When ¹  you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity ¹  have been remembered before God. ² 

It is written in the law: “By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” ¹  says the Lord.

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, ¹  and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you ²  will name him John. ³ 

During his earthly life ¹  Christ ²  offered ³  both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.