BOSTON (AP) — With peak holiday travel starting just after the government shutdown’s flight restrictions, hope for a moment of peace at an airport can feel like a wing and a prayer.

But quiet and worship are just what airport chapels have provided for decades to travelers and to the airport workers that many were originally designed for.

“I love seeing travel bags and workers’ outfits. It gives hope that you’re ministering to a need,” said the Rev. Brian Daley, one of the priests at Our Lady of the Airways at Boston’s Logan International Airport.

Built in the 1950s so that airport employees could attend Mass right in their sprawling workplace, it’s widely considered the first airport chapel in the United States. It’s also among the last to still function as a Catholic church instead of

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