Vatican officials are making strategic phone calls to some of the world’s most far-flung dioceses, trying to verify that in each of the world’s inhabited time zones there will be an organised hour of eucharistic adoration coinciding with 5-6 pm Rome time on the 2nd of June 2.

The Vatican is trying to organise a global hour of prayer around the Eucharist “for the first time in the history of the church,” said Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, the office organising events for the Year of Faith.

Pope Francis will preside over adoration and benediction in St. Peter’s Basilica beginning at 5pm on the 2nd of June, the date most dioceses in the world celebrate the feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord.

To celebrate at the same time as the Pope, Catholics in Mumbai would begin at 8.30pm, those in New York would begin at 11am, in Seattle at 8am, in Honolulu at 5am and at 1am on the 3d of June in Sydney.

In at least two time zones — Greenwich Mean Time minus 10 hours and GMT minus 2 hours — there is little hope for participation, the Archbishop said; both time zones cover vast areas of uninhabited ocean.

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