When is Nicholas Day in the spring? Summer Nicholas the Wonderworker: when is celebrated, history, rituals, signs and sayings

Chosen Wonderworker and great servant of Christ, Father Nicholas! Exuding to the whole world a valuable myrrh and an inexhaustible sea of miracles, you build up spiritual fortresses, and I praise you as a lover, blessed Saint Nicholas: you, as if you have boldness in the Lord, free me from all troubles, so I call you: Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker!

May 22 is a special day in Orthodox calendar. It is on this day that believers celebrate the Day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. It is also called Nikolay Letniy, because the winter holiday is celebrated on December 19, and the autumn holiday on August 11. All these holidays are dedicated to one historical figure- Saint Nicholas, who is revered by both Orthodox and Catholics.

Editorial “So Simple!” today he will tell you what it is bright holiday and how to mark it.

Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in May

Why is St. Nicholas Day celebrated three times a year? Essentially it's three different holidays. In December, Nicholas is venerated on the day of his death, and in August on his birthday. The summer holiday marks the day when the relics of Nicholas were transferred to Bari.

Saint Nicholas is the most beloved saint of all believers; they go to him for the fulfillment of desires, help in business, it is from him that they ask for additions to the family and for the health of their children. The saint is considered the patron saint of wanderers, the needy, sailors, innocent prisoners and children. Nikolai became famous for his good deeds and helping the suffering, and also went down in history as one of the main Wonderworkers.

Nicholas's summer holiday has a lot folk traditions and customs that are not related to the life of the saint, but are very revered by believers. Today we will talk about the features, signs and prohibitions of this bright holiday.

Now you know what you should and shouldn't do on St. Nicholas Day. In addition, don’t forget that on this bright day you definitely need to pray to cleanse your thoughts and heart. It definitely won't be too much. Spend this day with your family, doing your usual activities and devoting time to prayer.

And don’t forget that, after all, there are special signs and prohibitions.

Twice a year in the Christian world the holiday of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker takes place (May 22 and December 19). There are many signs, rituals and traditions associated with this holiday. Nicholas is revered as a great miracle worker who is able to cure diseases. Most often, poor, homeless and sick people ask him for help, because only he is able to help them. People have long believed that on May 22, warm and pleasant spring weather comes to the Feast of the Wonderworker.

Story

Saint Nicholas is a great saint of God, a saint and a miracle worker. He died in the middle of the 4th century. His name is known in all corners of the globe. Temples, cathedrals, and monasteries were and continue to be named in honor of the saint. It is difficult to find a city in Russia that does not have St. Nicholas Church or the Church of St. Nicholas.

The relics of the saint were kept in Lycian cathedral church until hard times fell on Greece at the end of the 8th century. The Turks constantly ravaged its territories, plundered and burned cities, and desecrated holy places. They sought to destroy the remains of St. Nicholas, whom all Christian people deeply revered. In 1087, residents of the city of Bar came to Myra specifically to take the relics of the saint. To do this, they had to tie up the monk guards. On May 8, the ship arrived in the city, and the next day the saint’s relics were solemnly brought into the Church of St. Stephen, where they remain to this day.

What cannot be done on the church holiday of May 22, and what should be done?

IN church holiday Nicholas the Pleasant on May 22, under no circumstances should you do everything just for yourself. A person who rejects a request for help on this day will be haunted by failure and losses for seven years. It is believed that on this holiday you need to do at least five good deeds, and then the year will be successful. The benefits of May 22 are simple, but needed by those who are poor and hungry, writes the Ros-Registr website. Give toys and sweets to children in need.

Bake delicious cookies and give the treats to the children in the yard. Sprinkle the corners of your home with holy water, and the year will be happy and rich. After praying, ask Nikolai for something good and good, and your wish will come true, although not immediately. Help an orphan or a beggar with clothes, food and money, and your action will please St. Nicholas the Pleasant. In the evening, have fun, dance, cover festive table, invite your familiar children and their friends to visit you. On May 22, you need to have fun and help other people in every possible way.

