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*Originally posted 23 July 2023. ~ Re-posted on 4 November 2025 to bypass unresolved Weebly website editor glitch on the original post.
Vincent Cavanagh 23 July 2023, 7:30 AM Padua–Venice time | 3:30 PM Sydney time.
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.
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 Comments closed |
 HO-scale Beyer Garratt passing through a model replica of Goulburn Railway Station, Goulburn Model Rail Expo 2024. |  Sydney Bus Museum AEC Regent III 2878, Sydney Transport Heritage Expo 2024 (Kodak M38, UltraMax 400) |  Railmotor CPH No.7 idling at Maitland Railway Station. (Kodak M38, UltraMax 400) |
In comparison to 2023: 2024 was an exponential increase of train trips, train festivals and rail heritage excursions with my father. Our travels took us north to the Hunter Region around Newcastle and as far south as Goulburn and the Southern Highlands. Indeed, there were many long days with very-early morning starts. But we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless, yet we were very tired by the end of those same days.
September saw me travelling by airplane up to Brisbane for the IGNITE Conference 2024 organized by Emmanuel Community and its Ignite Youth ministry team.
This was the real curveball of 2024 and it was my first ever experience of IGNITE.
September saw me travelling by airplane up to Brisbane for the IGNITE Conference 2024 organized by Emmanuel Community and its Ignite Youth ministry team.
This was the real curveball of 2024 and it was my first ever experience of IGNITE.
Archbishop Mark Coleridge at the microphone.
All the talks by various speakers that I went to were good and informative on different parts of the Catholic faith life. A special stand out was the Archbishop of Brisbane, Mark Coleridge’s talk on Encountering the Scriptures where he discussed how the bible “goes to the heart of hopelessness to find a hope that cannot be destroyed.”
He truly enkindled in his audience a greater appreciation of “the black fire on white fire” as the Rabbis describe the Holy Scriptures.
He truly enkindled in his audience a greater appreciation of “the black fire on white fire” as the Rabbis describe the Holy Scriptures.
Emmanuel Worship on stage, IGNITE Conference 2024 Brisbane.
The rallies at IGNITE were experiences. There was much good in them, but by the end of the three-and-a-bit days I was ready to run back to my bunk-hole at home and not have another thousand decibels going right through my body.
After attending IGNITE and commuting across Brisbane each morning and evening, it has confirmed to me that what’s needed is smaller and quieter events where good conversation can take place. There’s a place for the big events, as long as they are not the only option available.
After attending IGNITE and commuting across Brisbane each morning and evening, it has confirmed to me that what’s needed is smaller and quieter events where good conversation can take place. There’s a place for the big events, as long as they are not the only option available.
Kodak M38 point-and-shoot camera arranged with Kodak UltraMax 400 speed film.
On a less frazzled note, that same month I also started shooting 35mm film with a re-loadable plastic point-and-shoot camera. It has been a nice change of pace from taking photos with my smartphone.
I don’t really know or have even an idea of what 2025 will bring, apart for the Jubilee Year of Hope that has just begun. Dear God, may this new year see an outpouring of Your love and of experiences of hopes and dreams fulfilled.
Let’s see if there’ll be a 2025 Review, eh?
Vincent Cavanagh
3 Jan 2025
I don’t really know or have even an idea of what 2025 will bring, apart for the Jubilee Year of Hope that has just begun. Dear God, may this new year see an outpouring of Your love and of experiences of hopes and dreams fulfilled.
Let’s see if there’ll be a 2025 Review, eh?
Vincent Cavanagh
3 Jan 2025
Always be ready to make your defence to anyone who demands from you an account
of the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence.
~ 1 Peter 3:15-16, NRSV Catholic
of the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence.
~ 1 Peter 3:15-16, NRSV Catholic
I will endeavour in this personal, reflective piece not to repeat things that I have already written much about before.
