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HOMI LY
Bishop Peter Ingham
PRESENTATION AND DEPOS ITING
OF THE REL IC
Over the last few weeks a piece of the wood from the original casket
of St Mary MacKillop has rested in St Mary Mother of God Church,
Leppington (the northern Mass centre of the parish). Today this relic
was carried by parishioners who undertook a pilgrimage from the
northern Mass centre to this church (the southern Mass centre of
the parish). This relic will now be processed into the new church by
some of these pilgrims and deposited in an aperture in the altar.
During this procession and depositing of the relic the following
hymn is sung:
The cross is my portion - it is my sweet rest and support.
I could not be happy without my cross -
I would not lay it down for all the world could give.
With the cross I am happy, but without it I would be lost.
M A R Y M A C K I L L O P ( 1 8 7 2 )
The Cross is My Portion
Jen Charadia
The cross is my portion
My sweet rest, my great strenth
The cross is my portion
I will not lay it down
I will not lay it down
For all the world could give.
© 2010, Jen Charadia, Renewal Publications
Used with permission, Word of Life International Lic No 2826E