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WYD 2023 + 3 | Day 21–23 | Transfer Home

10/8/2026

 
To mark 3 years since going to WYD 2023 Lisbon, I’ll be posting some previously unseen photographs from each day of the pilgrimage. It won’t be anything extensive, but I hope you’ll still join me for the journey.

■ Day 21

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Last sight of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fátima, standing out against the early-morning mist / cloud / meteorological phenomenon (I'm not an expert, folks).
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)

Due to COVID-induced travel requirements, the whole of the diocesan pilgrimage was split over three separate departure routes from of Europe: Lisbon, Paris, and Madrid.
Myself and the pilgrim small group I was in would soon be on our allotted coach to Madrid. The last ones to leave Fátima, if memory serves—we were definitely the last ones to land back in Sydney at the end of everything.
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A very brief refuelling stop for both coach and pilgrims at the CESPA (now Moeve, S.A.) Border Portugal service station on the Spanish-side of the Portugal/Spain border.​
​(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
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Along the highway we passed the walled city of Ávila, home of St Teresa of Ávila, on our way to Madrid.
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
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View from the truly airport-adjacent hotel of the just visible lights of Madrid-Barajas International Airport.
(​Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)

​■ Day 22

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This mural by the Ecuadorian artist Oswaldo Guayasamín titled "Hispanoamérica", is opposite the platform screen doors in Terminal T4 for the Madrid-Barajas Airport People Mover, which our group took to reach to Terminal T4S (satellite terminal) where our flight was scheduled to depart from that day. 
(​Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
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Finally arriving, our flight to take us from Madrid to Doha, Qatar, for our connection home to Australia.
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
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Sustenance from one of the food courts in Doha’s Hamad International Airport after our flight had arrived from Madrid.
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
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Sculpture “Small Lie” by the artist KAWS in Hamad International Airport.
​(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)

​I don't know about it’s original artistic intent, but the posture accurately reflected what it felt like (for myself) nearing the end of those two-and-a-bit weeks of pilgrimage halfway around the world and back.

■ Day 23

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Hardly warm, but familiar and comforting, and appreciated, refreshment in the car after getting through the International Arrivals gauntlet (as a first-timer) at Sydney Airport in the late evening.
Vincent Cavanagh © 2023
Post scriptum
Thank you to those who joined me on this—rather foolish—endeavour of marking and reliving three years on the pilgrimage to
World Youth Day 2023 Lisbon.  I think it safe (if not more so for my own sanity) to say that this is where I leave buried the memory of WYD Lisbon and let the grass of time take over the disturbed soil beneath.
I leave the future memory-making to the younger ones in the Body of Christ.


Pax,
​​Vincent Cavanagh
10 August 2026
◀ 18. Fátima
⏮ 1. Departure

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WYD 2023 + 3 | Day 18–20 | Fátima Retreat

7/8/2026

 
To mark 3 years since going to WYD 2023 Lisbon, I’ll be posting some previously unseen photographs from each day of the pilgrimage. It won’t be anything extensive, but I hope you’ll still join me for the journey.

■ Day 18

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All stop while the more sporting–inclined pilgrims (not me) watched the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Round of 16 match between the Australian Women’s National Soccer Team, “the Matildas”, and Denmark on 7 August 2023.
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
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The coach to convey our cohort of pilgrims to Fátima finally arrived at the Iberostar Selection Lisboa a touch after 12 Noon.
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
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A quiet moment after the Mass that marked the beginning of the Retreat portion of the pilgrimage, inside the Chapel of (the former) Consolata Seminary, which is part of the Consolata Hotel complex in Fátima, Portugal.
The diocesan pilgrim group as a whole was split between this and another hotel for the duration of the retreat.
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)

■ Day 19

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Detail of some of the stained-glass windows depicting individual Saints inside the Chapel of St Stephen of Hungary at the end of the Via Sacra in Fátima.
From Left to Right: St Martin of Tours, St Adalbert of Prague, and St Mór (Maurus of Pécs)
.
​(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
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Crowds gather around the Chapel of the Apparitions for the evening’s Rosary in the Sanctuary of Fátima, ahead of the Candlelight Procession.
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)

