Chapter 2SvVac.1.2
Ty jsi dědic české země
A Plea for National Protection
The hymn invokes Saint Wenceslas as the patron of the Czech people, concluding with a humble cry for divine mercy.
You are the heir of the Czech land; remember your people. Saint Wenceslas, do not let us perish, nor those yet to come!1 Christ, have mercy!
Read the original Latin
Ty jsi dědic české země, rozpomeň se na své plémě; nedej zahynouti nám i budoucím, svatý Václave! Kriste eleison!
Notes
- 1 ↩Czech plémě means people, stock, or lineage; rendered as people, the usual sense in this chorale petition.
Saint Wenceslas Chorale companion
Never lose the rhythm again
Chosen Portion delivers your morning, midday and night office to your phone — the Hours, without the bells.
Chosen Portion is a modern Book of Hours: it turns the fixed-hour structure this collection preserves into scheduled, tappable daily prayer on your phone.
- Three daily prayer moments scheduled around your real calendar, not a monastery's
- Psalms and historic prayers sequenced for you — no page-flipping or decision fatigue
- A visible streak of completed offices, so the rhythm compounds instead of collapsing