More wisdom from Hans Urs von Balthasar

In his earthly living and dying, Jesus perfectly accomplishes the ideal that the righteous man of the Old Testament attempted to display in his own life. The sole aim of Jesus’ existence, in other words, is the pure glorification of the Father. It is to do, not his own will, but the Father’s that he came; it is not his own teaching that he proclaims but the teaching of the One who sent him.

—Hans Urs von Balthasar from Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises