It is Written
Canada television program.
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My name is Bill Santos.
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Thank you so
much for joining us.
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The program you're going to
watch today is the second of two
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programs we taped earlier
this year while in Portugal.
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I had the awesome privilege of
taking a skeleton crew with me
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to Portugal earlier in the year.
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And we taped two programs there.
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Portugal is a
special place for me.
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Like, you'll hear it in the
program, but both of my parents
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are Portuguese immigrants.
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I'm of Portuguese heritage.
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My dad immigrated to Canada
in 1958; my mother came in 1959.
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My brother and I were
both born here in Canada.
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I was born in downtown Toronto
at Women's College Hospital.
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And as much as I'm a proud
Canadian, you know, you never
really sort of lose
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your heritage.
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And my heritage
happens to be Portuguese.
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And so we went to Portugal.
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And the program you're going to
watch today was taped in a small
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fishing village called
Nazaré, or Nazareth, Portugal.
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And there's a whole story
behind how that name came about.
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But it is the birthplace
of my mother and my father.
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And I am so excited to
share this program with you.
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I hope you'll enjoy it.
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I'll be back in a
couple of minutes.
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>>Bill: Possibly the most famous
fishing village in all of
Portugal is Nazare!
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While it does not have the
grandiose monuments found in
other Portuguese towns,
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it has an atmosphere of times
gone by and traditions that
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thrive to this day - making
it a special place to visit.
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This is a special place for
me to visit because it is the
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birthplace of my parents.
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On today's program I want to
take you on a tour of Nazare.
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This is a town of roughly 15,000
people and an area of about 84
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square kms. Nazare is named
after Nazareth in Palestine.
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The town of Nazaré is not very
old, if you take into account
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the age of Portugal itself.
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In the 17th century, the sea
covered this entire beach area.
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However, there were a lot of
natural changes in that same
century and the sea
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eventually went back and
creating this bay that exists
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today. The town of Nazare
consists of three sections:
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Praia (along the beach), the
Sítio (the old village at the
top of the cliff) and Pederneira
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(another old
village, on a hilltop).
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The Praia and the Sítio
areas are linked by the Nazare
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Funicular. It was designed by
Raoul Mesnier du Ponsard - he
was one of Eiffel's
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pupils, and responsible for
most of Lisbon's cable cars.
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The cable line is 380m long
and has a leaning angle of 42%.
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Until 1963, a steam machine
pulled the first cars, but then
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a lethal accident forced it
to close for a 5 year period.
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When it reopened, in 1968, the
first cars were replaced by new
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and safer electric cars.
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These electric cars worked
tirelessly until 2001, being
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replaced by more modern, more
comfortable and safer ones, in
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July 2002. The most famous
legend in Nazare has it that on
an early morning in
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September, 1182, Dom Fuas
Roupinho was hunting on
horseback when he saw a
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deer and decided to chase it.
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All of a sudden a heavy
fog rose up from the sea.
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The deer ran towards the top of
this cliff and Dom Fuas in the
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midst of the fog was
cut off from his companions.
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Well when he realized he
was on the edge of the cliff he
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recognized the place.
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You see, it was next to a small
grotto where a statue of Virgin
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Mary was worshipped.
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So he cried out
loudly Our Lady, Help Me.
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All of a sudden the horse
stopped there at the edge thus
saving his mount from
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a drop of more than 100 meters.
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Dom Fuas dismounted and went
down to the grotto to pray and
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give thanks for the miracle.
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Then he asked his companions to
fetch masons in order to build
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this small chapel over the
grotto and he did that so the
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image could more easily
worshipped by all and as a
memorial to the miracle that
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just saved him.
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But before walling up the
grotto the masons destroyed the
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existing altar where amongst
the stones they found this ivory
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chest. Inside the chest were
some relics and in there was an
old parchment containing
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the story of the little wooden
statue, just over one palm high,
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of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding
baby Jesus seated on her left
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leg. According to the parchment
the statue was worshipped since
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the beginning of Christianity
in Nazareth, back in Palestine.
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It was rescued in the 4th
century by a monk who took the
statue to Spain, and
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it remained in Spain
until around the year 711 AD.
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So here you have the statue "Our
Lady of Nazare", received its
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name from this village in
Palestine where it was first
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worshipped, was brought by monk
to Spain and then a friar brings
it from Spain to the Atlantic
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coast.
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He brings it here to this place,
it's what the Portuguese call
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Monte de S.
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Bartolomeu (saint
Bartolomeu's mount).
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The monk arrives here, he
decides to spend a few days
here, he then decides
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he is going to live as a hermit.
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So he takes the image and he
decides to go and settled in the
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little grotto on the
edge of a cliff above the sea.
