Provided by Fr John Shaw, via email\nThis prayer is also on-line at http://www.orthodox.net/trebnic. Other Prayers to Saints, services and rubrics, sermons,\ntopical questions and answers, articles, calendars, parish and clergy directories and more are also available on the St\nNicholas Orthodox Church site: http://www.orthodox.net\nPrayer to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker\nDec 6\nHierarch and father, O most holy Nicholas, thou extraordinary Saint of the Lord, our\nloving defender and ready helper in sorrows everywhere:\nhelp us sinners and hapless ones in the present life:\nentreat the Lord God to grant us remission of all of our sins, that we have committed\nfrom our youth and all our life, by deed, word, though and all our senses; and in the\npassing of our souls, help us wretched ones;\nentreat the Lord God and Maker of all creation, to deliver us from trials in the air and\neternal torment:\nthat we may alway glorify the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and thy merciful\nintercession, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.\nAmen.\nAnother Prayer\nO most good father Nicholas, pastor and teacher of all who in faith call upon thy\nprotection an warm prayer, make haste to deliver Christ's flock from the wolves that\nattack it;\nand guard every Christian land, and keep it by thy holy prayers from worldly unrest,\nupheaval, the assault of enemies and civil strife; from famine, flood, fire, the axe and\nsudden mortality.\nAnd as thou didst take pity on the three men who were imprisoned, and didst deliver\nthem from royal anger and death by the sword,\nso have mercy also on us, who are in the darkness of sins of mind, word and deed, and\ndeliver us from the wrath of God and eternal punishment,\nso that, by thine intercession and help, and by His mercy and grace, Christ our God may\ngrant us to lead a quiet life without sin in this age and deliver us in the next from standing\nat the left side,\nbut rather grant us to be at His right hand with all the Saints.\nAmen.
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