What I have found on authentic Catholic websites and sources, such as NewAdvent.org confirms my assessments of the situation.
Remember, I am not anti-Catholic, I am pro-God.
The only time I raise an issue with my brothers and sisters of the Catholic faith is when I see something presented which might be misunderstood and result in someone appreciating God's glory less than he should.
That was the reason behind the research project and subsequent sidebar on "who is The Rock?"
Issues like that are rarely misunderstood at the highest levels of the Catholic church - but can be misunderstood by the laity or by the observers of the Catholic faith. For instance, betty boop posted this direct quote from Pope Benedict XVI in reference to the name of God, The Rock. (That Name was announced in the Song of Moses, Deut 32:1-4)
And she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
Et exclamavit voce magna et dixit benedicta tu inter mulieres et benedictus fructus ventris tui (NewAdvent)
And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed (eulogeo) art thou among women, and blessed (eulogeo) is the fruit of thy womb. (KJV with Greek)
I could find no confusion between living water and holy water on the Catholic Encyclopedia at NewAdvent.
And finally, on the difference between baptism by another mortal in water - either to Moses, to repentance (John's baptism), to Jesus or collectively, to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit - as compared to baptism by the Holy Spirit - there has been no dispute in either of the two linked articles.
The living water is the Holy Spirit. Holy water is water which has been blessed. And whereas mortals may baptize us to Him, Jesus Christ Himself is the one who baptizes us with the Holy Spirit.
My point is simply, to God be the glory!
For instance, the translation of Luke 1:41 at NewAdvent.org does not add the word "Most" to the word "blessed" when speaking of Mary v Jesus - whereas the NAB translation linked at 2149 does
I wonder which will conform first -- the NAB or NewAdvent? I'd wager the latter. It would be interesting to remember this and check the website in a few years.
John4: 6 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
11 (The woman) said to him, "Sir, 7 you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where then can you get this living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?"
13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again;
14 but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
I wasn't coming down on any side, and certainly not against what you were saying. I was just verbally shaking my head over the difficulty of the task.
I think, at least I hope, I have already expressed my admiration for the work done on "Rock".
Where does it fit in the conversation that "living water", denotes water in a stream or a river or a fresh pond, just as "living rock" denotes rock in its natural situation?
Oh.
Well.
If you're going to be THAT way ...
Who dares to disagree? I would happily put down all contention and dance that dance for a while....
Which is yet another example of how what some people call the "word of God" has been humanized for theological and other ends.
This practice of literally putting words in God's mouth has been going on since the Pentecost.