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Well a year after moving here to
the cliff the fryer died and he
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was buried here - but the grotto
remained with the statue inside
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of it. Well, until 1182, when
Dom Fuas, after the miracle,
moved the statue out of
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the grotto and had this chapel
built as a memorial to the event
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that saved his life.
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Thus this chapel was named
Capela da Memória (Chapel of the
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Memory). The tiles on the chapel
depict the event, and outside of
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the chapel is a pillar with an
inscription commemorating the
visit of Vasco da Gama's prior
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to and after
his voyage to India.
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Now in 1377, because of the
growing number of pilgrims, king
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Fernando had the church over
here built the Sanctuary of Our
Lady of Nazaré it was
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built in 1377.
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The church, was rebuilt in the
17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
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Semicircular steps lead to a
Baroque portal under two square
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bell towers. There are cloisters
to the front and left of the
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building. Inside there is highly
guilded decoration on the Alter
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area. There are many blue and
white tiles they were made in
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1708 by the Dutch
ceramist Willem van der Kloet.
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They depict biblical scenes, and
among them Joseph being sold as
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a slave by his brothers.
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The image is now on display here
in the main chapel just above
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the altar.
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So think about it, the statue
has remained in the same place
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since 711 AD, in a village named
after it, Sítio da Nazare, the
Place of the Nazaré.
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Well we're here in the Largo dos
Cedros at the monument to the
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women of Nazaré.
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Now there's an interesting
tradition here that doesn't date
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as far back as the statue legend
but, is nonetheless quite
unique, it's that of the
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seven skirts of Nazaré.
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Fisher women here still wear
seven colourful layers of skirts
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and a
predominantly black headscarf.
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Their arrival on the fashion
scene in Nazaré is attributed to
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the fishwives of old who would
await the safe return of their
men on the beach in
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cold, wet, and windy conditions,
layers were added to help them
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to keep warm.
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The number finally
settled on was seven.
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The length of the skirts are
kept above the knees because the
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women used to help bring
the boats in from the water.
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The skirts are therefore
cut above the water level.
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The first known references to
fishing activities in Nazaré go
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back to 1643. In 1870, there
were already 58 fishing cabins
here, where fishermen kept
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their tools and instruments.
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Until the beginning of the 19th
century, however, the fishermen,
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fearing pirates, lived only in
the cliffs - it was only in the
middle of that century
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was Nazaré to start
being known as a tourist beach.
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The fishermen of the 19th
century wore short pants in
Scottish flannel - on
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Sundays they would put on their
long pants, they wore Scottish
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flannel shirts without pockets
to swim better in the event of
shipwreck, goblin cap
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that works as a pocket,
and a belt with 6 turns.
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Phoenician ships used to
ply the coast of Portugal.
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The fishermen of Nazaré
are traditionally of Phoenician
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descent. This can be seen today
in the unusual and ancient
design of their boats,
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which have soaring pointed bows
and are painted with mystical
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symbols. Nazare is the most
dangerous beach but also the
most abundant in fish.
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In the past, when there was
no port, these boats were pulled
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ashore by long ropes by men and
women with oxen or more recent
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past by tractors. They would
place their nets several
kilometres from the beach and
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the nets in with tractors or
oxen pulled them in an endless
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going and returning.
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When the net arrived, the town
would gather to see the catch,
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sometimes weighing
in excess of 2 tons.
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Well the fish then, would be
taken over to the fish market
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where they would be sold at
an auction, but a descending
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auction. The sardine would be
cooked and canned the same day.
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Now the fish that was to remain
here for local consumption would
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be cut and be dried in the sun.
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Today Nazare is probably better
known for its waves and
attracting big wave
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surfers like Garrett
McNamara then anything else.
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On October 17, 2011 McNamara
caught what may prove to be the
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biggest wave ever surfed, here
at Praia do Norte, The wave, was
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believed to have a
height of around 30m.
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You see the coast off Nazaré
is home to a special phenomenon
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known as the "Nazaré Canyon".
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This deep undersea trough is
deeper, longer, and wider than
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America's Grand Canyon.
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At one end, far out to sea,
the mouth of the canyon is wide.
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At the other end near to
the coast, the canyon is narrow.
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So water passing through this
natural funnel, are amplified
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and pressurized, creating
waves of skyscraper proportions.
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This rare formation is a gap in
the continental plate some 170km
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in length and 5km deep
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These streets are part of my
history, my heritage - it helps
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define who I am. You see, my mom
and my dad ran up and down these
streets as young children
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and later young adults until
there departure to Canada in
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1958. We are what our
ancestors have left us to be.
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But, if that's all we
are, then we're in sad shape.
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The painful truth is, although
we have roots and they are
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valuable for our
self-understanding, our roots
usually are not very pretty.
