Today there are so many people, so many "Christians," who endlessly declaim about the purification of our national cultural life, about its Christianization. They talk about the "tradition of Saint Wenceslas," but they know nothing about it; they think only of the vague reconciliation of the holy prince, although this is a point that was certainly least emphasized by our ancestors in the life of Saint Wenceslas. To them, Saint Wenceslas was primarily a warrior, a strong and invincible warrior whose faith in the help of the King of Heaven...
Over Europe, which despite all its amazing flaws nonetheless best fulfilled His message of salvation, Christ bends down and weeps perhaps with tears of compassion for His brothers, who must recognize in such a way how incredibly miserable and powerless they are without Him. God, protect us from littleness and the rotten, limited selfishness. Every hour of trial, like today’s, is also a moment when the redemption of the world is completed. We would be cowards deserving of eternal contempt if we were to indulge in our petty personal worries now, if we criminally wanted to proceed with our pleasures saying, "It doesn't concern us"...
The heart of a true disciple of Christ loves peace, but never procures it through compromises with deceitful hypocrites, knows no compromise with the satanic pride that – when it is running out of breath – babbles confusedly about the endangered culture.
(Adolf Kajpr SJ /1902–1959/;
excerpts from three texts on Saint Wenceslas published in the magazine Dorost:
the first two paragraphs were published on the eve of World War II in June and September 1939;
the third paragraph in September 1945; quoted from the book The Present is God's Time Itself. Refugium 2021)
