Memorare
Remember, O Most Gracious Virgin Mary
A prayer of confident appeal to the Blessed Virgin, that none who sought her help was ever left forsaken.
Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria,
non esse auditum a saeculo,
quemquam ad tua currentem praesidia,
tua implorantem auxilia, tua petentem suffragia, esse derelictum.
Ego tali animatus confidentia,
ad te, Virgo Virginum, Mater, curro,
ad te venio, coram te gemens peccator assisto.
Noli, Mater Verbi, verba mea despicere,
sed audi propitia et exaudi.
Amen.
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known
that anyone who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help, or sought thy intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired with this confidence,
I fly to thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother;
to thee do I come; before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful.
O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions,
but in thy mercy hear and answer me.
Amen.
Translation source: fisheaters.com/prayers.html
About this prayer
The Memorare, named from its first word, "Remember," is a prayer of unbounded confidence in the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. For centuries it was attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the great twelfth-century doctor and singer of Our Lady's praises, and it breathes his spirit even if his hand did not write it. Its present form and its spread through the Church are owed to a French priest, Father Claude Bernard, the "poor priest" of seventeenth-century Paris, who printed it in great number and preached it among prisoners and the dying.
The whole prayer rests upon a single, daring confidence: that never in any age was it heard that one who fled to Mary's protection, implored her help, or sought her intercession, was left forsaken. Trusting in this, the sinner runs to the Virgin of virgins as to a mother and stands before her sorrowing, certain that she will not despise his prayer. Saint Francis de Sales and many saints after him made it their constant petition, and it remains among the most cherished of all Marian prayers.