"Who is the doctor who can cleanse my hidden wounds? O, will he be able to heal and to cure them? O who will be able to deliver me from the fire?" thus cried the adulteress. "I will unravel the tangles of sin, and draw near to the Lord and Savior." For indeed, he did not cast the tax collector away from him, and with his speech, he converted the Samaritan woman....
[From the Basilica Hymn for the Sixth Week of Lent, in The Book of Before and After: The Liturgy of the Hours of the Church of the East, Fr. Andrew Younan, ed. and tr., The Catholic University of America Press (Washington, DC: 2024), p. 485.]
