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Fr. Ignatius John Schweitzer: The New Law, Nourishment of the Heart – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Ignatius John Schweitzer: The New Law, Nourishment of the Heart

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Bible, heart. Photo by Andres Siimon on Unsplash.

By Fr. Ignatius John Schweitzer, OP, Catholic Exchange, Feb. 13, 2026

OP, recently coauthored the book How to Be His: A 33-Day Dedication to Our Eucharistic Jesus with Fr Jesse Maingot, OP, and coauthored a book on St. Elizabeth with Julie Enzler and Dr. Anthony Lilles, called Named for Glory: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity’s Identity and Mission, both of which are available through Sophia Press. Fr. Ignatius is a professor and the director of spiritual formation at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, New York, the provincial promoter of the Lay Dominicans, and the chaplain for Emmaus Journey. His YouTube channel, Dominican House of Prayer, may be located here

Editor’s Note: This is the seventh article of a CE series on “Exegesis of the Word” by Fr. Ignatius Schweitzer, breaking open each Sunday’s readings for eight consecutive weeks. Catch up on previous articles here!

 

Fr. Ignatius John Schweitzer, OP headshotThe Sermon on the Mount raises the moral bar, as it goes beyond the mere letter of the Law into the spiritual depths of the heart. It challenges us to cultivate hearts attuned to the ways of God. Our righteousness is to exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees by not simply avoiding murder, adultery, and false oaths, but by living out the spiritual core of these commands from the heart.

Using the Spiritual Senses

As this Sunday’s First Reading points out, in the Lord’s Word there is the choice between fullness of life and death. In Christ’s Gospel teachings, St. John Paul II has observed that we have not so much an “accusation” but a “promise”—not an accusation against lust but a promise of the grace of integral purity. What God commands, He gives us the grace to live out. There is a promise of grace, flowing from our life in Jesus, that shapes our hearts to be like His. It also gives us a foretaste of what the Kingdom of Heaven will be like when we all will live in peace and concord with purity of heart and intention, putting God first and living fully in the Kingdom of Love. ….

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