Saint Nectarios of Aegina · Metropolitan of Pentapolis

Prayers & Hymns

Apolytikion, Kontakion, Agni Parthene and devotional texts associated with Saint Nectarios.

Apolytikion of Saint Nectarios

Ἦχος α΄ · Τῆς ἐρήμου πολίτης

Σηλυβρίας τὸν γόνον καὶ Αἰγίνης τὸν ἔφορον,
τὸν ἐσχάτοις χρόνοις φανέντα ἀρετῆς φίλον γνήσιον,
Νεκτάριον τιμήσωμεν πιστοί, ὡς ἔνθεον θεράποντα Χριστοῦ·
ἀναβλύζει γὰρ ἰάσεις παντοδαπὰς τοῖς εὐλαβῶς κραυγάζουσι·
Δόξα τῷ σὲ δοξάσαντι Χριστῷ,
δόξα τῷ σὲ θαυματώσαντι,
δόξα τῷ ἐνεργοῦντι διὰ σοῦ πᾶσιν ἰάματα.

The site-opening audio concept will use this Apolytikion once we have a recording licensed for web distribution. Browsers normally require a user interaction before audible playback, so visitors will be offered “Enter with the Apolytikion” and “Enter silently”.

Kontakion

Ὀρθοδοξίας τὸν ἀστέρα τὸν νεόφωτον,
καὶ Ἐκκλησίας τὸ νεόδμητον προτείχισμα,
ἀνυμνήσωμεν καρδίας ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ·
δοξασθεὶς γὰρ ἐνεργείᾳ τῇ τοῦ Πνεύματος,
ἰαμάτων ἀναβλύζει χάριν ἄφθονον τοῖς κραυγάζουσι·
Χαίροις, Πάτερ Νεκτάριε.

Agni Parthene

Saint Nectarios’s celebrated hymn to the Theotokos now has its own complete Greek page.

Read Ἁγνὴ Παρθένε →

Coming next

Paraklesis, Akathist and additional liturgical texts will be added from authoritative editions with clear reproduction status, rather than copied indiscriminately from modern websites.