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SIXTEEN
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MARCH 31, 1944
Three Members of
St. Peter*s Parish,
Columbia, u Missing**
Special to The Bulletin)
COLUMBIA, S. C.,—Three more
members of St. Peter’s parish in
Columbia have been reported as
missing in action, Ensign Robert
Houston Bond, U. S. N. R., Lieu
tenant Thomas Patrick McGuinn,
U. S. Army Air Force, and Avia
tion Mechanics Mate Carl Marion
Regal who was later located.
Ensign Bond, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. James W. Bond, attended
St. Peter’s parochial school and
Ihe University of South Carolina,
lie has been reported by the Navy
Department as being missing in
action at sea while in the perfor
mance of his duty in the service
of his country. He has two bro
thers in the Army and another bro
ther in the Naval Reserve.
Lieutenant McGuinn, was born in
Columbia, but lived in Savannah
during his youth. He returned to
Columbia, with his family in 1033,
and entered the Army as an avia
lion cadet in 1942. He completed
his training at Las Vagas. Nevada,
and went overseas IdRt fall. He was
serving on a Flying Fortress, based
in England, when he embarked on
the raid over enemy held terri
tory from which he did not re
turn.
Carl Marion Regal, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Regal, was re
ported by the Navy Department as
being missing in action in the Paci
fic theatre of war but rater reports
indicated that he had been located.
He was an aviation mechanics
mate, third class and had entered
the Navy in January, 1942. His
parents received a leter from him
several weeks ago in which he stat
ed he was on an unnamed island
in the Pacific Ocean. His brother,
Louis Regal, Jr., also in the stat
ion, is at present stationed in this
country.
Five Postulants
Pronounce Vows at
Convent in Belmont
Ensign Robert Bond,
of Columbia Parish,
Missing in Action*
<<
BOOK REVIE
By W. L. SCHMIDT
ws
BELMONT, N. C.— Five postul
ants of the Sacred Heart Convent
recently received the religious
habit of the Sisters of Mercy. The
novices elect were Miss Wilma
Brewer, Baltimore, who will be
known as Sister Mary Joseph; Miss
Hazel Smith. Brooklyn, who will
be known as Sister Mary Geral
dine; Miss Dorothy Ellis, Cincin
nati, who will be known as Sister
Mary Clare; Miss Catherine Mc-
Alvin, Brooklyn, who will be
known as Sister Mary William, and
Miss Marie West, Dorchester,
Mass., who will be known as Sis
ter Mary Richard.
In the absence of the Right Rev.
Vincent G. Taylor, O. S. B., D. D.,
Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont, the
Very Rev. Joseph Tobin, O. S. B.,
Prior of Belmont Abbey, presided
at the ceremony.
The Rev. John Manley, pastor
of St. Joan of Arc Church, Ashe
ville, N. C., delivered the sermon,
and the attending clergy included
the Rev. William O’Neill, Everett,
Mass.; the Rev. Herbert A. Harkins
and the Rev. Francis Tait, South
ern Pines; the Rev. Cletus Helf-
rick, Salisbury; the Rev. Vincent
Doran. C. SS. R., Newton Grove,
and the Rev. John Koch, Charlotte.
At the community Mass the fol
lowing morning, three novices
pronounced temporary vows and
three made their final vows in the
convent chapel. The novices who
made their final profession were
Sister Mary Carmel Fitzgerald,
Rochester, N. Y.; Sister Miriam
Blackwelder, Concord, N. C., and
Sister Concepla Walsh, Larchmont,
N. Y. The novices who made their
temporary profession were S^ister
Mary Anne Angert, Pittsburgh;
Sister Mary Eugenia Hartmann,
Charlotte, and Sister Mary Kath
leen McNamara, Donegal, Ireland.
Father Joseph celebrated the
Mass, with the Rev. Sebastian
Doris. O. S. B., and the Rev. An
selm Biggs. O. S. B., as deacon and
subdeacon, while Father Doran de
livered the sermon. Assisting in
the sanctuary were Father O’Neill,
Father Helfrick, Father Bernard
Rosswog, O. S. B., of Belmont Ab
bey, and Father James Cowan, of
Concord.
Music for the reception and the
Masses was rendered by the Sacred
Heart Academy choir. Judy Harri
son, Wilmington; Winifred Nichol
son. Salisbury. Gail Rodgers,
Greensboro, and Margaret Ballard,
Atlanta, acted as flowergirls.
