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"The Scream" and the Sacred

July 07, 2022

Munch’s “The Scream” is a metaphor for humanity stripped of the sacred, alone in a random universe, “condemned to be free” (Sartre).

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I invite you to participate with me in thinking, imagining, and praying about what is really important to our lives in an age of distractions, superficial seeking for happiness, loss of purpose, and political, social ideologies “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”  Too much passionate intensities about the banal, too little contemplative wisdom about that which is true, good, and beautiful.

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