May 22: signs and beliefs

Rain on Nikola Veshniy means a good harvest.
If the frogs croak at Nikola, then the oats will be good.
Before St. Nicholas, don’t shear sheep, don’t drink buckwheat, don’t swim in ponds.
A dream from May 21 to 22 will come true for people born on this day. A dream seen on the day of May 22 will come true in 5 years, when you will already have forgotten about it.

Prayer to Nicholas the Wonderworker

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, Creator of all creation, to deliver me air 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.

Many have heard about such a Saint as Nicholas the Wonderworker. The Orthodox greatly honor the holidays dedicated to him, and there are three of them a year! So, for example, on the eleventh of August, believers first celebrate the birth of this Saint. And the nineteenth of December is the Day of the Death of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. What is celebrated on May 22? The holiday of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker on this day is dedicated to the transfer of the relics of the Saint. Why is this event so important?

Origin of the holiday

Of course, this holiday would not have happened if St. Nicholas the Wonderworker had not existed. This man is not a legend, he really lived at the turn of the third and fourth centuries AD. He was born into a rich family, his parents asked for a child for a very long time, and God sent them a son when Nikolai’s mother promised that if a child was born, they would send him to study religion. It so happened that the parents of the future Saint died early, and Nicholas studied science, religion and was a hermit for a long time.
Nicholas truly devoted his entire life to Christianity, and was one of the bishops who founded the first Ecumenical Council. As it is written in history books, Nikolai helped everyone he could - he gave his fortune, which he began to own after the death of his parents, to the poor. He also saved his city from starvation, could resurrect sailors who had fallen overboard, and once saved the lives of several military leaders who had become victims of slander. There is another story connected with this Saint. It says that Nicholas the Wonderworker learned about a family that had three daughters. They had no dowry, and their father decided to take advantage of their beauty to earn at least something. Nikolai decided to help the girls and threw a bag of gold out the window - so the father was able to marry off his first daughter. Then the situation repeated with the second daughter, and when Nikolai threw the bag for the third time, the overjoyed father caught up with him and fell at his feet. Nikolai said that the best gratitude for him would be if the father of his daughters did not tell anything to anyone.

When Nicholas died, his relics were placed in the temple, which was located in the city of Myra, where he was a bishop. And the relics of the Saint flowed myrrh. In this way, Nicholas the Wonderworker healed people even after his death. But in the eleventh century an event occurred that gave rise to the holiday, which is celebrated on May 22. The Turks began to attack the Greek Empire, began to destroy temples and destroy all shrines. At first, the Turks wanted to completely destroy the tomb containing the relics of Nicholas, but they confused and destroyed the neighboring one. But they never managed to return to their homeland, because a terrible storm began and their ships went under water.
When people learned about such actions, they had a desire to save the relics of the Saint. This happened with the merchants from the city of Bari. According to legend, one priest had a dream in which Nicholas asked to transfer his relics to this city. And then people went to transport the relics. At first they tried to bribe the monks guarding the shrine, and then they even used force. As a result, the relics of the Saint were taken from the tomb and delivered to Bari 20 days later. According to the new style, this day falls on the twenty-second of May. The relics streamed myrrh, healing the inhabitants of this city, and a year later they even built a temple in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

The meaning of the holiday

Christians greatly honor this Saint, and when the question arises of who to turn to with prayers for help, the answer is obvious - Nicholas the Wonderworker. The holiday of May 22 is a joyful day for everyone. Pieces of the Saint’s relics are sent to churches, where believers can touch them to be healed.
This day is also revered among the people. There are many signs associated with him. This day is also called May 22: St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of the Spring, that is, spring, and sometimes they say Summer Nikolai. People believe that after this day summer comes into its own, that it is already possible to swim, and it is already possible to drive horses out into the field.