■ Day 20

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The Eighth of the Fourteen bronze reliefs by the Portuguese sculptor Martinho de Brito depicting Mysteries of the Rosary inside the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, Fátima; this one showing Jesus being crowned with thorns by the Roman soldiers.
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
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One of a few murals in Fátima put up for World Youth Day 2023 Lisbon. The text in red on the left is the Portuguese for “World Youth Day” and the text on the right reads: “There is hurry in the air.”
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
Vincent Cavanagh
7 August 2026
◀ 17. WYD
21. Madrid ▶

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WYD 2023 + 3 | Day 4 | Ravenna

24/7/2026

 
To mark 3 years since going to WYD 2023 Lisbon, I’ll be posting some previously unseen photographs from each day of the pilgrimage on their respective days. It won’t be anything extensive, but I hope you’ll still join me for the journey.

■ Day 4

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Detail of the mosaic of the Procession of Virgins upon the left wall (facing the Altar) of the Basilica of Sant’Apollinaire Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy.
From Left to Right: St
 Caecilia (partially out of frame), St Eulalia, St Agnes, St Agatha, St Pelagia, St Euphemia of Chalcedon.
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
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Interior of The Chapel of Peace and Victory within ​the Basilica of Sant’Apollinaire Nuovo built in remembrance of the fallen of Word War I from across over Italy—including those unknown—and the benefactors who contributed to its construction. The chapel was consecrated on 30 November 1919.
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
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An eclectic mix of science-fiction-themed ephemera and other paraphernalia on display in the right-hand window of the historic, former C. Bubani haberdashery store off the Piazza del Popolo in Ravenna.
(Vincent Cavanagh © 2023)
Vincent Cavanagh
24 July 2026
◀ 3. Padua
5. Florence ▶

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St John Paul II YA Walking Pilgrimage 26/07/2025

25/7/2025

 

* Event Page is Now Archived *

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The grassroots Jubilee Walking Pilgrimage to St Patrick's Catholic Church, Gosford Parish - Shrine of JPII is on this Saturday, 26 July 2025.

Open to Young Adults as well as interested adults and retirees who wish to pray and ask the intercession of Pope St John Paul II for family, for their own families, for dear ones, children and grandchildren, and the defence of all families through out the world.

Further details can be found at the Facebook Event page here.

Please note: the Event page will only be active until the end of the Pilgrimage and Jubilee Prayers within the church itself. Thank you.


Vincent Cavanagh
26 July 2025

St Clare of Assisi (2025)

3/7/2025

 
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Vincent Cavanagh © 2025

   This portrait of St Clare of Assisi was painted on 5 June 2025, but as with most important artworks it took roughly a month of researching, thinking through, planning, and revising initial ideas before I finally started on the actual painting part—two days before the self-imposed deadline. I wanted it to be ready for to give as a birthday prayer card to a fellow pilgrim to WYD Lisbon, 2023.
​
   St Clare is the first spiritual daughter of St Francis of Assisi, having seen him renounce himself of his father and his family’s wealth when she was twelve-years old. She later joined him and the minor friars at the age of eighteen, and co-founder of the Order of Poor Ladies, more commonly known today as the “Poor Clares”. The Rule incorporates much of the original vision of St Francis, as well as a little Benedictine wisdom.
   ​In this painting she is seated with her lap open to all who are finding life difficult and seek her intercession. With one hand she is holding aloft a golden Monstrance containing the Eucharistic presence of Christ, representing when she held aloft the same Eucharistic presence when various marauding armies came to lay siege to Assisi during the 13th Century and from which shone so bright a light of heaven from the Monstrance that those same armies fled, leaving the city and convent of the Poor Clares safe from harm and destruction.
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Outside the Church of San Damiano, Assisi, during the 2023 WYD Lisbon pilgrimage through Italy. (Photo: by Author)

   On the top left of the painting is an image of the San Damiano cross from which St Francis received the vision of Christ speaking to him, ‘… go and rebuild my church …’
​
   The original San Damiano cross was the altarpiece inside the Church of San Damiano (depicted on the top right of the painting), it was moved when the Poor Clares left the San Damiano monastery in 1257 AD to the Basilica of St Clare in Assisi and they have to this day continued to guard it with great solitude because it St Francis had gifted San Damiano to St Clare and her companions for use as a convent in 1212 AD.
   In recent times there have been social media testimonies of women being visited by St Clare when in deep difficulty, and saying, ‘here are my soft hands, here is my soft lap’. These graces have resulted in significant conversions.


