Holy Name of Jesus 2026
Processional hymn: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise, 820
Recessional hymn: Joy to the World, 806
Credo III, 776
Kyriale: Missa Quaeramus cum pastoribus, Cristóbal de Morales (c.1500–1553)
Motet after Offertory: In Nomine Jesu, Jacobus Gallus
Motet at Communion: Jesu Dulcis Memoria, Cornelius Schmuck (1814–1903)
Both choral selections focus on the feast celebrates this Sunday of the Holy Name. Jesu, Dulcis Memoria is a celebrated 12th century hymn attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. The entire hymn has some 42 to 53 stanzas depending upon the manuscript and five verses were chosen for the Vespers hymn of this feast. 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.