Thursday 1 September 2022

St Nicholas- Patron St of Repentant Thieves!


COMPILED BY Davis Ndyomugabe




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 🔵 St Nicholas is the patron Saint of repentant thieves! 


 ➡️Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students in various cities and countries around Europe.


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Oh you redeemed and redeeming saint

You of various others that your eye of mercy consoled and encouraged

Can the archer with his aiming arrow forget your pin point accurate wink

That by your nod the trophy he bruised in the bull’s eye!

The merchants and sailors he led profitably to valuable fortunes 

To Africa they hurried and scrambled with the cross

The African they lured in prayer and repentance 

His land and resources they carried away smiling 

And their churches and cities they built to shine and glow!

The brewers he teased with the agreeing palates to the tastes 

Today the straw is ever the throat irrigating!

To you our agitated and fearful children 

Hasn’t he lulled with lullabies lured to peaceful sleep

That your dear mothers may sweetly repose and rest after all the day’s chores!

You pawnbrokers where would you be without the Nicholas trust

To all your clients they have come and returned with broken smiles

Isn’t high interest and usury  theft!

The students, you browsing on the pages of knowledge 

Oh Niko, continue to strengthen and fill them with discernment 

The future is arid and dull without the milk of the book!


And yo our thieves, what can we say if it’s not for Nicholas 

All have sinned and come short of the glory:

Any thief or fraud who seeks forgiveness or clemency 

May, with a broken and contrite heart, 

On a bended knee approach St Nicholas in prayer 

It is never too late, it never is…

This may come as a huge relief to  all:

Lying politicians and most errant lawyers who have taken what is not rightly theirs, 

Of course to all robbers, pickpockets, burglars, land and property grabbers, 

Election riggers and all manner of pilferers and thievings 

And without exception, all thieves, including those who pilfer tithes and render wrong weights and measures!

The doctors and their allied colleagues who steal drugs, or benefit from wrong prescriptions are no exception!

The tax collectors who ascribe assess and recover illegal or excessive taxes is included!

The carpenters who steal nails, most times as a habit of hiding the nails in their hair!

The contractor who illegally allow wrong and mismatching measurements volumes and weights can seek mercy

The small thieves who steel the lips of bananas 

The butcher man who hides the meats and offals in their gum boots

The repairman and tailor who have left their customers wailing 

The surveyors who have stolen acres in inches and yards

Is there a category exempted from St Nicholas’s intervention?

Tell me of one and I will lead him to the saints with flutes and trumpets 

To find one on earth so sinless is celebration in heaven!

All humanity, whatever their calling, may seek St Nicholas’s intervention!

Even you reading this, you are not beyond forgiveness and recovery !

The elasticity of God’s mercy through His Saints looks favorably on you,

Only if you can say sorry and seek forgiveness and repentance 

On the cross He said it was over for the sinners!


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Davis Ndyomugabe of Qacheqis on forgiveness, especially frauds and thieves…

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