{"id":81974,"date":"2026-04-06T08:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81974"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:34:33","slug":"easter-service-aims-to-spiritually-clean-up-spring-break-debauchery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/easter-service-aims-to-spiritually-clean-up-spring-break-debauchery\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Service Aims To Spiritually Clean Up Spring-Break Debauchery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the New York Post\u00a0<\/em>[caution tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/lady-lourdes-church-holds-easter-125062356.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"People attending an outdoor Easter Sunday service on Daytona Beach.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Florida beach once overrun by out-of-control spring-breakers found God on Sunday.\u00a0Nearly 400 people packed the bandshell on Daytona Beach for a Catholic Easter service just steps from the shoreline where drunken \u201ctakeover\u201d mobs sparked violence and mass arrests days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight here, what we just celebrated, was just a large group of people who are wanting to do the right thing,\u201d said Jim Lally, a 63-year-old snowbird from the Poconos who winters in Daytona, to The Post.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s not thinking for the community as a whole. So this is just wonderful,\u201d he said, gesturing to the outdoor stage where an Our Lady of Lourdes pastor delivered a sermon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1775464473\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Easter Service Aims To Spiritually Clean Up Spring-Break Debauchery\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Post\u00a0[caution tabloid]: A Florida beach once overrun by out-of-control spring-breakers found God on Sunday.\u00a0Nearly 400 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81975,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81974\/revisions\/81975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}