When asked "What will save the world?", Mother Teresa replied: "My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer."

Over 2,500 parishes around the world now have Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. About 500 of these are in the Philippines with Cardinal Sin asking every parish in the Archdiocese of Manila to have perpetual adoration. The United States has about 1,100 chapels of perpetual adoration, the Republic of Ireland about 150 - and Bishop John McGee of Clone Diocese, the only man to be secretary to three Popes, has personally established 33 of these chapels. South Korea, with its rapidly growing Catholic population, has 70.

In any situation in our world, our best reaction is to give our lives wholeheartedly to Christ, through prayer and penance. Prayer should especially be in the presence of Jesus Himself - in the most Blessed Sacrament.

That is the foundation of the worldwide movement for Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration.

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