The Holy Name of Jesus 2025
Processional hymn: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise, 820
Recessional hymn: The First Nowell, 808
Credo V, 784
Kyriale: Mass for 4 Voices, William Byrd (c.1540–1623)
Motet after Offertory: In Nomine Jesu, Jacobus Gallus
Motet at Communion: Alma Redemptoris Mater, a5, Reverend Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1548–1611)
During Advent and Christmastide until February 2 the proper Marian antiphon sung at compline and for other occasions is Alma Redemptoris Mater. The choir will sing the composition by Father Victoria set for five voices. In Nomine Jesu is a simple setting of the introit by Jacobus Gallus. The introit is shared with the Wednesday of Holy Week with some alterations to the text most notably the Holy Name present in the opening incipit.
Jacobus Gallus (1550–1591), was a late-Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity. Born in Carniola, which at the time was one of the Habsburg lands in the Holy Roman Empire, he lived and worked in Moravia and Bohemia during the last decade of his life. His output was both sacred and secular, and hugely prolific: over 500 works have been attributed to him.