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.
Oh, all-merciful 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.
Oh, all-blessed Saint Spyridon, great saint of Christ and glorious miracle worker! Stand in Heaven before the Throne of God with the face of an Angel, look with your merciful eye on the people standing here and asking for your powerful help. Pray to the compassion of God, the Lover of Mankind, not to judge us according to our iniquities, but to deal with us according to His mercy! Ask us from Christ and our God for a peaceful and serene life, mental and physical health, the earth’s prosperity and all abundance and prosperity in everything, and may we not turn the good things given to us into evil generous God, but for His glory and for the glorification of your intercession! Deliver all those who come to God through undoubted faith from all spiritual and physical troubles, from all yearnings and the devil’s slander! Be a comforter to the sad, a physician to the sick, a helper in times of adversity, a protector to the naked, a protector to widows, a protector to the poor, a nourisher to the infant, a strengthener to the old, a guide to the wandering, Helmsman afloat and intercede for everyone your strong help that requires everything, even useful for salvation! Because by your prayers we are instructed and observed, we will reach eternal rest and together with you we will glorify God, in the Trinity of Saints we glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Oh, holy servant of God, John! Having fought a good fight on earth, you received in Heaven the crown of righteousness, which the Lord has prepared for all who love Him. Moreover, looking at your holy image, we rejoice at the glorious end of your life and honor your holy memory. But you, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring them to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us to stand against the wiles of the devil, so that we may be freed from sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present world and we will be worthy of your intercession, even if we are unworthy, to see good things on the earth of the living, glorifying One in His saints glorify God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Oh, blessed mother Matrono, with your soul standing in Heaven before the Throne of God, but with your body resting on earth and with the grace given to you from above, various miracles flow, look now upon your merciful ones look upon us sinners, in sorrows, illnesses and sinful temptations, waiting for our days, comfort us, desperate ones, heal our fierce ailments, from God to us according to our sins forgiven, deliver us from many troubles and circumstances, beg our Lord Jesus Christ to forgive us all our sins, lawlessness and fall from grace, for which we have been from our youth even to this day and We have sinned for hours, so that through your prayers, having received grace and great mercy, we glorify in the Trinity the One God, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
1 Menaion. May 9th.
2 Canon. Canon to Saint Spyridon, wonderworker, Bishop of Trimifuntsky.
3 Menaion. April 19th.