Saint Nikolai's Prayer for a Cool Head and Warm Heart

The post presents a prayer attributed to Saint Bishop Nikolai of Žiča. The prayer opens by calling blessed those who in this time possess a cool head and a warm heart, noting that many have heated heads and hearts cold as ice, like a wall. It addresses God as the all-merciful Lord and asks that the heart be anointed with the oil of divine mercy so that compassion does not dry up within it and the coldness of the world does not take up residence there.

The prayer continues with a request to cleanse the mind of proud thoughts and to preserve it in sobriety and peace, so that the one praying may see in every person a brother and God's living creation. It asks the Lord not to allow the whirlwind of the times to carry the petitioner away, but to establish them on the rock of God's commandments, that they may bear witness to divine love where hatred reigns and to divine peace where turmoil reigns.

The text is accompanied by hashtags linking it to Visoki Dečani monastery, Orthodoxy, the Serbian Orthodox Church, Kosovo and Metohija, and Serbia.