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Beginning In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. “And God said: ‘Let us make man in our own image and likeness.’ …God made man in his own image… Male and female he created them…God blessed them, saying: ‘Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and conquer it…’ God saw all that he had made and indeed it was very good.” This was God’s plan for the procreation of the human race. Jesus Christ reminded us of this plan when he said: “Have you not read that the creator from the beginning made them male and female and that he said: ‘This is why a man must leave father and mother, and cling to his wife, and the two become one body’? They are no longer two, therefore, but one body. So then what God has united, man must not divide.” Unfortunately this wonderful plan became tainted as a result of original sin. Now we all have an inclination towards sin, as individuals, as couples, as families, as nations. At the same time divine providence offers each one of us sufficient graces to overcome that sinful inclination.
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