St. Nicholas is popularly called Nicholas the Wonderworker, i.e. saints who have the gift of intercession and performing miracles. He is loved with for a long time revered as the patron saint of travelers, farmers and cattle breeders, the protector of people on land and sea. Sailors whose ships are in distress turn to Saint Nicholas for help. The saint fulfills children's requests. In the West, Santa Claus is popular, bringing gifts on Christmas night. The prototype of this fairy-tale character is St. Nicholas of Myra.

Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Nikolo-Prozorovo (Nikolskoye-Prozorovskoye), Moscow region

The Lives of the Saints describe many miracles performed by Nicholas of Myra (from the city of Myra, Lycian region). Every year the saint is glorified on May 22(May 9 O.S.) and December 19(December 6, O.S.). In Russian Orthodox Church The icon of St. Nicholas is located next to the image of the Savior and the Mother of God.

Such icons of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker as “ Saint Nicholas » (XVI century, museum ancient Russian culture and art named after Andrei Rublev), " Nikola winter "(depicted wearing a bishop's miter), " Nikola spring », « Nikola Mokry "(in honor of the miracle of saving a drowned baby), " Nikola Dvorishchensky "(on a round board, healing of the Novgorod prince Mstislav), " Nikola Otvratny "(turns away from all filth), " Nikola Velikoretsky "(XVI century, the icon is in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve), " Nikola Zaraisky "etc.

All icons depict St. Nicholas with a very kind face, a gray beard and slightly sad eyes.

St. Nicholas of Myra, with the Old Testament Trinity, the Appearance of the Mother of God to Sergius of Radonezh and selected saints. From the collection of the Andrei Rublev Museum, Moscow

According to the Lives of the Saints, Saint Nicholas was born into a wealthy aristocratic family in the seaside city of Patara (now Turkish territory) in 270. Then the family moved to the city of Myra (its ruins have been preserved). My uncle was the local bishop. It was he who ordained his pious nephew to the priesthood. After the death of his parents, Nikolai received a large inheritance and began to secretly provide assistance to disadvantaged people.

Soon he visited Palestine to venerate the Sepulcher and Life-giving Cross Lord, pray to Jerusalem Temple on Mount Golgotha. There, a miracle worker’s gift was discovered, which made it possible, on the way back, to tame a sea storm and resurrect a sailor who had fallen from the mast.

There is a legend that Saint Nicholas, who returned to Myra, prayed daily in the local church. Myra at that time was a small port town, where not only sailors, fishermen, merchants lived, but also sea pirates. They believed in the god of the sea and water element Neptune (Poseidon), to whom temples were dedicated and sacrifices were made.

After the death of Bishop John of the Myra Church, they decided to choose a new one, relying on Divine Providence. One of the bishops had a vision that the one who would be the first to enter this temple early in the morning should be chosen, and his name was Nicholas. It was Saint Nicholas who first came to the opening of the temple at dawn.

There were difficult times in the life of the saint when he was imprisoned. Emperor Constantine the Great (272 - 337) allowed Nicholas to return to the flock, and then participate in the First Ecumenical Council of 325. There there was a quarrel with the heretic Arius, which showed that Saint Nicholas was capable of punishing his opponent.

On December 6, 343, Saint Nicholas died peacefully at an old age. In 1087 his relics were transferred to Italian city Bari.

At first, Saint Nicholas was considered only a local patron. In Rus', they learned about the saint from trading people arriving along the way “from the Varangians to the Greeks.” Nicholas the Wonderworker became the patron saint of warriors, the protector of a wide variety of people, and their intercessor before God. The people had legends about St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. In the Church it is celebrated not only twice a year, but also every Thursday.

In the 19th century, almost a third Russian churches illuminated in the name of Nicholas the Wonderworker. Now there are a lot of them too. In Moscow's Epiphany Cathedral located in Elokhov miraculous image Saint Nicholas. Muscovites are well aware of the Yelokhovskaya Church, located near the Baumanskaya metro station.

