2nd Sunday After Epiphany
Processional hymn: Praise to the Lord, 927
Recessional hymn: Come Down, O Love Divine, 887
Credo IV, 780, Kyriale IV, 710
Offertory motet: Alma Redemptoris Mater, GP Palestrina (c. 1547–1580)
Communion motet: O Admirabile Commercium, Fabio Constantini (c. 1575–1644)
O Admirabile Commercium, is a motet by Fabio Constantini and setting of the first Antiphon from Vespers on the Octave of Christmas. The translation is: O admirable exchange: the creator of human-kind, taking on a living body was worthy to be born of a virgin, and, coming forth as a human without seed, has given us his deity in abundance.
Fabio Constantini (c. 1575–1644) was an Italian music editor and composer. He sang under Palestrina at St Peter’s, Rome (until 1610), and held posts as maestro di cappella, notably at Orvieto Cathedral (1610-14, 1618-22), Santa Casa, Loreto, Ancona and Ferrara Cathedral.