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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