Saint
Nicholas the Wonderworker
Beatitude Verses: Feast 4 from Ode 3, Canon 1; 4 from Ode 6, Canon 2
1 & 2. O blessed Nicholas, as thou art a true
disciple of the Master, thou savest those
who have recourse to thee
from grievous misfortunes and bitter death.
3&4. Cleanse Thy
servants, granting them remission of sins, in that Thou art good,
through the mediations
before Thee of Nicholas, Thy favorite, O greatly Merciful One.
5. Thou hast been shown to be a new Abraham, O
Nicholas, for, ever offering up the
unbloody sacrifice, thou
didst bring thy mind to thy Master as if it were thine only-
begotten son; wherefore,
thou wast blessed as a lover of strangers, O father, and
becamest the divine and
immaculate habitation of the Trinity.
6. Thou workest strange and awesome miracles, O
Nicholas, interceding in thy speedy
supplications
for those in peril throughout the earth and far out upon the sea, showing
thyself to the faithful as
a physician of the sick, a feeder of the poor, and the namesake of
victory over the enemy.
7. Foreseeing things yet to come with the eye of thy
mind, thou didst fill all the ends of
the earth with right
doctrines, and, declaring to us that the Son is consubstantial with the
Father, thou didst set at nought the savagery of
Arius, O pillar of the Orthodox Faith,
setting forth thine
honored corrections.
8. Wholly incarnate within thy womb, O all-pure one,
Christ God was born without seed;
for, unable to endure the
sight of the work of His hands tormented by the deceiver, He
came in the form of a
servant to deliver the human race.
Troparia
Tone 4: The truth of things hath
revealed thee to thy flock as a rule of faith, an icon of
meekness and a teacher of temperance; therefore thou hast achieved the heights
by
humility, riches by poverty. O Father and Hierarch Nicholas, intercede with
Christ God
that our souls be saved.
Glory… Both now…
Tone 4: The mystery hidden from
before the ages and unknown
even to the angels, through thee, O Theotokos, hath been revealed to those
on earth: God
incarnate in unconfused union, Who willingly accepted the Cross for our sake and
thereby raising up the first-formed man, hath saved our souls from death.
The Epistle
Reader: The Prokimenon in the 7th Tone: The righteous man shall be glad in the Lord,
and shall hope in Him.
Choir: The righteous
man shall be glad in the Lord, and shall hope in Him.
Reader: Hearken, O God, unto my prayer, when I
make supplication unto Thee.
Choir: The
righteous man shall be glad in the Lord, and shall hope in Him.
Reader: The righteous man shall be glad in the Lord.
Choir: And shall hope in Him.
Reader: The Reading is
from the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Hebrews:
[Hebrews
13:17-21]
Reader: Alleluia in the 4th Tone.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: Thy priests
shall be clothed with righteousness, and Thy righteous shall rejoice.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: For
the Lord hath elected Zion, He hath chosen her to be a habitation for
Himself.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Luke 6:17-23]
Kontakia
Tone 3: In Myra, O Saint, thou didst
prove to be a minister of things sacred; for having
fulfilled the Gospel of Christ, O righteous one, thou didst lay down thy life for
thy
people, and didst save the innocent from death.
Wherefore, thou wast sanctified as a
great initiate of the grace of God.
Glory… Both now… Tone 6: O
protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, O
mediation unto the creator
unfailing, disdain not the suppliant voices of sinners, but be
thou quick, O good one, to help us who in
faith cry unto thee; hasten to intercession and
speed thou to make supplication, thou who dost
ever protect, O Theotokos, them that
honor thee.