Troparion to Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker
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The rule of faith and the image of meekness and abstinence as a teacher show you to your flock as the truth of things: for this reason you have acquired high humility, rich in poverty. Father Hierarch Nicholas, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
Translation:
The teacher showed you the rule of faith, the example of meekness and abstinence, to your flock. And therefore, through humility you acquired greatness, through poverty - wealth: Father Hierarch Nicholas, pray to Christ God for the salvation of our souls.
Kontakion to Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker
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In Mireh, the holy, the priest appeared: For Christ, O Reverend, having fulfilled the Gospel, you laid down your soul for your people, and saved the innocent from death; For this reason you have been sanctified, as the great hidden place of God’s grace.
Translation:
In the Worlds, you, saint, appeared as the performer of sacred rites: having fulfilled the Gospel teaching of Christ, you, reverend, laid down your soul for your people and delivered the innocent from death. That is why he was sanctified as a great minister of the sacraments of God’s grace.
Why do they order a prayer service?
Women often order a prayer service to the saint to get married and get rid of loneliness; they ask for support on a difficult journey, to get rid of life’s troubles and hunger.
Asking people note that he quickly responds to prayers. There is no specific list of cases that can be addressed. He helps in any matter.
Sincere prayer before the image of the saint helps:
- find your only soul mate;
- recover from complex diseases;
- improve your financial situation.
It doesn’t matter where the conversion will take place in a church or home environment. He always hears and will help.
First prayer to Nicholas the Ugodnik
Oh, all-holy Nicholas, exceedingly saintly servant of the Lord, our warm intercessor, and everywhere in sorrow a quick helper!
Help me, a sinner and sad person in this present life, beg the Lord God to grant me forgiveness of all my sins, which I have sinned greatly from my youth, in all my life, in deed, word, thought and all my feelings; and at the end of my soul, help me the accursed, beg the Lord God, the 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 ever and unto ages of ages.
Amen.
Third prayer to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
O all-praised and all-pious bishop, great Wonderworker, Saint of Christ, Father Nicholas, man of God and faithful servant, man of desires, chosen vessel, strong pillar of the church, bright lamp, shining star and illuminating the whole universe: you are a righteous man, like a blossoming date planted in the courts of your Lord, living in Myra, you were fragrant with the world, and the myrrh flowed with the ever-flowing grace of God.
By your procession, holy father, the sea was illuminated, when your many-wonderful relics marched into the city of Barsky, from east to west praise the name of the Lord.
O most graceful and wondrous Wonderworker, quick helper, warm intercessor, kind shepherd, saving the verbal flock from all troubles, we glorify 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 are glad, the naked are clothed , the sick physician, the sea-floating steward, the liberator of captives, the nourisher and protector of widows and orphans, the guardian of chastity, the meek chastiser of infants, the old fortification, the fasting mentor, the toiling rapture, the poor and wretched abundant wealth.
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 all, and every Christian country, and people living from all bitterness with your help:
We know, we know, how the prayer of the righteous can do much to hasten for good: for you, the righteous, according to the most blessed Virgin Mary, imams, intercessor to the All-Merciful God, and to yours, most kind father, warm intercession and intercession we humbly flow: you keep us as you are vigorous and kind shepherd, from all enemies, destruction, cowardice, hail, famine, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners, and in all our troubles and sorrows, give us a helping hand, and open the doors of God’s mercy, since we are unworthy to see the heights of heaven, from many of our iniquities are bound by the bonds of sin, and we have not done the will of our Creator nor have we preserved his commandments.
In the same way, we bow our contrite and humble hearts to our Creator, and we ask for your fatherly intercession to Him:
Help us, O Pleasant of God, so that we do not perish with our iniquities, deliver us from all evil and from all things that are resistant, guide our minds and strengthen our hearts in the right faith, in it through your intercession and intercession, neither with wounds, nor rebuke, nor pestilence, he will give me no wrath to live in this age, and he will deliver me from this place, and he will make me worthy to join all the saints. Amen.
Birth, adolescence and youth
Saint Nicholas was born in the Lycian city of Patar (now the territory of Turkey). His mother and father were wealthy and God-fearing people.
The behavior of the newborn was not typical of an ordinary baby; from birth he kept a certain fast: on Wednesdays and Fridays he tasted mother's milk only once a day, and slept the rest of the time.
When the boy grew up and began to study science, his remarkable abilities were revealed. He especially excelled in Biblical knowledge. The boy did not like idle conversations with his peers and avoided communicating with them, did not take part in entertainment events, and did not watch theatrical performances, which were often obscene in nature.
The bishop of the city of Patara, Nicholas's uncle, especially valued his nephew and his love for God. He contributed to the young man’s ordination to the priesthood, after which Nicholas began to be even stricter about himself, his lifestyle and training.
After the death of his parents, he received a large and rich inheritance. But it did not bring joy to the future saint, so the young man asked the Almighty to show him how to properly dispose of the inheritance. To which he was instructed from Above to distribute his property to the poor and needy people.
Prayer four to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
O our good shepherd and God-wise mentor, Saint Nicholas of Christ! Hear us sinners, praying to you and calling for your speedy intercession for help; see us weak, caught from everywhere, deprived of every good and darkened in mind from cowardice; Try, O servant of God, not to leave us in the captivity of sin, so that we may not joyfully become our enemies and not die in our evil deeds.
Pray for us, unworthy, to our Creator and Master, to whom you stand with disembodied faces: make our God merciful to us in this life and in the future, so that He will not reward us according to our deeds and 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 on your intercession for help, and falling to your most holy image, we ask for help: deliver us, servant of Christ, from the evils that come upon us, and tame the waves of passions and troubles that rise up against us, and for the sake of Your holy prayers will not overwhelm us and we will not wallow in the abyss of sin and in the mud of our passions. Pray to Saint Nicholas of Christ, Christ our God, that he may grant us a peaceful life and remission of sins, salvation and great mercy for our souls, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
How to pray for a love miracle
Life should proceed with unceasing prayer, but prayer is worth learning. This is work for which you need to prepare.
Prayer for love
Words of prayer without their deep meaning will fly into the void.
- an appeal to Nicholas must come from the heart;
- when calling for help, you must believe in receiving it;
- You can pray both in church and at home;
- if there is no icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker on your home iconostasis or at hand, then you need to mentally imagine his holy face.
Prayers for love:
- Prayer for a quick meeting with your soulmate
- Prayers to Saints Peter and Fevronia
- Prayers to Matrona of Moscow for love
A prayer to Nicholas the Wonderworker for love will definitely be heard and the request will be fulfilled, because the saint is not indifferent to the problems of people.
The main thing is to believe in it and soon everyone who asks will experience a gracious feeling of love!
Fifth prayer to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
O great intercessor, the bishop of God, the Most Blessed Nicholas, who shone miracles under the sun, appearing as a quick hearer to those who call upon you, who always precede them and save them, and deliver them, and take them away from all sorts of troubles, from these 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, saint of heights! as if you have the boldness, soon stand before the Lady, and reverently stretch out your hands in prayer to Him for me, a sinner, and grant me the bounty of goodness from Him, and accept me into your intercession, and deliver me from all troubles and evils, from the invasion of enemies visible and invisible freeing, and destroying all those slander and malice, and reflecting those who fight me throughout my life; for my sins, ask for forgiveness, and present me saved to Christ and be worthy to receive the Kingdom of Heaven for the abundance of that love for mankind, to which 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 centuries.
Prayer six to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
Oh, all-good Father Nicholas, shepherd and teacher of all who flow by faith to your intercession, and who call on you with warm prayer, quickly strive and deliver the flock of Christ from the wolves that destroy it, that is, from the invasion of the evil Latins who are rising against us.
Protect and preserve our country, and every country existing in Orthodoxy, with your holy prayers from worldly rebellion, the sword, the invasion of foreigners, from internecine and bloody warfare.
And just as you had mercy on three men imprisoned, and you delivered them from the king’s wrath and the beating of the sword, so have mercy and delivered the Orthodox people of Great, Little and White Rus' from the destructive heresy of the Latin.
