When we gather together all that we have said concerning the Orthodox Church, we arrive at the inevitable conclusion that she is the church of Slavdom, and the future.
O holy Church of our fathers, who first blessed our tribes with Christianity from the summits of Nitra, Velehrad and Vyšehrad! Who was once set to unite in spirit the entire family of our nations! O, return Thou to us! Lift up our hearts toward the Eternal and nourish our soul, so that it might realise its magnificent calling. Nearly all of our tribes, the Czechs as well as the Slovaks, the Poles and the Croats, once rested upon Thy bosom, O Thou mother of the Slavs! Only when the foreigners irrupted into our lands to rule over us wert Thou banished and the Catholic Church introduced, which solidified foreign overlordship o
