II. Prayer of Petition

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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The vocabulary of supplication in the New Testament is rich in shades of
meaning: ask, beseech, plead, invoke, entreat, cry out, even “struggle in
prayer.”¹⁰² Its most usual form, because the most spontaneous, is
petition: by prayer of petition we express awareness of our relationship with
God. We are creatures who are not our own beginning, not the masters of
adversity, not our own last end. We are sinners who as Christians know that we
have turned away from our Father. Our petition is already a turning back to
him.

PART FOUR: CHRISTIAN PRAYER

SECTION ONE PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
- CHAPTER ONE THE REVELATION OF PRAYER – THE UNIVERSAL CALL TO PRAYER
  - Article 3 IN THE AGE OF THE CHURCH
    - II. Prayer of Petition

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team