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Memorare to St. Joseph
Quick answer: Quick answer: The Memorare to St. Joseph ('Remember, O most chaste spouse...') is a brief, confident plea for his intercession, modeled on the Memorare to Mary. Pray it anytime you need quick help — especially for family, work, or purity. This page includes the full text, a printable card, and context on its origins. It takes ~30 seconds to pray.
The Memorare to St. Joseph: a traditional-style prayer asking the foster father of Jesus for help, protection and faithful intercession in a time of need.
Part of the St. Joseph prayer collection.
In brief
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Prayer: Memorare to St. Joseph
Remember, O most chaste spouse of the Virgin Mary, my loving guardian St. Joseph, that never was it known that anyone who invoked your protection and sought your help was left without consolation. Inspired by this confidence, I come before you and commend to you the intention I carry today. Do not turn away from my prayer, foster father of the Redeemer, but hear it with kindness and obtain for me the grace to follow God faithfully, whatever the answer may be. Amen.
Source note: Traditional-style devotion; pray it with trust, never as a guarantee.
How this prayer differs from the Marian Memorare
The familiar Memorare addresses Mary. This prayer asks St. Joseph for his fatherly intercession. Both are prayers of confidence, not formulas that promise a particular result.
How to pray it
Name one intention plainly, pray slowly, and then take the next practical step in front of you. Many people pray it for nine days, beginning on a Wednesday or before the feast of St. Joseph on March 19.
Keep praying
Novena to St. JosephPrayer for difficult problems
- The Marian Memorare
Memorare to Saint Joseph
Pray the Memorare to Saint Joseph when you want to entrust a need to his fatherly care and ask him to intercede with Jesus. Bring the request plainly, then leave room for discernment and practical action; the prayer is a relationship of trust, not a contract for a particular result.
Different prayer collections use slightly different forms of the Memorare to Saint Joseph. This page identifies the wording it presents and keeps popular devotion separate from an official claim that every petition will be answered as requested.