For through your intercession and help, and through His mercy and grace, may Christ God look with His merciful eye on people who exist in ignorance, even though they have not known their right hand, especially young people, by whom the Latin seductions are spoken to turn away from the Orthodox faith, may he enlighten the minds of His people, may they not be tempted and fall away from the faith of their fathers, may their conscience, lulled by vain wisdom and ignorance, awaken and turn their will to the preservation of the holy Orthodox faith, may they remember the faith and humility of our fathers, may their life be for the Orthodox faith who have laid down and accepted the warm prayers of His holy saints, who have shone in our land, keeping us from the delusion and heresy of the Latin, so that, having preserved us in holy Orthodoxy, He will grant us at His terrible Judgment to stand on the right hand with all the saints. Amen.
Christian service and miracles
It is known that Nikolai saved one of the local families from shame. The head of the family, previously a wealthy city dweller, raised three daughters. They were in great need and the desperate father decided to send his daughters to engage in fornication, thereby earning a living and food.
The saint completely accidentally found out about the man’s sinful intentions and at night secretly threw a bag filled with gold coins into his window. When the poor man discovered gold, he was very surprised, considered it a help from Above and set aside money for a dowry for the eldest of his daughters, whom he soon married off.
After some time, the Wonderworker helped the second girl and again threw a bundle of money into the familiar window. When the unfortunate father discovered him, he began to frantically pray to God to tell him the name of the savior. Soon a second wedding took place and the man realized that similar magic awaited his third daughter. Nikolai again put money out the window, but the owner tracked down the night benefactor and caught up, tearfully thanking him for his help. The saint made the man promise that he would never tell his name to anyone.
Life of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
From this miracle, a folk tradition has developed that on the morning of the Nativity of Christ, children find gifts neatly folded under the Christmas tree by St. Nicholas the Wonderworker under the cover of darkness.
Time passed and Nicholas was elevated to presbyter, and soon the primate of the Lycian Church died. At the assembled council, one of the bishops suggested asking God for advice in electing a new primate. Several members of the congregation had a vision that a high position would be awarded to the person who would be the first to enter the temple in the morning. By God's providence, this man turned out to be Saint Nicholas; on the same day he was presented by the bishop to the people and clergy. The surprised saint tried to refuse the honor given to him, but upon learning that it was the will of God, he agreed. He understood the burden of enormous responsibility not only for saving himself, but also for saving people, which fell on his shoulders.
Father Nikolai, despite his honorary rank, remained a model of humility, love and meekness. His clothes were simple, he had no jewelry, he ate only once a day, and he always hurried at any time of the day or night to anyone who needed his advice and help.
In 302, the Roman Empire actively fought against Christians. The soldiers forcibly forced people to renounce Christ and begin to worship idols. This fate did not escape Saint Nicholas, and he was arrested for opposing the authorities. Like everyone in captivity, he was subject to severe torture. In 311, the saint was released from prison, and he again served the Almighty, healing the passions and ailments of people.
Radiological studies of the incorruptible relics of the saint carried out in the recent past indicated bone disorders that are characteristic of people who have been in a damp and cold room for a long time. This fact indicates that Nicholas was kept in custody for a long time, but the Heavenly Father took care of his warrior, the future luminary of the Church of Christ.
Life of Nikolai Ugodnik
Nicholas waged an active battle against paganism, which even Emperor Constantine was unable to ban, anticipating the risk of a state rebellion.
What else do they pray to Nikolai Ugodnik for:
- Prayer for good luck and luck
- Prayer for anxiety about the future
- Prayer for family
At that time, the Christian Church was persecuted by the Aryan heresy, sects and movements fraught with danger for Christians. In 325, Tsar Constantine convened an Ecumenical Council in Nicaea, at which the heresy of Arius was cursed, the “Creed” was born, and the main provisions of the Orthodox faith were approved. Saint Nicholas took an active part in the Council and, in a fit of zeal for God, struck the heretic Arius, who blasphemed the Almighty, for which he was imprisoned. In prison, the Most Pure Virgin and Her Son Jesus Christ visited him, presenting the martyr with the Gospel and an omophorion. The vision of the Lord and the Mother of God visiting the prisoner visited several bishops. Arriving at the prison, they saw the prisoner wearing an omophorion and holding the Gospel in his hands. Nicholas was immediately released, elevated to the rank of bishop and glorified as a Pleasant of God.
