Prayer 1, from the service with akathist
O all-praised and all-honorable bishop, great miracle worker, saint of Christ, Father Nicholas, man of God and faithful servant, husband of desires, chosen vessel, strong pillar of the church, lampstand bright one, shining star and illuminating the whole universe! You are a righteous man, like a flourishing phoenix, planted in the courts of your Lord: alive in Mirech, you smelled the fragrance of the myrrh, and the myrrh flowed with the ever-flowing grace of God: by your procession, holy father, the sea Be sanctified, when your many miraculous powers marched into the lordly city, from East to West to praise the name of the Lord. O most graceful and wonderful miracle worker, quick helper, warm intercessor, kind shepherd, save the verbal flock from all troubles!
We glorify you 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 weep with joy, those who are naked, those who are sick, those who are sick, those who swim on the sea, those who swim on the sea, those who are captives of the liberator, widows and orphans a nourisher and protector, a guardian of chastity, infants a gentle chastiser, old fortifications, fasting mentors, rest for the toilers, abundant wealth for the poor and wretched. Hear us praying to you and running under your roof, manifest 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 church], every city and the whole, and every country Christian, and people living, from all embitterment with your help.
We know, we know, how much can the prayer of the righteous, hastening for good: for you, the righteous, according to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, representative to the All-Merciful God of the Imam, and to yours, most gracious father, warm intercession and We humbly flow to intercession. You have kept us, like a cheerful and good shepherd, from all enemies, destruction, cowardice, hail, famine, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners, and in all our troubles and sorrows, give us your hand help, and open the doors of God’s mercy: for we are not worthy to see the heights of heaven, because of the multitude of our iniquities: we are bound by sinful bonds, and not by the will of our Creator, nor keeping His commandments.
Moreover, we bend the knee of our contrite and humble heart to our Creator, and we ask for your fatherly intercession to Him: help us, servant of God, so that we do not perish with our iniquities: deliver us from all evil and from all things that are opposed, guide our minds, and strengthen our hearts in the right faith, in it through your intercession and intercession, neither with wounds, nor with rebuke, nor with pestilence, nor with any wrath from our Creator We will be humbled, but we will live a peaceful life here, and may we be honored to see good things on the living earth, glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the One in the Trinity, glorified and worshiped God, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Prayer 2, from the same book
O all-holy Nicholas, exceedingly saintly servant of the Lord, our warm intercessor and quick helper everywhere in troubles! Help me, a sinner and sad person, in this present life: beg the Lord God to grant me forgiveness of all my sins, great sins from my youth, in all my life, in deed, word, thought and all my feelings, and in the departure of my soul help the accursed one, 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 forever centuries.
Prayer 3, from the same book
O all-merciful Father Nicholas, shepherd and teacher of all who flow with faith to your intercession and call upon you with warm prayer! Strive quickly and deliver the flock of Christ from the wolves that are destroying it: and protect and protect every Christian country with your holy prayers from worldly rebellion, cowardice, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, from famine, flood, fire, sword and sudden death. And just as you had mercy on three men imprisoned, and 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 of sins, and deliver me from the wrath of God and eternal executions: for through your intercession and help, and through His mercy and grace, Christ God will give me a quiet and sinless life in this world, and will deliver me from this foolish state, and will grant me honor with all the saints forever and ever.
Prayer 4
O good shepherd, our teacher and mentor, Holy Hierarch Father Nicholas! Having lived like an angel on earth, after your repose you shone like a good angel, appearing as a constant helper to those who pray to you. We believe with all our souls and thoughts that through your honest intercessions and grace, abundantly given to you from the Lord our Savior, you will ever contribute to our salvation.
For even at this hour we are unworthy to accept the prayer: free us through your intercession from the vanity and vanity that surrounds us, the unbelief and evil of man: pray for peace to all who give, send peace to the churches, squandered into one, gather together, and preserve the power of our most pious, autocratic external emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich in peace and silence: pray to the merciful Lord, yes, the message of fate, will save us from our sins: pray goodness Him, O mercifully give us and the whole world the need, may we continually glorify, praise, sing and magnify the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Prayer 5, which I pray before the miraculous icon of St. Nicholas in the village of Promzin, Simbirsk diocese
O all-praised great wonderworker, Saint of Christ, Father Nicholas! We pray to you, be the hope of all Christians, the protector of the faithful, the feeder of the hungry, the joy of those who cry, the doctor of the sick, the steward of those floating on the sea, the poor and orphan feeder and the quick helper and patron of all, may we live a peaceful life here and may we be worthy to see the glory of the elect God in heaven and with them unceasingly sing the praises of the One God in the Trinity, worshiped forever and ever.
Prayer 6, May in the Intercession Medvedev Monastery of the Edinoverie, Nizhny Novgorod diocese
O great intercessor, the bishop of God, Nicholas the Treble, who shone miracles under the sun, you are a quick listener to those who call, and you always precede them and save them, and deliver them, and save them from all kinds of troubles, from God has given you miracles and gifts of grace! Hear me, unworthy, calling you with faith and bringing you prayerful singing: for I offer you an intercessor for supplication to 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, freeing me from the invasion of enemies visible and invisible, and destroying all slander and evil deeds, and those who fight me in reflecting throughout my life: by 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 Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, and with His Beginning Father, and with the Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Prayer 7, May in the St. Nicholas Church of the United Faith in the village of Somovki, Nizhny Novgorod diocese