Pentecost 2025
Hymn prior to Mass: Veni Creator Spiritus, 956
Recessional hymn: Come Down, O Love Divine, 887
Kyriale: I, 696; Credo: III, 776
Marian antiphon: Regina Cœli, Solemn Chant
Communion antiphon: Factus Est Repente, Jacobus Gallus
The communion antiphon takes its text from Acts 2: “Suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming where they were sitting, alleluia; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, speaking the wonderful works of God, alleluia, alleluia.” Jacobus Gallus uses wide intervals in each voice to make the sound from heaven followed by pairs of voices creating the mighty wind. The whole motet ends with rhythmic two fold repeat of Alleluias.
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.