{"id":230336,"date":"2026-05-13T19:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230336\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:33:09","slug":"a-weekend-with-the-holy-spirit-spiritual-exercises-in-the-heart-of-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230336\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend with the Holy Spirit: Spiritual Exercises in the Heart of Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"SPEX-St-Pats\"The Holy Spirit is Moving in Manhattan<\/p>\n

In August of 2025, the Legionaries of Christ were assigned the Basilica of Old St. Pat\u2019s<\/a>, and in December, Fr. Daniel Ray was installed as pastor<\/a> at the historic church, the first cathedral of the Archdiocese of New York. Originally primarily serving the Irish immigrant population, the basilica has become one of the central parishes for young professionals in Manhattan, and is also home to Spanish and Italian communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And these days, Old St. Pat\u2019s is one of three Manhattan parishes seeing a resurgence in Mass attendance, particularly among college students and young professionals. Along with St. Joseph\u2019s in Greenwich Village and St. Vincent Ferrer on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side, at Old St. Pat\u2019s, young people are showing up in droves to sometimes standing-room-only Masses, and OCIA numbers have nearly doubled from previous years. This year at Old St. Pat\u2019s, 70 people were confirmed at the Easter Vigil, up from 40 the year before.<\/p>\n

Many of those attending the overflowing Masses at Old St. Pat\u2019s are fallen-away Catholics who are returning to the faith of their childhood after several years, Fr. Daniel told the National Catholic Register<\/a> in an article on the Catholic boom in Manhattan. But some are people who have grown up in another denomination or non-Christian religion, or were raised without any faith at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0The Holy Spirit is Moving in Manhattan In August of 2025, the Legionaries of Christ were assigned the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-230336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}