The foundation for the covenant is love: God's love. Jesus reinforces that God's law is a law of love. It is not a weapon to condemn or instill fear and anxiety, but rather it is intended for our well-being. It is both a prescription and a description: God loves and cares for us, and we are to love and care for one another. This is how Jesus teaches us to understand and use the law, and when we do, we come closer together to the kingdom of God's love and peace, the foretaste of which we share in the Eucharist.
– Fr. Canisius