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"God is love and in himself he lives a mystery of personal loving communion. Creating the human race in his own image . . .. God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation, and thus the capacity and responsibility, of love and communion."¹¹⁴ FC 11. "God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them";¹¹⁵ Gen 1:27. He blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply";¹¹⁶ Gen 1:28. "When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created."¹¹⁷ Gen 5:1-2.