Prayer to Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

O all-holy Nicholas, exceedingly saintly servant of the Lord, our warm intercessor, and everywhere in sorrow a quick helper! Help me, a sinner and a 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 one, beg the Lord God, the Creator of all creation, to deliver me from airy ordeals and eternal torment, so that I may always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and your merciful intercession, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen

Nikola spring (spring)

May 22 - the holiday of St. Nicholas of the spring (spring). It is also called herbal, warm. On this day in 1087, the relics of the saint were secretly transferred at night from the plundered city of Myra to the Italian city of Bari. This day became religious holiday. The most different people they asked St. Nicholas for help and protection, took oaths to honor his name. So the holiday became a votive one. And cherished, because It was believed that on this day one should not break the covenants of ancestors.

Merchants and industrialists tried to give the name of the saint to new ships on St. Nicholas.

In Rus', grooms drove their horses out into the field on St. Nicholas in the spring, set off at night, and ordered prayer services with the blessing of water. They asked the Defender to protect the horses from predators and horse thieves. Young people always took part in this holiday: single guys led horses into the field, and girls baked pies in the huts at this time. The youth and grooms walked all night, washing down hearty pies with buckwheat with beer and kvass. It was believed that from this day on, livestock and horses could completely switch to pasture.

Weather sign : “Nikola would come, it would be warm.”

Nikola winter

December 19 - Nikola winter, cold. This is the day of the Saint's death. Farmers prepared in advance for winter Nikola, and mass grain sales began in Rus'. Fairs and bazaars opened, with Nikola himself keeping order. The traders were afraid to anger him, so there were few scammers at such fairs.

On St. Nicholas the Winter even enemies made peace. The elders walked and took part in fraternities. The younger ones looked at them and prepared for Christmastide. Relatives and acquaintances came to Nikolsky Brotherhood to drink intoxicating beer together, which was brewed according to family recipes.

In that lasts from November 28 to January 6 , comply with the following rules. If St. Nicholas Day, i.e. December 19, falls on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, then you can eat fish.

Vasily Belov wrote about the celebration of St. Nicholas in the 1920s in the USSR in the book “Lad”:

Beer in the North until the war was the main holiday drink among peasants. It was brewed from rye.
Anfisa Ivanovna talks about it this way:
“On the nineteenth of December, or the sixth according to the old style, was the feast of St. Nicholas, the patronal feast in our parish. We also arranged a wedding for Nikola so that it would be just one expense. This is 1926, they didn’t get married anymore, but if there was a church, they still wouldn’t get married during Lent. Everyone, young and old, was looking forward to the holiday. Even beggars. Many people come on this day; housewives bake pies especially for the poor. They also left wort, although not pervacha, but drugacha for treating random strangers.”

Folk signs : “What a day on winter Nikola, so is it on summer Nikola”, “If the day turns out to be cold and clear, it’s a good year for a harvest”, “Before Nikola there is frost - the oats will grow well”, “As much as winter Nikola gives snow, so much spring Nikola” .

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Saint Nicholas in Orthodox church calendar More than one holiday is dedicated. On December 19, according to the new style, the day of the saint’s death is remembered, and on August 11, his birth. People called these two holidays St. Nicholas Winter and St. Nicholas Autumn. On May 22, believers remember the transfer of the relics of St. Nicholas from Myra in Lycia to Bari, which took place in 1087. The Orthodox called this day Nikola Vershny (that is, spring), or Nikola Summer.

Life

Saint Nicholas was born in 258 in the city of Patara, near Lycia, on the southern coast of the Asia Minor peninsula. His parents Theophanes and Nonna were pious and righteous Christians, but for a long time they were childless, about which they were very sad and constantly prayed to God to send them a child.

The Lord heard their prayers and sent them a son, and they vowed to devote their only child to the service of God. At birth he was given the name Nikolai, which means winner of nations. And he, by the blessing of God, truly appeared as the conqueror of evil, for the benefit of the whole world.

