Why do you affirm that celibacy is a path to Christian fullness?

Father García-Morato: Both celibacy as well as marriage are paths to Christian fullness, namely, to holiness.   St. John in his gospel reveals that “God is Love” and because we are created in God’s image and likeness, we are all called to love.  Christian revelation points out two vocational paths of fully realizing this divine identity: marriage and celibacy in any of its forms.  Both are included in God's plans.  Both need each other to understand each other better.  Both are a ways of self-giving.  And in order to give oneself, one must first possess oneself.  As a person created in God’s image and likeness, we are not "half a person."   Each person is complete in himself.  Only a complete person can bring his whole self into play and give himself — to God or to another person — with sufficient maturity to make that decision freely. This is why chastity and celibacy are part of the path of human and Christian fullness.   Because when it comes to loving God, in response to a call that is implied in that gift, every dimension of our humanity must come into play, especially those that depend on the masculine or feminine condition, excluding simply the exercise of sexuality outside of monogamous marital relations.  That was the lifestyle of Jesus Christ, the perfect man, and of the Virgin Mary - a lifestyle that has an irreplaceable role in the history of redemption.