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Many of our ancestors are
worth little as models for us to
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imitate. That's even true
of our religious 'ancestors.
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Look at some of our
ancestors in faith .
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Abraham seemed forever clumsy.
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Once, while in Egypt, he tried
to pass off his wife, Sarah, as
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his sister so a Pharaoh with
a wandering eye would not become
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jealous and kill him to get her.
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King David.
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We usually remember David for
his battle against Goliath, his
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beautiful psalms,
his mighty kingdom.
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But David was also a philanderer
- he chased other men's wives.
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And when he caught them, as he
did Bathsheba, he wasn't above
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knocking off the husband
so he could marry the woman.
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Not exactly the
ideal ancestor to imitate.
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Then there's Jacob.
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With Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph,
he is a Patriarch and at the
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very base of our family roots.
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What we often forget is Jacob's
nickname was "tricky Jacob."
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He was sly and cunning.
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He cheated his brother out
of their father's inheritance.
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There's one more element to our
heritage, at least our religious
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heritage. Our ancestors in faith
left us not only a name, not
only a history, but
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also a blessing
- God's blessing.
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"I will bless you," says the
Lord to Abraham and his
descendants, "and make
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your name great, so
that you will be a blessing."
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What makes the heritage of the
faithful, to which we belong,
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different from any other family
tree and story the genealogists
can dig up, is not that we're
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better than anyone else.
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What makes us different
is we're blessed by God.
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God claims us.
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We are part of his clan.
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He made that investment in us;
he established his kinship in
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Exodus when he said, "You will
be my people, and I will be your
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God." And he demonstrated his
involvement in our clan when he
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sent his Son to
die on our behalf.
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It's not out of respect for our
heritage God accepts us; it's
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out of involvement in our past
that He loves us and stays
involved in our present.
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It is why, in the Lord's Prayer,
Christ permits us to say, "Our
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Father," when addressing God.
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This is a family affair.
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That serves to remind us that
we're part of a long line of the
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faithful, people who
have been blessed by God.
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When we confess that we remind
ourselves we need this blessing
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of God. We have no land, no
property we can truly call our
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own. Abraham never did
settle down in one place.
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Our life as God's children is a
journey, always searching for a
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Promised Land where life is
simple and good, but always
enduring, in the meantime,
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the world we pass by - the
confused world, the troubled
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world, the doubting world.
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And the irony is, it's not only
in that future land God promises
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to be with us, but in
this present journey also.
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You see, in this life, we will
never arrive at a Promised Land
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. This is the way
God meant it to be.
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The creed of faith, which links
us with our ancestors, never
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loses sight of the fact that the
faithful are always wanderers,
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always pilgrims.
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Indeed, the greatest irony here
is, having roots, we are yet
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rootless. Having this heritage
only reminds us we have no home.
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Examining our roots is not a
nostalgia trip from which we can
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return to a
comfortable secure present.
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It's a recognition that
our present has no security in
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anything temporal.
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Wandering means lacking
home, lacking many possessions,
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lacking even a country.
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As God's children, we inherit
nothing except His name, His
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blessing, and His promise to be
with us and help us make sense
out of a senseless world.
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Having roots in God's family
means our roots cannot be in the
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world we see around us today.
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The starkness of that reality
is demonstrated movingly in the
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play -- Fiddler on the Roof.
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As you may well know, this is
a story of a village of Russian
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Jews. They're faithful Jews;
"For them life was good; their
village of Anatevka
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thrives and, in their
prosperity, they see God's
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blessing. Then comes
the government persecution.
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Now they must move on;
they must lose their prosperity.
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But they manage to see that the
blessing of God, greater than
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their prosperity, is the promise
he made to them - the promise to
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be with them, to comfort
them, to give direction in their
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wandering. At movie's end, these
Jewish peasants pack their
carts, singing mournfully
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of Anatevka, the abandoned home.
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But they conclude by sighing,
"We'll find a new Anatevka; God
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will lead us.
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After all, he led our fathers!"
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When we announce and confess
that, we know our roots and our
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identity. And we know we are a
broken, but blessed, people, not
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rooted in a time or a place.
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We are rooted in a promise,
in a faith, in a journey.
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Let us pray.
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Father in heaven, thank you
for claiming us as your own.
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Father, if there is anyone
within the sound of my voice yet
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that has not chosen to be part
of this heritage of the
redeemed, I pray that they may
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choose Jesus right now.
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Please bless each and every
viewer, in Jesus' name, amen.
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Well, I hope you enjoyed that.
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Isn't it a
beautiful fishing village?
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You know, the Bible says that
our citizenship is in heaven.
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That means that it doesn't
matter what passport you carry,
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what nationality you claim.
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Our destiny is heaven.
