writings, so that we might all learn from the one who wrote: "Jesus is with us in each and every tabernacle on earth! Do not abandon Him!"

St. Manuel felt called to the priesthood at the age of 12. After his ordination in 1901, he was sent to preach at a church which he found to be unclean and abandoned. There, praying before a Tabernacle covered in dust and cobwebs, with torn altar cloths and oil dripping onto the floor from the sanctuary lamp, he decided to dedicate his life to providing for Jesus’ needs in the Tabernacle. This poor abandoned Tabernacle taught the young priest more about the Love of Jesus than his years of theological study. It marked his entire life from that moment. He dedicated himself until his death to spreading devotion to the Eucharist, proclaiming these words which he would go on to choose for his epitaph: “Jesus is here! He is here! Do not abandon Him!” This saintly bishop will help you to receive Holy Communion more fervently and to love Jesus more deeply in Eucharistic Adoration.