Saint Nicholas showed his first miracle at his very birth, healing his mother from a serious illness. Then the newborn, still in the baptismal font, stood on his feet for three hours, unsupported by anyone, giving honor to them Holy Trinity. IN fast days the child spontaneously accepted mother's milk only once, in the evenings.

Since childhood, he was different from those children who played loudly in the streets all day long. When Nikolai learned to read, he almost immediately began studying the Holy Scriptures and other spiritual books.

He spent his nights in prayer, and his days in righteous labors. He avoided vain friends and idle conversations in every possible way, avoided conversations with women and did not even look at them.

His uncle, Bishop Nicholas of Patara, seeing such zeal and chastity, made the young man a reader, and then elevated him to the rank of priest.

The miracle worker led an ascetic lifestyle, that is, he even ate food only once a day in the evenings. Throughout his life the saint deliberately deprived himself of all blessings. Nikolai gave all his wealth, inherited from his parents, to the poor and needy. So he dedicated earthly existence serving people and God.

After some time, Nikolai Ugodnik ended up in the city of Myra, the capital of Lycia, where no one knew him. He lived like a beggar, but attended religious services day after day. At the same time, the archbishop died in Myra and the bishops at the council tried in vain to elect a new one.

Through the prayers of one of the elders, there was a vision that the first person to enter the temple before the midnight maiden should become an archbishop. He turned out to be the humble and meek Saint Nicholas.

The new archbishop became a real protector of the poor and disadvantaged. WITH great love he cared for his flock. Under Emperor Diocletian, a persecutor of Christians, Saint Nicholas was imprisoned, but even there he preached and took care of the prisoners.

Despite his great meekness of spirit and purity of heart, Saint Nicholas was a zealous and courageous warrior of the Church of Christ.

Fighting the spirits of evil, the saint went around pagan temples and temples in the city of Myra itself and its environs, crushing idols and turning the temples to dust.

In 325, already under Emperor Constantine, Archbishop Myra of Lycia, among others, was invited to the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea. There Saint Nicholas not only denounced heretical doctrine Aria, but even hit him on the cheek for blasphemy.

Those present considered this to be excessive jealousy, and the saint was defrocked and sent to the prison tower. However, the miracle worker was soon returned to the cathedral, having been convinced that he was right.

Having reached a ripe old age, Saint Nicholas died peacefully around the year 351.

His honest relics were kept incorrupt in the local cathedral church and exuded healing myrrh, from which many received healings.

In 1087, his relics were transferred to the Italian city of Bari, where they rest to this day.

Miracles

Saint Nicholas became famous for many miracles - he saved Lycia from famine, during a rebellion that broke out in Phrygia, he helped three imperial commanders pacify the crowd and resolve the conflict peacefully.

With prayer he stopped the sea elements. This happened during the miracle worker’s water journey to the Holy Land. The saint predicted that a hurricane would strike and the ship would sink, but his prayers changed the treacherous intentions of nature.

The miracle worker saved from certain death three men who, through the fault of fate, were among the innocently convicted. Nikolai simply held the murder weapon, which the executioner raised over the heads of the unfortunate people, and the accuser, realizing who was in front of him, repented of his plan.

Fragment of the icon “St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of Zaraisk with his Life”

He also saved the three daughters of an impoverished old man from dishonor. Three times dark night he threw wallets with gold coins into the old man’s window, and the old man managed to marry all three daughters with a dowry to worthy people.

It is impossible to count his miracles just as it is impossible to describe all of them in detail.

The miraculous icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is one of the most revered Orthodox images of Saints. The divine image is addressed in prayer at various life situations, and according to people, with the sincere request of believers, he quickly responds and comes to the aid of those in need.

History of the holiday

The exact time of the establishment of the celebration of the Nativity of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is unknown. Most likely, this holiday was originally local in Asia Minor Lycian Worlds, where the saint served as archbishop, and in the homeland of his parents.

