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 1 Text|           expansion into the form of family wherein more persons share
 2 Text|           sacredness of marriage and family primarily lies not in the
 3 Text|        communion.~Thus the Christian family aims at the mutual sacrifice
 4 Text|         which the institution of the family may achieve its divine goals.~
 5 Text|              wife is enriched in the family through a second level of
 6 Text|         interpersonal relations, the family becomes the most dynamic
 7 Text|            social motivation, in the family and the Church, which is
 8 Text|             the Church, which is the family of God, the motivation is
 9 Text|   sacramental. This is precisely why family and Church are of unique
10 Text|           the person who has, in the family and in the Church, experienced
11 Text|             in the whole body of the family unit, one is ready to accept
12 Text|      presence of others in one's own family.~The sense of family among
13 Text|             own family.~The sense of family among Mediterranean people -
14 Text|           normally one member of the family does not feel bothered by
15 Text| incomprehensible to a modern Western family. Yet the sacrifices often
16 Text|              from all members of the family in every possible difficulty
17 Text|           number of members in one's family.~In addition to the above,
18 Text|             should conclude that the family, as structured in the Orthodox