“Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession was left unaided ...” The opening words of the ...

St. Alphonsus recalls how the Memorare prayer rescued St. Francis de Sales from despair. When St. Francis de Sales was about seventeen, he was pursuing his studies in Paris. At the same time he ...

Many would say the Rosary is their favorite Marian prayer. It is a lovely prayer, of course. But my favorite Mary-themed prayer is the Memorare. Many a time, I have prayed it with anxiety or worry ...

Inspired with this confidence, we fly unto thee, O Mary, ever Virgin Mother of the True God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves in thy august presence; ...

The Memorare is one of the best-known and best-loved of prayers to the Blessed Virgin. Though widely attributed to St. Bernard, it first appeared as part of a longer fifteenth-century prayer, Ad ...

For the past year, there has been one prayer on my heart. It’s a popular Marian devotion, often hidden in the backs of daily prayer missalettes or within the “Classics” heading of a decades-old prayer ...

Many Catholics pray the Memorare prayer, but not everyone know the exact words of the traditional prayer. The words are often attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, but the origins of the prayer are ...

Some well-known Marian prayers have surprising roots. Catholics who use these familiar gems may appreciate them even more when they know something about their origins — from scriptural verses to the ...