Mary MacKillop Buc was commissioned by the Shire of Glenelg to write an hour-long cantata mass for the centenary of the death of Mary MacKillop. It was premiered by the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic in Portland, Victoria. The "Mass of Mary McKillop" is a setting for congregational singing, composed by Joshua Cowie. Hymns specifically used in St Mary of the Cross celebrations including "A Saint for Today" and "Mary MacKillop, Woman of Australia" by Josephite Sister Margaret Cusack, and "If I Could Tell The Love of God", "In Love God Leads Us" and "Psalm 103" by Jesuit Priest Christopher Willcock. MacKillop is also
Veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church centuries, Marian devotions among Roman Catholics have included many examples of personal or collective acts of consecration and entrustment to the Virgin Mary; the Latin terms "oblatio", "servitus", "commendatio", and "dedicatio" were used in this context. Consecration is an act by which a person is dedicated to a sacred service, or an act which separates an object, location or region from a common and profane mode to one for sacred use. The Catholic Church makes it clear that "...the faithful should be carefully instructed about the practice of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary...it is, in reality, only analogously a