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¦
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721) Zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfil its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it. Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.