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¦
O.N. lif life, body, Du. lijf body, O.H.G. lib life, Ger. Leib body), properly continuance, perseverance, from PIE *lip- to remain, persevere, continue, live (see leave). Much of the modern range of meaning was present in O.E. Extended 1703 to term of duration (of inanimate objects).. Life cycle is attested from 1873.