Yes, we receive ashes on Ash Wednesday and have full eucharistic vestments, holy water, incense, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, auricular confession. TEC encourages its members to abstain from meat on all Fridays and to undergo a willing spiritual ascesis during Lent and Advent.
Define persevere: to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, orâ¦ â persevere in a sentence to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragementâ¦
1. Contrary to what is right or good; wicked or depraved: a perverse world of sinners. 2. a. Characterized by or resulting from willful opposition or resistance to what is right, expected, or reasonable: Geneticists have the perverse habit of naming genes by what goes wrong when they mutate (Richard Dawkins).