Lo, the day has dawned which I longed to see,
A time favorable for me.
My God is lodged in the house of Simon,
I shall hasten to him and weep, just as Anna did about her sterility. Simon may consider me drunk,
Just as Elias then considered Anna. I shall keep on praying
And saying, `Lord, I do not ask for a child.
I seek my very own soul which I have lost!
O Emmanuel, born of a Virgin,
just as Thou has removed the stigma of sterility when Samuel was born
Of the childless woman, so deliver me, a harlot
From the slime of my deeds.’
St. Romanos the Melodist, Kontakion on the Sinful Woman
Locus Communis 