Vincent Cavanagh
3 July 2025

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RANDOM Things #003: Jubilee Rambling

9/6/2025

 
Okay, so, apart from posts to mark the death of Pope Francis and the election of Pope Leo XIV, I haven’t posted anything to this blog since the start of January 2025.
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My first Broken Bay Pilgrim Stamp to be collected in the 'Jubilee Pilgrim Passport', featuring St John Vianney.

This is mostly down to the year, for me, starting with a “sort of” setback which left me in a disoriented state for the first quarter of the year, or so, and not well disposed to doing anything particularly creative in the direction of new artwork. Nor did I feel it worthwhile to post anything about my father and I visiting the Sydney Bus Museum in Leichhardt for one of their open days, or our second visit to Hunter Valley Steamfest in Maitland either, or attending the 2025 Hunter Valley Airshow.
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Inspecting the Riley Brothers Bus at the Sydney Bus Museum, Leichhardt, NSW.

What has been occupying my attention, after a brainstorming session of possibilities with my mother, has been planning, mapping, testing, organizing, promoting, and leading Young Adult (18–35) Pilgrimages to the four Jubilee Shrines of Hope in the Diocese of Broken Bay for the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope:
  • St Mary Immaculate Manly – Shrine of Hope for Priests and Vocations.
  • Our Lady of Dolours Chatswood – Shrine of Hope for Young People.
  • St Patrick’s and the Shrine of JPII East Gosford – Shrine of Hope for Families.
  • Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral Hornsby (Waitara) – Cathedral of the Diocese of Broken Bay.
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Viewing the relic of St John Vianney at St Mary Immaculate Church in Manly, NSW.

​The whole effort was started, for the most part, because I didn’t expect anyone else to try and do something Young Adult-focused at a Diocesan–wide level for the Year of Jubilee, and because the Diocese itself had a reshuffle of ministry appointments and parish placements such that the former monthly Young Adult gatherings of previous years were dropped from the calendar without ceremony. For all appearances curial priorities had changed and if anything was going to happen Young Adult-wise it would have to be a self-initiated, grassroots affair, which I threw myself into with far more effort and emotion than strictly necessary. These pilgrimages are meant to give my fellow peers an opportunity for pilgrimage during this Year of Jubilee who aren’t able due to financial or familial circumstances to go overseas on pilgrimage to Rome like many others are doing. The four pilgrimages are spaced out to be once every second month to aid in giving a sense of the Jubilee truly being a year-long event and not just a blink-and-you-miss-it four-weekend marathon done-and-dusted, don’t-need-to-think-about-it-again situation.
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Pilgrims sitting before the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in Our Lady of Dolours Chatswood.
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Detail of the relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis, kept on the left of the Perpetual Adoration Chapel.

It is a moot point as to whether a four-weekend marathon mightn’t have been a better draw card for the intended audience, given that there have been only a handful of pilgrims turn up for both the first pilgrimage to Manly in March for the relic of St John Vianney and the second to Chatswood in May to visit the relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis. It’s depressing when spur-of-the-moment picnics and such get higher turnout from young adults than the thing that’s had so much blood, tears, and effort poured into it to give them an opportunity to gain the Year of Jubilee Indulgence and a reduction of a chunk of our time in Purgatory currently accrued to each of us individually — and that is worthwhile! ¹

I have to regularly remind myself that these pilgrimages aren’t a “me”–thing, they are from and for God — He’s the one who sparked the whole idea of organizing these walks — for purposes that only He knows the end result of, I’m just here to organise them. If even only one person shows up, that pilgrimage was successful.

