Holy Family 2026
Processional hymn: Of the Father’s Love Begotten, 810
Recessional hymn: Once in Royal David’s City, 818
Credo III, 776
Kyriale: Missa Quaeramus cum pastoribus, Cristóbal de Morales (c.1500–1553)
Offertory motet: O Admirabile Commercium, Fabio Constantini
Communion motet: Alma Reddemptoris Mater, a5, Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1548–1611)
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.