and receiving confession and absolution.

Etymology

The word ember may originate from the Latin quatuor tempora .

There are various views as to etymology. According to John Mason Neale in Essays of Liturgiology (1863), Chapter X:

Neil and Willoughby in The Tutorial Prayer Book (1913) prefer the view that it derives from the Anglo-Saxon ymbren, a circuit or revolution (from ymb, around, and ryne, a course, running),

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