A wonderful mystery is declared today: natures are renewed, God hath become man: He has remained what He was, and taken on what He was not, suffering neither mixture nor division. (Antiphon at the Benedictus for Lauds of the Circumcision.)
Aña Mirábile mysterium * declarátur hodie: innovantur natúrae, Deus homo factus est: id quod fuit permansit, et quod non erat assumpsit, non commixtiónem passus, neque divisiónem.
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The Circumcision of the Lord, and the beginning of the Mass for the feast, from the Salzburg Missal. |
A polyphonic setting of this text by the Slovene composer Jacob Handl (1550-91), also known as Jacobus Gallus.