i) it is necessary for the individual's own growth and well-being;
ii) it helps people to have a balanced personality;
iii) it helps them to relate to others with ease and in a mature way enabling them to minister to others effectively;
iv) it gives, especially those who have to live a celibate life, the human qualities (e.g., ability to relate, self-control) necessary for living their celibacy faithfully;
v) it is easier for persons to receive grace and grow in spiritual qualities if the ordinary defenses and blocks in their life are removed (e.g., those who have been abused by their fathers find it difficult to accept God as a loving Father);
vi) it helps them to be "living images" of Jesus Christ, who was a fully mature human being.
Two key components of human formation are formation to a) psychological maturity and b) affective and sexual maturity. We have already explained in the earlier part of this chapter in what psychological and sexual maturity consists. Hence, here we shall limit ourselves to two other observations.