The program was attended, for example, by Czech and Moravian bishops, the presidency of the Ecumenical Council of Churches (ERC) and Chief Regional Rabbi Karol Efraim Sidon. The chairman of the ERC is Tomáš Tyrlík, bishop of the Silesian Church of the Evangelical Augsburg Confession.
At the beginning of the ceremony, the Archbishop of Prague gave a speecha passage from the Bible was read by a Prague rabbi, and then the Archbishop of Prague said a prayer for the homeland. “Dear Mr. President, it is not only at this moment that we ask God for gifts for your service to the country,” said the archbishop.
Paul then bowed skull of st. Wenceslas, brought for this purpose from the jewelry store in the Cathedral of St. Welcome to the chapel. The hymn of St. Wenceslas, the oldest Czech spiritual song Lord, have mercy on us, and the national anthem was sung. After that, all participants of the ceremony in the chapel will move to places in the new part of the cathedral.
There, the Czech Philharmonic and the Prague Philharmonic Choir performed next to the national anthem, three symbolic works – Meditation on the Old Bohemian chant of St. Wenceslas by Josef Suk, part of the oratorio St. Ludmila by Antonín Dvořák and Te Deum by the same composer.
Czech Philharmonic composition He plays the Te Deum only exceptionally. Jakub Hrůš also conducted the Te Deum in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle during the state visit of Pope Benedict XVI in September 2009. In May 2016, the piece was performed by the first Czech orchestra under the baton of Jiří Bělohlávek in the St. Vitus Cathedral on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the birth of Charles IV.
