Conferences for Study and Prayer
The Conferences for Study and Prayer (CSP) are organized by the Religious Order Miles Christi. These conferences are aimed specifically at helping the intellectual and spiritual formation of the faithful. This podcast is a compilation of the talks given at these conferences starting in 2002. For more information about Miles Christi please visit our website at www.mileschristi.org
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Episodes

Dec 1, 2024
Dec 1, 2024
1 hr 3 min
In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss one of the biggest challenges facing the New Evangelization; that Catholics are not able to rationally justify their faith as a response to God’s revelation. Catechesis must present the motives of credibility of the Catholic faith, and adult Catholics have the responsibility to be able to articulate these motives of credibility to others.

Dec 1, 2024
Dec 1, 2024
53 min
In this talk, Dr. Janet Smith will compare the Culture of Life vs. the Culture of Death.

Dec 1, 2024
Dec 1, 2024
57 min
In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss Blessed John Henry Card. Newman (1801-1892), his life and his battle against Liberalism.

Dec 1, 2024

Jan 1, 2025
Jan 1, 2025
44 min
In this talk, Rev. Peter Ryan. SJ, will discuss the life and influence of St. Ignatius of Loyola and how his conversion and personal spiritual experiences set the ground for what we now call the Ignatian spirituality.

Jan 1, 2025
Jan 1, 2025
58 min
In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss what a spirituality is and why there are different spiritualities within the life of the Church. He will also discuss how the Ignatian spirituality encompasses the essential elements of Catholic spirituality.

Jan 1, 2025
Jan 1, 2025
1 hr 1 min
In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will take a look at the virtue of magnanimity and how St. Ignatius highlights and fosters this supernatural virtue directed to the greater glory of God.

Jan 1, 2025
Jan 1, 2025
53 min
In this talk, Fr. Matthew Maxwell will give an explanation of the Spiritual Exercises and why this powerful retreat is so praised and recommended by the Church and how it is the source and foundation of the Ignatian spirituality.

Jan 1, 2025
Jan 1, 2025
53 min
In this talk Fr. Patrick Wainwright will discuss some of the key elements of the Ignatian spirituality, and will look more in depth at what they are and how they fit into our spiritual lives.

Jan 1, 2025
Jan 1, 2025
58 min
In this talk, Fr. John Ezratty will explain the fundamental rules of discernment of spirits, passed on to us by St. Ignatius in the Spiritual Exercises, designed to help us find true freedom and peace.