​
If you or anyone you know would like to join along for next two pilgrimages, the dates are as follows:
  • 26 July 2025 – St John Paul II Pilgrimage to St Patrick’s and the Shrine of JPII East Gosford.
  • 13 September 2025 – Our Lady of the Rosary Pilgrimage to the Cathedral.
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— Draft promotionals --
These walks are open to all pilgrims from surround Dioceses and not just the Diocese of Broken Bay, and starting with the St John Paul II Pilgrimage they will be opened up to all interested pilgrims from 18 years old to retirement. Keep on the lookout for further details and Facebook Event pages about each walk from myself on Facebook or here on the blog. I hope to see you there.


Vincent Cavanagh
9 June 2025

​¹ The Jubilee Indulgence is explained in an accessible and down-to-earth way to all by Bishop of Wilcannia-Forbes Columba Macbeth-Green in the video linked below:
And in other news:
I have turned OFF comments on all my blog posts, apart from those made by verifiable human beings, due to an influx of spam e-mail / robot comments over the past year.
Moving forward I will be keeping the comments on this blog CLOSED until further notice. Thank you.

2025 Calendar: Now Available!

28/11/2024

 

*Orders are now Closed*

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Vincent Cavanagh © 2024

After having received them from the printers this morning, I can announce that my 2025 Calendar is now available for the coming year. The 2025 Calendar is a return both to sharing my artwork as well as the saints (and not yet declared saints) of the Catholic Church.


— Cost for the 2025 Calendars is $30 AUD each, plus postage (within Australia), with a deal for three (3) calendars at $80 AUD.

— Postage is as follows:
     +$3 AUD for 1 calendar
     +$4 AUD for 2*
     +$6 AUD for 3*
     * delivered in the same envelope.

— For International postal orders we will arrange Air Mail costs appropriately, on an order-by-order basis.

​
You can place your order through the form found under the Contact page or by messaging me via Facebook, or talk to me in person.


Vincent Cavanagh
28 Nov 2024
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Vincent Cavanagh © 2024
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Vincent Cavanagh © 2024

* 2025 Calendar Flip-Through GIF added — 6 December 2024.

Eileen O’Connor, ‘The Little Mother’

16/10/2024

 
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Eileen O’Connor, The Little Mother
3-4 October 2024
Ballpoint pen on Bond Layout paper, with minor digital correction of errant line work.

Vincent Cavanagh © 2024

EILEEN ROSALINE O’CONNOR was an Australian Catholic nun and co-founder with Fr Ted McGrath of the Society of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor – more colloquially known as the Brown Nurses or just Our Lady’s Nurses – a religious order whose mission was to give free care and nursing to the poor, especially those who had fallen through the cracks of regular systems.

Eileen could not stand or walk for much of her life due to a severe curvature of her spine from having fallen out of her perambulator (pram) at a young age. The extent of her height was 3 feet 9 inches (115 centimetres) from which was given the affectionate nickname of The Little Mother.

She lived most of her life at Coogee, a suburb of Sydney, except for when God healed her enough to go to Rome to obtain approval of her fledgling religious order. Such was her determination, that the rigours of travel did not deter her.

Despite being bedridden most of the time, Eileen was the hub of the order. She co-ordinated much through telephone calls. At the end of the day, she welcomed the Nurses home, and received their confidences. Having been so chronically ill herself, she knew just how much kindness and tenderness were needed in caring for the ill and the elderly, and how important it was to maintain the dignity of anyone they ministered to.

She died at the age of 28 from chronic spinal tuberculosis and exhaustion.


On Friday 16 August 2024, Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher OP officially signed off on the collated Australian documentation of Eileen O’Connor’s life for the Cause of Sainthood. And on Monday 14 October 2024, Archbishop Fisher formally presented the documentation in Rome to Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.


For further information about the life and work of Eileen O’Connor and the story of the Sisters of Our Lady’s Nurse of the Poor, visit the website for the Cause of Eileen’s Canonization here.

And as a clarifier, this step of the Canonization process is seeking for her to be recognized and approved by the Vatican as a Blessed; the step before being named a Saint in the Catholic Church.


