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"Conjugal Love involves a totality, in which all the elements of the perSon Enter - appeal of the body and instinct, power of feeling and affectivity, aspiration of the spirit and of will. It aims at a deeply Personal Unity, a unity that, beyond Union in one Flesh, Leads to forming one Heart and Soul; it demands indissolubility and Faithfulness in Definitive mutual Giving; and it is open to fertility. In a word it is a question of the normal Characteristics of all Natural conjugal love, but with a new significance which not only purifies and Strengthens them, but raises them to the extent of making them the Expression of specifically Christian values." 150

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