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And that's God's desire
for each and every one of us.
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Some suggest that unless we
understand our legacy, we can
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never fully understand our
destiny and where it is that God
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wants to take us. The greatest
desire of God's heart is that
you and I spend an eternity
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with Him.
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Do you know how you
can make that a reality?
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You choose Jesus Christ
as your Lord and Saviour.
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You give Him
control of your heart.
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In every heart,
there is a throne.
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In every heart, there is a
battle over who we will allow to
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sit on the throne of our heart.
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Unless you allow Jesus to sit on
the throne of your heart, unless
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you do that, you will not ever
have the opportunity to worship
Him when He sits on the throne
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of the universe.
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Choose Jesus today.
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Choose everlasting life.
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I want to let you know that
we are continuing with our Bible
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prophecies seminar
in Belleville tonight.
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We will be back at the
Belleville Seventh-Day Adventist
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Church, 7 p.m. with another
topic in our series of Bible
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prophecy seminars. You know, if
you've been wrestling with
questions like, "What happens to
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us when we die?
00:22:15.76\00:22:17.33
" And, "Who is the antichrist?
00:22:17.33\00:22:18.96
" And, "Does the United States
play any role in Bible prophecy?
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" Then you're
going to want to join us.
00:22:23.83\00:22:25.93
Now, if you're watching and
you're not anywhere near
Belleville, then you
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can go on our website,
itiswrittencanada.ca, click on
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the "watch live" tab, and you
will be able to accompany the
Bible prophecies seminar from
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anywhere in Canada, anywhere
in the world, over the internet.
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You can watch it on your
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iPhone, on your iPad, on your
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eastern time tonight as we
transmit live from Belleville.
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I hope you'll join us.
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>>Bev: Hi, everyone!
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If you love pears and
persimmons, I have the easiest
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and yummiest raw dessert recipe
to share today: Pear Napoleon
with Pistachio Crumble and
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Persimmon Puree.
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Sound scrumptious?
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It is!
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Pears are a good source of
vitamin C and K, and the skin is
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a great source of
fibre and flavonoids.
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Persimmons are abundant in
winter and, if you wait until
they are ooey, gooey
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ripe, they are
especially delicious!
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Pistachios are a
lovely, buttery nut.
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They are high in healthy
fats and, thus, in calories.
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A quarter cup of raw, unsalted
pistachios has about 170
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calories, 6 grams of protein,
and around 14 grams of fat.
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Plus, fibre,
vitamins, and minerals.
00:24:09.73\00:24:12.46
This recipe is from the Bella
Vita Lifestyle Education Home in
00:24:12.46\00:24:16.00
California, where I had the
wonderful privilege to attend a
00:24:16.00\00:24:19.73
10-day therapeutic
detox/cleansingprogram.
00:24:19.73\00:24:23.63
It was an over-the-top-fantastic
experience physically,
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mentally, and spiritually!
00:24:27.76\00:24:30.00
This raw Pear Napoleon is just
one of the delicious raw recipes
00:24:30.00\00:24:34.60
we enjoyed, and I'm
adapting it just a little bit.
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All you'll need for one portion
of this lovely, raw dessert is:
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one pear, one ripe persimmon,
1/4 cup of chopped pistachios 1
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Tablespoon of sweetener, I'm
maple syrup and a 1/4 teaspoon
of ground cardamom or pumpkin
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spice.
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Now, look how easy this is!
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And how gorgeous!
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I've sliced up a pear and I'm
going to put one there and then
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I'm going to take the pistachios
that I already crumbled and I've
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already added the
sweetener to them.
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So we are going
to put them there.
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And then we are going to put
some of this delicious persimmon
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on top. And then we are going to
take another slice of pear and
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we are going to do that
whole thing all over again.
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Put the crumble -- I can't even
tell you how delicious it is --
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put some more of the crumble.
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And then some more of the
persimmon -- and for the
persimmon, all I did was I
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chopped it up and one of them
was really really mushy so I
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mashed that one and
then mixed the two together.
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And then, take another slice
of pear, see how it's building
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beautifully and
how it's all raw.
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So we put some more of the
crumble and then we put some
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more of the persimmon.
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And isn't that
georgous, isn't that beautiful.
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And then I made a cashew/
persimmon cream -- and you can
just kind-of put that
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on top and
drizzle it down the side.
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Isn't that beautiful.
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If you'd like information
about attending a therapeutic
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detox/cleansing program at
Bella Vita, their website is
00:26:17.73\00:26:22.73
modernmanna.org. I
highly, highly recommend them.
00:26:22.73\00:26:25.30
Tell them Bev sent you!
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I'll see you next time!
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Well, from Nazaré in
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Hope to see you again real soon.
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But remember, at is written: Man
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but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God.
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