Prayers to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

O all‑benevolent Father Nicholas, by God’s will shepherd and teacher of all, to whom those with firm faith and trust in the Lord turn through you for His protection, and with warm prayer beseech you: hasten, by God’s power and grace, to protect the flock of Christ from the wolves that would devour it. Protect and preserve our Ukraine, and every Christian nation, and the whole world, by your holy prayers, from earthquakes, the onslaught of foreign enemies, popular uprisings, civil wars; from famine, pestilence, flood, fire, sword, and the brazen death that threatens every person. And as you had mercy on the three men who were in prison and saved them from the king’s wrath and the penalty of death, so have mercy on us, who, by mind, word, and deed, dwell in the darkness of sin. Protect us from the consequences we have earned, and even more from eternal hellish torment, but that, through our prayers and your intercession and aid, and by His grace and mercy, Christ God may grant us sincere repentance, conversion and humility, to live quietly and without sin on this earth, and not condemn us to stand on the left, but grant us to stand on the right with all the saints. Amen.

O holy hierarch Nicholas! Hear us, sinful servants of God (names), who pray to the Lord, and intercede for us, imperfect ones, our Creator and Ruler, together with us, bless our God to be merciful to us in this present life and in the life to come, that He may repay us not for our deeds, but for His mercy. By the love and grace of the Lord, deliver us, O beloved of Christ, from the evil that finds us, calm the waves of passions and poverty that rise against us. May, for the sake of our supplications and your holy prayer, misfortune not engulf us nor drown us in the abyss of sin and in the swamp of our passions. Be with us in prayer, holy Nicholas, Christ our God, that He may grant us true repentance and the ability to do works of goodness and mercy, a peaceful life and the remission of sins, and to our souls—salvation and great mercy, now, always, and forevermore. Amen.

Source: kyrios.org.ua