Vincent Cavanagh
16 October 2024

Our Lady of La Vang, Viet Nam (2024)

22/8/2024

 
Painted 20–21 August 2024
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Vincent Cavanagh © 2024

On this Feast Day of The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary (22 August), I am relieved to finally reveal my attempt at portraying the apparition of Our Blessed Mother in 1798 to gathered Vietnamese Christians taking refuge from the persecution by the Nguyen Dynasty in the jungle forest in central Việt Nam, near the village of Quang Tri.

The origins of this project go back to November last year (2023) with a visit to the seminary used by the Diocese, but research for this painting started in earnest on 5 July 2024.

For more information about the apparition and Pope John Paul II’s later involvement read this detailed summary about Our Lady of La Vang at The Miracle Hunter website here.
This is the handed down Description of the Virgin from that same Miracle Hunter summary:
One evening, according to tradition, a lady of great beauty appeared to the refugees in the jungle, clad in white and surrounded by light, holding the infant Jesus in her arms, with two charming boys holding torches at her side. The lady walked back and forth several times in front of the Christians, her feet touching the ground.
Even the non-Christians who were there witnessed the vision.​”
I opted to save myself some artistic headache and stress by deciding to only focus on the Virgin, child, and torch bearing youths rather than attempting to include the onlooking Christians and have even less room for the actual apparition. I think that that decision has born itself out well.


Vincent Cavanagh
22 August 2024

RANDOM Things #001

29/6/2024

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Yes, I’m back and this may or may not be a newsletter under a different guise.​
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If only that were my jawline.

Apart from a small handful of photo-edited pictures that will never be seen outside of its intended audience in a group chat of my peers, I’ve been in a creative drought since about the end of March/start of April this year (2024). Being sick at home for the last three weeks of May with whatever strain of influenza is going around this winter didn’t help my creative juices either.

Also, this drought overlapping with my general backwards slide into doom-scrolling and wasted hours poured away to YouTube videos.

​Let’s be honest, the act of “doom-scrolling” is not the sole purview of life-sucking social media applications.
You can do it like I have 💀 by staring off into the sea of empty calorific YouTube video suggestions wondering what that last thought was that you didn’t want to forget. Or reading through multiple inter-referenced substack pages and church journalism and a touch too much European politics “news” – which I still don’t have my head around; and should probably be grateful for that fact.
Or not-quite-compulsively checking either the weather application or if there are any updates on Facebook Messenger to previous text messages (or trying to reverse engineer which comment someone liked due to the latest update, grrr!)

Speaking of substack pages, one that I’ve been gravitating back to of late—and isn’t as overly swimming in bar graphs or generally depressing as others—is the School of the Unconformed by Ruth Gaskovski. For about the past year(?) or so she has been doing shared essays with her husband Peco that they cross-post between each other’s substack page (Peco’s is Pilgrims in the Machine).

The general theme of their essays is regaining man’s [1] humanity from both the jaws and bowels of the inhuman Machine world we now find ourselves living in.

Of which this quote by Ruth from their recent article, ‘Building People with Three-Dimensional Memory’, is an example:
The incessant distraction of interfacing with devices leaves us feeling as if our brain and our body are forever in a different place. It almost seems as if we are in a race to upload our life into the virtual universe. Our desire to capture and share the present is numbing our ability to form natural memories of the moments we want to actually treasure. By excessively documenting our lives artificially Marshall McLuhan might say we are “autoamputating” our memory.

