As Pastor Sumpter has pointed out, there is a liturgical structure to this episode in Luke 7. Jesus is in a house at a table. The woman comes in and offers her oil to Jesus and mourns her sins. Jesus teaches Simon about his duties as host, pronounces the woman forgiven, and then sends her away in peace. It’s all there: Gathering at a table, offering and mourning, teaching, absolution, benediction. The woman is renewed by her contact with Jesus.
http://www.leithart.com/2008/08/31/eucharistic-meditation-41/
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