The rule of faith and the image of meekness,/ the self-control of the teacher/ will show you to your flock/ even the truth of things;/ for this reason you have acquired high humility,/ rich in poverty./ Father Superior Nicholas,/ pray to Christ God // to save our souls.
In Mireh, holy, the priest appeared to you:/ For Christ, the reverend, having fulfilled the Gospel,/ you laid down your soul for your people/ and you saved the innocent from death; // for this reason you were sanctified, like the great hidden place of God’s grace.
Oh, all-holy Nicholas, most saintly saint of the Lord, our warm intercessor and quick helper everywhere in sorrow. Help me, a sinner and a sad person, in this life, beg the Lord God to grant me forgiveness of all my sins, most of which I have sinned from my youth, in all my life, in deed, in word, with my thoughts and all my feelings, and at the end of my soul, help the accursed one, beg the Lord God, Creator of all creation, to deliver me from airy ordeals and eternal torment, May I always glorify the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit and your merciful intercession, now and forever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.
O all-good Father Nicholas, shepherd and teacher of all who flow by faith to your intercession and call upon you with warm prayer, quickly strive and deliver the flock of Christ from the wolves that are destroying e, and protect every Christian country and save it with your holy prayers from worldly rebellion, cowardice, invasion of foreigners and civil strife, from famine, flood, fire, sword and vain deaths.
And just as you had mercy on three men sitting in prison, and you delivered them from the king’s wrath and the beating of the sword, so have mercy on me, in mind, word and deed in the darkness sins, and deliver me from the wrath of God and eternal punishment, for through your intercession and help, and with His mercy and grace, Christ God will give me a quiet and sinless life live in this world and will deliver me from my standing, and will make my right hand with all the saints. Amen.
O our good shepherd and God-wise mentor, Saint Nicholas of Christ! Hear us sinners (names), praying to you and calling for your quick intercession for help; see us weak, caught from everywhere, deprived of every good and darkened in mind from cowardice; Try, O saint of God, not to leave us in sinful captivity, so that we may not joyfully be our enemies and not die in our evil deeds.
Pray for us, unworthy of our Creator and Master, to whom you stand with the disembodied faces: be merciful to us by our God in this life and in the future, so that He will not reward us according to our deeds and according to the impurity of our hearts, but according to His goodness He will reward us.
We trust in your intercession, we boast of your intercession, we call upon your intercession for help, and we fall to your most holy image for help: deliver us, saint of Christ, from evils coming upon us, and tame the waves of passions and troubles that rise against us, so that for the sake of your holy prayers they will not attack us and we will not sink into the abyss of sin and in the mud of our passions.
Pray to Saint Nicholas of Christ, Christ our God, that He will grant us a peaceful life and remission of sins, and salvation and great mercy for our souls, now and ever and unto the ages centuries. Amen.
O great intercessor, the bishop of God, the Most Blessed Nicholas, who showed miracles under the sun, and you are a quick hearer of those who call upon you, to whom you always foresee and save, and You deliver, and take away all kinds of troubles, from God given miracles and gifts of grace! Hear me, unworthy, calling you with faith and bringing you prayer songs; I offer you an intercessor to plead with Christ.
Oh, renowned for miracles, the height of the saint! For I have boldness, present yourself soon to the Master, and bend your hands in prayer to Him for me, a sinner, and from Him grant me bounty and kindness, and accept my name into yours. intercession, and deliver me from all troubles and evils, freeing me from the invasion of enemies, visible and invisible, and destroying all those slander and evil tricks, and reflecting those who fight me throughout my life; For my sins, ask for forgiveness, and present me to Christ for salvation and grant the Kingdom of Heaven for the abundance of His love for mankind, and to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His beginningless Father, and with the Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
O all-validated and all-honorable bishop, great miracle worker, saint of Christ, Father Nicholas, man of God and faithful servant, husband of desires, chosen vessel, strong pillar church, bright lamp, shining star and illuminating the whole universe. You are a righteous man, like a flourishing phoenix, planted in the palace of your Lord, living in Mireh, you are fragrant with peace and the peace flows with the ever-flowing grace of God. By your procession, most holy father, the sea was sanctified, when your many miraculous relics marched to the city of Barsky, from east to west to praise the name of the Lord.
O most graceful and wonderful miracle worker, quick helper, warm intercessor, kind shepherd, saving the verbal flock from all troubles! We glorify you and magnify you, as the hope of all Christians, the source of miracles, the protector of the faithful, the wise teacher, those who hunger for a feeder, those who cry joy, the naked garment, the sick doctor, the steward floating on the sea, the liberator's captives, the widows and orphans of the nourisher and protector, the guardian of chastity, the babies of the gentle punisher, the old fortifications, the fasting mentor, rest for the toilers, abundant wealth for the poor and needy.
Hear us praying to you and running under your roof, show your intercession for us to the Most High and intercede with your God-pleasing prayers everything useful for the salvation of our souls and bodies: preserve this holy monastery (or this temple), every city and the whole, and every Christian country, and people living from every bitterness with your help, we know, we know, how much can the prayer of the righteous, hastening for good; To you, the righteous one, according to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, the representative to the All-Merciful God of the Imama, and to your, most gracious Father, warm intercession and intercession we humbly flow: you keep us, as cheerful and good shepherd, from all enemies, destruction, cowardice, hail, famine, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners, and in all our troubles and sorrows, give us your hand help, and open the doors of God’s mercy: for we are unworthy to see the heights of heaven, because of the multitude of our untruths, we are bound by sinful bonds, and not by the will of our Creator created, nor kept His commandments.
Moreover, we bend our knees, contrite and humble of our hearts to our Creator, and we ask for your fatherly intercession to Him: help us, servant of God, so that we do not perish from lawlessness ours, deliver us from all evil and from all things resistant, guide our minds and strengthen our hearts in the right faith, in it through your intercession and intercession, neither with wounds, nor with rebuke, nor by pestilence, we will not be diminished by any wrath from our Creator, but we will live a peaceful life here and may we be honored to see good things on the earth of the living, glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, One in the Trinity is God glorified and worshiped, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
O Saint Nicholas of Christ! Hear us, sinners, praying to you (name) and calling for your quick intercession for help. Make our God merciful to us, so that in His goodness He will give us (the content of the petition). Deliver us, saint of Christ, from the evils that come upon us, and send us your help in every need and need of life. Amen.
Memorial Days May 9/22, December 6/19
Saint Nicholas is one of the most beloved saints in Rus'. For his merciful and compassionate heart, he was granted numerous spiritual gifts from God. Life of St. Nicholas is full of various miracles and cases of help, both during his life and after his departure from earth. Participating in the First Ecumenical Council, he denounced the wicked Arius and, in a fit of jealousy, even hit him in the face. For the latter he was punished, but was soon acquitted by the command of the Most Holy Theotokos Herself, who appeared to several fathers of the Council. St. Nicholas is one of the most revered saints in Rus'; travelers pray to him for help in various everyday difficulties, for the life of children, for marriage, for healing in various ailments.
*Minea. December 6th.
**Minea. May 9th.
St. Page Nicholas in the calendar