When we use our devices as memory keepers, we not only interfere with the formation of long-term memories, but we also flatten our experience and personal identity into a one-dimensional digitized version of ourselves.”
​And Peco continues in his section of the piece by exemplifying how technology is artificially engendering the tell-tale symptoms of Alzheimer’s into all of us glued to our digital devices:
Some segments of the culture might experience a carefree insouciance as they become largely forgetful of what has come before—the wisdom, knowledge, and traditions of history—and more gripped by the here-and-now stimulation of their screens.
​
As real Alzheimer's progresses, there is not only memory loss, but disorientation, anxiety, depression, aggressive behavior (…) Reliance on a support system of machines to hold our collective memories is a formula for docility. When Steve Jobs brought us [the] Apple computer we were promised bicycles for the mind, but many of us feel we’re ending up with cognitive wheelchairs.”
I would highly encourage anyone else interested to read the whole article here. As well as Ruth’s interview with Erin Loechner (don’t worry, I’d never heard of her either), ‘Turning the Algorithm Upside Down: The Opt-Out Family’, where Erin answers Ruth’s daughter’s question of whether there even is a “healthy” way to be on social media:
I know the more palatable answer here is to speak of digital well-being and balance and how to successfully navigate the algorithm in a way that we can consume the good without the bad. But we can’t. Just like any mind-altering drug we might ingest, social media makes it so we are not in control of the experience we’ll have immediately after. And I can no longer see any potential reward in delivering our God-given brains to a [tattooed] group of tech bros in Silicon Valley.”

~ (emphasis my own)
[Note: At the time of writing, this post by the Gaskovski’s was open to non-subscribers (June 2024), future readers of this blog post may find these articles behind Subscription/Pay Walls. Their substack posts tend to be open for a few months before going behind the Subscription Wall, depending on whether an article is important enough that it remain open for the greatest number of people to read and gain use from it.]

Keepin’ Up wit’ Gen Z

​Now on to lighter fare. Amongst my varying sojourns through internet-life I have compiled a list of all the various different Internet Grammar and Acronyms that I’ve come across over the past month or so:

LLAP
‘Live Long and Prosper’ 🖖

rekt
Internet form of ‘Wrecked’.

🗿 Moai (Easter Island Head) emoji.
Used to communicate a deadpan or shocked/embarrassed-into-speechlessness expression.
Or alternatively—if in Japan—used to arrange meeting up with people at the Moyai statue near Shibuya Station in Tokyo.

IYKYK
‘If You Know, You Know’

Vietnamese “teencodes”:
Hixx or Hixxxxx – written version of 😢 (crying face emoji).
Huhu – written version of 😭 (loudly crying face – or as I know it, ‘waterfall tears’).

TIL
‘Today I Learned.’

ily / ILY
‘I Love You.’
Not to be confused with illy, the Italian Espresso company.

bby / BBY
Internet alternative form of ‘Baby’. (ex. ‘Woohoo BBY!’)
More often used when using ‘baby’ as a term of endearment.

RTFM
‘Read The … Manual!’
Often used within the Linux user community forums.

Jubilee 2025

For those of us not on TikTok (or whichever platform it was announced on), the Reverend Samuel French (@frsamfrench) will be leading a pilgrimage in the footsteps of St Paul through Greece and Turkey with Harvest Journeys exclusively for Young Adults aged 18 to 35 for the Holy Year of Jubilee in 2025: ‘Pilgrims of Hope’.

More information about the pilgrimage can be found here.
AS I WROTE at the beginning of this blog, this post may effectively be a newsletter in all but name. Yes, there are already plenty of other blog posts on this website that have been tagged with “newsletter”, but I specifically chose to name this RANDOM Things #001 because I’d prefer to make a clean break of the prior hodgepodge of blog posts and because the perfectionist in me wouldn’t let up unless I went through and counted every-single-blog-post with either tag or semblance of “newsletter” both on this website and its predecessor. Which is not an option that I look upon with any enthusiasm, hence why RANDOM Things #001.

I do—and I ask that you reading this likewise—not expect this to in any way be a regular or (dear God save me) quarterly affair. It is my estimation that RANDOM Things be more of an ‘every now and then’ or just ‘I haven’t painted anything, but here’s what’s been kicking around in my head recently’ type of blog post.

So until the next one of these not-newsletters eventuates; Peace and Happy Feast of St Peter and St Paul.


Vincent Cavanagh
29 June 2024

Footnotes
[1]
 As in the genus man (mankind) of which both men and woman, male and female, make up the whole category (ex., “earth men” and “Men of Earth”) – for the peculiarly post-Age of Aquarius pedants out there.

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