'Rise Up', Vincent Cavanagh © 2024
LISBON World Youth Day Week started on a Tuesday, 1 August 2023, which makes keeping track of events personally in one’s mind rather difficult. Later on, at times one could be forgiven for the honest mistake of losing, or even gaining, a day on your internal calendar.
Yes, I’m back and this may or may not be a newsletter under a different guise.
 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:
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.
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.
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
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.
[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.
Happy Feast of St Joseph.
Painted 14 March 2024
Painted 14 March 2024
‘St Joseph and Jesus (2024)’,
Vincent Cavanagh, 2024
Vincent Cavanagh, 2024
This painting may have only taken a day to paint, but it was a whole year—and two months—in the making. The product of a deadline that I didn’t think that I was even supposed to be working towards and God’s Timing. Aack!
Leaving the histrionics aside, the photograph that this picture of St Joseph and the child Jesus is based upon was taken at a local church just before mass. A father was sitting with his family in a pew, about three rows over, holding his sleeping youngest son over his shoulder. One of those “take a photo or regret it”–moments from God.
In the end, very little actually changed from the photograph—well, apart from changing clothes to robes, adding head coverings, and including hair on the back of St Joseph’s head, of course.
Leaving the histrionics aside, the photograph that this picture of St Joseph and the child Jesus is based upon was taken at a local church just before mass. A father was sitting with his family in a pew, about three rows over, holding his sleeping youngest son over his shoulder. One of those “take a photo or regret it”–moments from God.
In the end, very little actually changed from the photograph—well, apart from changing clothes to robes, adding head coverings, and including hair on the back of St Joseph’s head, of course.
 Holy Family (detail), William Holman Hunt, The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple, 1860 ( Reference ) | Colour–wise, I do admit taking a very strong inspiration from Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt’s The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple, his effort of producing an ethnographically correct depiction of “Christ Among the Doctors” (of the Jewish Law), for which he travelled through the Middle East searching first-hand for information about Jewish customs and finding models for the figures he wished to depict. He was very specific in including Biblical symbolism in his work: the colours of Jesus’ robes being the same blue, purple, and crimson that God instructed Moses to use for the veils in the Tent of Meeting as well as in the robes for Aaron the High Priest (Exodus 26 and 28, respectively). The one–and–a–half day deadline (getting back to the histrionics) was because the whole reason behind this rush was the intention to gift a printed version of ‘St Joseph and Jesus (2024)’ to the housemates of the Joseph House, a men's discernment house in the Diocese of Broken Bay, at a youth event on the night of the day after the day I had left to paint the picture by. |
This whole hectic schedule of events was due to a conflicting parish event after the youth night and the lateness of the St Joseph’s Day Eve party at Joseph House being on at a prohibitively late time for me to attend.
In the end the picture was printed (Thank God!) and present to the housemates, and it should now be hanging somewhere inside Joseph House.
Vincent Cavanagh
19 Mar 2024
In the end the picture was printed (Thank God!) and present to the housemates, and it should now be hanging somewhere inside Joseph House.
Vincent Cavanagh
19 Mar 2024
Now, as for an update on my previous update about working on writing down my experiences of WYD Lisbon, that’s no longer moving forward. I’m not joking when I write that it was a commandment from on high. And given how much I was reliving certain emotions to an unhealthy amount, I’m more than alright with just letting it drop and focusing on what God actually wants me to be focused on instead.
Ask God before you leap into things whether you should be leaping into them at all.
P.S. Also, the writing was the reason that I only had a single day left to paint Joseph and Jesus. (Face palm) Oi vey!
Ask God before you leap into things whether you should be leaping into them at all.
P.S. Also, the writing was the reason that I only had a single day left to paint Joseph and Jesus. (Face palm) Oi vey!