After the profession Sister Mary
Carmel and Sister Miriam return
ed to Mercy School of Nursing
Pittsburgh; Sister Mary Concepta
to Sacred Heart Orphanage, Nazar
eth; Sister Mary Anne to St.
Scholastica College, Duluth, Minn.;
Sister Eugenia to Holy Redeemer
Convent, Newton Grove, and Sis
ter Kathleen to Sacred Heart
School, Salisbury.
ENSIGN BOND
(Special to The Bulletin))
COLUMBIA, S. C.—Mr. and
Mrs. James W. Bond, of Colum
bia, have recently received not
ice from the Navy Department
that their son, Ensign Robert Hous
on Bond, U.S.N.R., has been rist-
ed as “milling” following a motor
torpedo boat collision in the Pa
cific area.
Ensign Bond, a member of St.
Peter's parish, attended St. Peter’s
Parochial School, Columbia High
School, the University of South
Carolina, and graduated from ’the
School of Foreign Service of
Georgetown University, Washing
ton, D. C. He received his naval
training at the University of Notre
Dame and Northwestern Univer
sity, where he was commissioned
ensign. He has been on active
sea duty in the Pacific for the
past year.
Mr. and Mrs. Bond have three
other sons in their country’s ser
vice: Sergeant Owen W. Bond,
of Camp Reynolds, Pa:; Staff Ser
geant Louis C. Bond, of William
Northern Air Field, Tenn., and
Larry Bond, U.S.N.R. flight in
structor at Columbia, S. C.
One sitting will be enough for
John M. Haffert’s book FROM A
MORNING PRAYER (Scapular
Press, N. Y., $2.00), for it is filled
with a powerful spiritual interest
interwoven with lively incidents
of the author’s life, who is among
the foremost in spreading devotion
to the Scapular of Mt. Carmel. Mr.
Haffert once set out to become a
Carmelite father, but realizing that
such a vocation was not his, he re
turned to the world and later
found his real life’s work in
spreading devotion to Our Lady of
the Scapular, a work which was
almost miraculously pointed out to
him. Tht story begins with his
novitiate in the Carmelites and in
terestingly relates his spiritual as
sociations with a lowly, but saint
ly lay-brother from whom holy in
spirations were received. On re
turning to the world he knew not
which way to turn. He worked,
taught school and lectured, with
no life-plan ahead, but frequently
recalling the discussions between
himself and the lay-brother on a
Scapular Apostolate. The right
door to his life’s work was opened
to him when the Superior of the
Carmelites requested his services
in founding a Scapular Society,
publishing a magazine, and giving
Scapulars to boys in the service.
To that he is now contentedly de
voted.
Aside from the reading interests
naturally accruing from the rapid
style and subject matter of the
author, the reader will himself dis
cover a beautiful devotion, or re
vitalize one to which little thought
had previously been given.
GOD’S GUESTS OF TOMOR
ROW, by L. M. Dooley, S. V. D.,
another work from The Scapular
Press ($1.75), takes us on a visit
through Purgatory. The proof of
the existence of Purgatory is pre
supposed, so the book is not of an
argumentative nature. But it does
discuss the length and the pains of
Purgatory and devotes a chapter
.on The Sabbatine Privilege, a
privilege “originally granted by
Pope John XXII, in the year 1322,
as the result of a personal ap-
paration to the Pontiff of the Mo
ther of God”- The privilege states
that: “Those who wear the Brown
Scapular of the Blessed Virgin
(having been duly enrolled), and
who observe chastity, according to
their state and recite the office
shall be liberated from Purgatory
on the first Saturday after death
The book is only one hundred and
eleven pages in length, but is pro
vocative of a greater devotion to
the Poor Souls, not only with the
view of helping them but ourselves
also.
Mary Babyan Windeatt has writ
ten a beautiful little story for
children, but with much interest
tor adults, too in ANGEL OF THE
ANDES (St. Anthony Guild Press,
Paterson, N. J. $1.50), the story
of Saint Rose of Lima. St. Rose is
the first of the America’s saints.
Her life as a child, her piety, and
her holy life as a Dominican Terti
ary, together with her death and
subsequent miracles are related in
clear and simple language, and
will especially have a deep effect
on younger readers.
CARL M. REGAL
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Regal, mem
bers of St. Peter’s parish, Colum
bia, S. C., have been gladdened
by the news that their 19-year-old
son, Carl Marion Regal, aviation
machinist’s mate, third class, U. S.
Naval Reserve, who had been re
ported on February 29 as missing
in action, has been located in the
Pacific area and is now a patient
in a hospital.
Full details of his experience are
not known, but it is presumed that
he was wounded in action.
