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While Jesus reclines at Simon the Pharisee’s house (Luke 7:36ff), a woman of the city, apparently with a sinful reputation, approaches Him.  Weeping, she falls to the ground at the feet of Jesus, and wets Jesus’s feet with her tears.  Her hair then becomes a towel to wipe up the sob-filled mess.  She finishes by anointing Jesus’s feet with an ointment she has brought.  “As oft as I think over this event,” says Gregory the Great, “I am more disposed…