Then, at the time of the Crusades, the holiday could spread throughout the Nicene Empire and from there come to Rus', where the saint was deeply revered since ancient times.

Presumably, this church celebration also existed among the ancient people - the Greeks, who lived in those distant times on the territory of the Russians, but so far this information has not been confirmed.

Since the ninth century, Nikolai Ugodnik was revered in Rus' as heavenly patron sovereign power - it was believed that he especially patronized the Orthodox kings.

It is also known that in the 13th century the tradition of celebrating his Nativity in the Russian Orthodox Church already existed; in Veliky Novgorod there was even a monastery dedicated to the Nativity of St. Nicholas.

However, during the reign of Catherine the Great, the church-wide celebration of the Nativity of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Russia was abolished.
The celebration was resumed several centuries later, and in honor of the feast of the Nativity of St. Nicholas, a troparion and kontakion, known from ancient times in the liturgical life of the Russian Orthodox Church, were compiled.

There is also information that one of the surviving church services dedicated to this holiday, was compiled during the patriarchate of Nikon in 1657.

The holiday of the saint's birth was revived in 2004 with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus', and therefore is not yet very widely known in Russia.

Honoring a Saint

The veneration of St. Nicholas very quickly spread throughout Christendom, both in the East and in the West. Numerous churches were dedicated to him, people turned to him in prayer, hoping for healing and help.

From folk legends, appearing over the centuries, we learn that St. Nicholas helped the poor and unfortunate by quietly throwing gold coins into shoes left at the door at night and placing pies in the windows.

Around 960, the first musical work about St. Nicholas was written in the West, where a new version of the translation of the saint’s life was proposed: instead of the word “innocentes” (innocents) in relation to the three inhabitants of the World, unjustly sentenced to death, “pueri” (children) was used. .

Due to the incredible success of this medieval musical work about the holy bishop, the tradition of venerating St. Nicholas as the patron saint of children arose. However, even before this, sailors, prisoners, bakers and merchants chose him as their heavenly protector.

What do they pray for?

People pray to Nicholas the Wonderworker in a variety of life trials, and, as people testify, he soon answers the prayers of believers.

They pray to Nicholas the Wonderworker for those traveling (remembering how St. Nicholas, through the power of prayer, pacified a storm that broke out at sea, which almost sank the ship on which the Wonderworker Nicholas was located).

They pray to St. Nicholas for the successful marriage of their daughters (remembering how St. Nicholas secretly donated dowry money to the daughters of a ruined man so that they could get married).

They pray to the saint for deliverance from hunger. During his lifetime, Nicholas the Wonderworker became famous as a pacifier of warring parties, a defender of the innocently convicted, and a deliverer from needless death.

There is no strictly obligatory list of things to do to pray to each saint. Therefore, you can pray to St. Nicholas, like other saints, for help in all difficult situations.

On August 11, you can ask St. Nicholas for the most secret things, if, of course, you believe in God. And have no doubt - your request will be heard by the miracle worker.

PRAYER TO NICHOLAS THE WONDERWORKER

With the help of this prayer to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and faith in the miracle that it performs, a person can be healed from incurable disease, avoid troubles, dramatically change your destiny in better side, feel a surge of new strength, energy and vigor.

Chosen Wonderworker and great servant of Christ, Father Nicholas! Exuding myrrh to the whole world with much-valued mercy, and an inexhaustible sea of miracles, you build up spiritual fortresses, and I praise you as my lover, blessed Saint Nicholas: but you, as having boldness towards the Lord, free me from all troubles, and I call you: Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker!

