Ode 5. Irmos.

The Unseen, you appeared on earth, and the Incomprehensible you willingly lived among mortals; and so we rise to you at dawn and sing your praise you, O Lover of mankind.

Incarnate upon earth, you fashioned your Disciples into heavens which proclaimed your glory, O Christ; therefore through them, Lord, have mercy on our souls.

From passions, from every constraint, from dire distress deliver your servants, O Word, at the acceptable entreaties of your Apostles.

Alas, my wretched soul, how are you, who remain fruitless, going to stand before the fearful Judge? Hasten, repent by sprouting fruits of virtues.

Pure Virgin, implore him who appeared ineffably on earth in flesh from your pure blood, as he remains ever your Son, to bestow pardon on us.

Of the Saint.

Standing in the pure light and on fire with the rays that ever flood from it, Father, ask enlightenment and peace for all.

O supremely good, at the fervent prayers of Nicholas take pity on me who with my unfeeling mind have always angered you more than all mortals.

I have squandered my life in sloth and so I beseech you, Father Nicholas, rouse my soiled thought to repentance.

As only joy of the Angels, O Full of God’s grace, fill with joy my sullen mind, sunk deep in indifference.