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¦
In the New Testament, the main sense of hypomone [uJpomonhv] is perseverance or endurance. Faith and hope are emphasized, and there is little of the Old Testament sense of waiting for or expecting.. One needs to persevere to attain personally to the ultimate salvation of God.