An angel in the image of an earthly being by the nature of the Creator of all creation; Having foreseen the fruitful kindness of your soul, blessed Nicholas, teach everyone to cry out to you:

Rejoice, born in the robes of angels, as pure in the flesh; Rejoice, baptized with water and fire, as though holy in the flesh. Rejoice, you who surprised your parents with your birth; Rejoice, you who revealed the strength of your soul at Christmas. Rejoice, garden of the land of promise; Rejoice, flower of the Divine planting. Rejoice, virtuous vine of Christ's grapes; Rejoice, miraculous tree of Jesus' paradise. Rejoice, thou land of heavenly destruction; Rejoice, myrrh of Christ's fragrance. Rejoice, for you will drive away sobbing; Rejoice for you bring joy. Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker!

Rejoice, image of lambs and shepherds; Rejoice, holy purifier of morals. Rejoice, container of great virtues; Rejoice, holy and pure dwelling! Rejoice, all-bright and all-loving lamp; Rejoice, golden and immaculate light! Rejoice, worthy interlocutor of Angels; rejoice, kind people mentor! Rejoice, rule of pious faith; Rejoice, image of spiritual meekness! Rejoice, for through you we are delivered from bodily passions; Rejoice, for through you we are filled with spiritual sweetness! Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker!

Rejoice, deliverance from sorrow; Rejoice, bestower of grace. Rejoice, banisher of unforeseen evils; Rejoice, wishing good things to the planter. Rejoice, speedy consoler of those in trouble; Rejoice, terrible punisher of those who offend. Rejoice, abyss of miracles poured out by God; Rejoice, the tablet of the law of Christ written by God. Rejoice, strong construction of those who give; Rejoice, rightful affirmation. Rejoice, for through you all flattery is laid bare; Rejoice, for through you all truth comes true. Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker!

Rejoice, source of all healings; Rejoice, greater helper of those who suffer! Rejoice, dawn, shining in the night of sin for those who wander; Rejoice, dew that does not flow in the heat of labor! Rejoice, thou who hast provided for those who demand prosperity; Rejoice, prepare abundance for those who ask! Rejoice, preface the petition many times; Rejoice, renew the strength of old gray hairs! Rejoice, the accuser of many errors from the true path; Rejoice, faithful servant of the mysteries of God. Rejoice, for through you we trample on envy; Rejoice, for through you we correct a good life. Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker!

Rejoice, take away from eternal misery; Rejoice, give us imperishable wealth! Rejoice, thou who art unperishing to those who hunger for truth; Rejoice, inexhaustible drink to those who thirst for life! Rejoice, keep from rebellion and warfare; Rejoice, free us from bonds and captivity! Rejoice, most glorious intercessor in troubles; Rejoice, great protector in adversity! Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker!

Rejoice, illumination of the Trisolar Light; Rejoice, day of the never-setting sun! Rejoice, candle, kindled by the Divine flame; Rejoice, for you have extinguished the demonic flame of wickedness! Rejoice, lightning, consuming heresies; Rejoice, O thunder who frightens those who seduce! Rejoice, true teacher of reason; Rejoice, mysterious exponent of the mind! Rejoice, for you have trampled upon the worship of the creature; Rejoice, for through you we will learn to worship the Creator in the Trinity! Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker!

Rejoice, mirror of all virtues; Rejoice, everyone who flows to you has been taken away by the strong! Rejoice, according to God and the Mother of God, all our hope; Rejoice, health to our bodies and salvation to our souls! Rejoice, for through you we are freed from eternal death; Rejoice, for through you we are worthy of endless life! Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker!

Oh, most bright and wonderful Father Nicholas, consolation of all who mourn, accept our present offering, and beg the Lord to deliver us from Gehenna, through your God-pleasing intercession, so that with you we sing: Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah!

Chosen Wonderworker and great servant of Christ, Father Nicholas! Exuding myrrh to the whole world with much-valued mercy, and an inexhaustible sea of miracles, you build up spiritual fortresses, and I praise you as my lover, blessed Saint Nicholas: you, as having boldness towards the Lord, free me from all troubles, and I call you: Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, Rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker, rejoice, Nicholas, great Wonderworker!