CCC 2561

"You would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."⁹ Jn 4:10. Paradoxically our prayer of petition is a response to the plea of the living God: "They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water!"¹⁰ Jer 2:13. Prayer is the response of faith to the free promise of salvation and also a response of love to the thirst of the only Son of God.¹¹ Cf. Jn 7:37-39; 19:28; Isa 12:3; 51:1; Zech 12:10; 13:1.