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You Get Me Closer to God: Pain, Pleasure, and Transcendence in the Catholic Imagination with Sarah Lyons, beginning July 12


The dichotomy the mystical experience, pain and pleasure, transcendence and union, the grotesque and the sublime. This has been the source of some of the most iconic works of art, and the most gut-wrenching spiritual practices in the west. Join celebrated writer, witch, and filmmaker Sarah Lyons in examining mortification of the flesh as a means of transcendence, and mystical communion within Catholicism through a historical and artistic lens.

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YOU GET ME CLOSER TO GOD: PAIN, PLEASURE AND TRANSCENDENCE IN THE CATHOLIC IMAGINATION, WITH SARAH LYONS, BEGINNING JULY 12