Sister Stanislaus
Dies in Charleston
Also of a deeply spiritual nature,
together with the previous books
reviewed here, is the collection of
poems in KING OF THE HILL, by
Sister Mary Eugene, S. S. N. D.
(St. Anthony Guild Press). The
title is taken from one of her
poems depicting two gangs of boys
each in youthful fight over the
possession of a hill. The contrast
is a mirthless world fighting for
the title “King pf the Hill” using
the earth as the hill.
James P. Flynn
Dies in Atlanta
ATLANTA, Ga. — James P.
Flynn, regional director of the
Railroad Section Qf the War Fin
ance Department, died on March
12 folowing a heart attack. Fun
eral services were held from the
Sacred Heart Church, the Rev.
F. M. Perry, S. M., officiating.
Born and reared in Atlanta, he
was the son of Mrs. M. E. Flynn
and the late J. J. Flynn. He had
been a conductor for the Southern
Railway for 35 years until 18
months ago, when he was loaned
to the War Finance Department of
the U. S, Treasury for the dura
tion.
He was a lieutenant in World
War X and was active in the Ameri
can Legion, and also prominent in
local civic and political circles.
He served on a local draft board.
Mr. Flynn was a member of the
Knights of Columbus, the Society
of St. Vincent de Paul, the Holy
Name Society, and the Ancient
Order of Hibernians.
Surviving are his wife; a daugh
ter, Miss Caroline Flynn, Atlanta;
his mother, of Cincinnati; five sis
ters, Mrs. Eugene Wrigley, Mrs.
A. P. Lutes, Mrs. T. J. Sears, At
lanta, Mrs. William L. Manning,
Charlotte, N. C., and Miss Caroline
Flynn, Cincinnati; two brothers, F.
P. E. Flynn, San Diego, Cal., and
Corporal Thomas L. Flynn, Miami.
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Funeral
services for Sister Mary Stanis
laus Hanley, of the Sisters of Our
Lady of Mercy, who died on March
8 at St. William’s Convent, Ward,
S. C., were held here from the
chapel of the Motherhouse of the
Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, the
Right Rev. Msgr. James J. May,
Vicar General of the Diocese of
Charleston, and rector of the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist,
offering the Requiem Mass.
A native of Charleston, Sister
Stanislaus was 71 years old. She
had been a member of the Sisters
of Our Lady of Mercy for more
than forty years and for six years
was superior of the convent here.
She is survived by three sisters,
ARMY AIR STUDENTS’
MONTHLY COMMUNION
AT CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
(By U. C. W. C. News Service)
RALEIGH, N. C.—Two hundred
and fifty Army aviation students
of the 59th College Training De
tachment at North Carolina State
College here, attended the second
monthly Mass and Communion at
the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.
The celebrant of the Mass was the
Rev. J. Jerome Hickey, assistant
rector of the Cathedral and spirit
ual adviser at the college.
Following the Mass, a breakfast
was served at the parish Women’s
Club, at which the Very Rev. Msgr.
J. Lennox Federal, rector of the
Cathedral, was the principal speak
er. Other speakers included Lieut.
Francis R. Shea, tactical officer,
and Lieut. Henry A. Frosch, pub
lic relations officer of the college.
Aviation Student Eugene J. Ober-
mayer was master of ceremonies.
In recent weeks, ten of the stud
ents have been converted to the
Catholic Faith. Early last month
the Most Rev. Eugene J. McGuin-
ness, Bishop of Raleigh, adminis
tered Confirmation to a class of
eleven men of the detachment.
CHARLES E. O’BRIEN
DIES IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Funeral
services were held from the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist for
Charles E. O’Brien who died March
22.
FORTY HOURS DEVOTION
AT PORT WENTWORTH
PORT WENTWORTH, Ga.—
Forty Hours Devotion were held
at Our Lady of Ixmrdes Church,
March 26-28, the Mass of Exposi
tion being celebrated by the Rey.
Gustave Obrecht, O. S. B., pastor
of St. Benedict’s Church, Savan
nah, with the Rev. Aloysius
Wachter, O- S. B„ of the Sacred
Heart Church, Savannah, deacon,
and the Rev. James H. Conlin,
chaplain of St. Joseph’s Hospital,
subdeacon. The Rev. Thomas 1.
Sheehan, pastor of Our Lady of
Lourdes Church, acted as master
of ceremonies.
The Right Rev. Msgr. T. James
McNamara, rector of the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist, Sa
vannah, delivered a series of ser
mons at the evening services.
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