A brief update as to what I’m up to at the moment.
| For those of you wondering what I've been up to for the past fortnight since my last post, I am currently in the midst* of going through and writing down my experiences and various lessons learned (often the hard way) from my pilgrimage to World Youth Day Lisbon. The end result may yet turn out to be a book, it’s still early days yet. One day at a time. As such, don’t expect too many “regular” blog posts for the foreseeable future. Save for the odd heritage train excursion here and there. It seems to be a year of them. Until next post, peace. Vincent Cavanagh 10 Mar 2024 |  The illustrious @frsamfrench in Lisbon before the start of the Stations of the Cross, 4 August 2023 (Vincent Cavanagh) |
*midst | as in: ‘in the midst of him’; not a synonym for ‘middle’.
19 Mar 2024
For any update about the writing, you'll find it at the bottom of the next blog post.
For any update about the writing, you'll find it at the bottom of the next blog post.
Reviewing my 12-Month Social Media Exodus.
Heading towards the Marquês de Pombal Monument, Lisbon. Vincent Cavanagh ©2023
Well, it’s been 12 months since I started my Social Media Exodus and now it’s time to review the year that was.
Okay, so starting off, 2023 was World Youth Day year for me. You may have seen some posts here and there on the blog and archived on the website, and possibly also on Facebook (sarcasm).
Speaking of the aforementioned social media platform, I think it’s safe to say that (apart from WYD) I haven’t been signed into it any more than strictly necessary. Nowadays it functions, for me personally, as more of an alert-slash-events manager and reference tool for finding people and past events.
Since WYD I have been using Messenger far more than I thought I ever would in my whole life.
It’s certainly been a change of pace having a social life.
Okay, so starting off, 2023 was World Youth Day year for me. You may have seen some posts here and there on the blog and archived on the website, and possibly also on Facebook (sarcasm).
Speaking of the aforementioned social media platform, I think it’s safe to say that (apart from WYD) I haven’t been signed into it any more than strictly necessary. Nowadays it functions, for me personally, as more of an alert-slash-events manager and reference tool for finding people and past events.
Since WYD I have been using Messenger far more than I thought I ever would in my whole life.
It’s certainly been a change of pace having a social life.
A day out on Sydney Harbour. Vincent Cavanagh ©2023
Twitter is all but officially mothballed, waiting for a reason (if any) to actively post on it again.
Even though most Catholic parish Youth Ministries appear to have highly active profiles, I still don’t ever see myself returning to Instagram. Certainly not under my own name in any case.
As for YouTube… oh, dear. Apart from proactively uploading two videos from WYD Lisbon featuring the lead vocals of Fr Samuel French I’ve been passively over-consuming other people’s YouTube videos.
Even though most Catholic parish Youth Ministries appear to have highly active profiles, I still don’t ever see myself returning to Instagram. Certainly not under my own name in any case.
As for YouTube… oh, dear. Apart from proactively uploading two videos from WYD Lisbon featuring the lead vocals of Fr Samuel French I’ve been passively over-consuming other people’s YouTube videos.
My anxieties over travel, packing, and WYD preparations absolutely did not help cut down on my ‘Watch time’ as I had hoped to rein in 12 months earlier. Being stuck in a maelstrom of choice-paralysis over what small new camera to buy to take over with me to Europe for the pilgrimage didn’t cut down wasted hours either. And in any case, I ended up taking more photos with my smartphone than I did with the camera I bought to stop me over-using said same smartphone. Live and learn, eh? I have bought a Peak Design camera strap that should help aid in using the camera more in future.
And speaking of the future, I am all too aware of my current (ahem!) “habit” of bookmarking videos and website articles about various different foods, religious sites, and locations of interest across both East and Southeast Asia in the possibility of preparation(!) for 2027 World Youth Day. People are not kidding when they talk about the WYD/Travel "bug".
And speaking of the future, I am all too aware of my current (ahem!) “habit” of bookmarking videos and website articles about various different foods, religious sites, and locations of interest across both East and Southeast Asia in the possibility of preparation(!) for 2027 World Youth Day. People are not kidding when they talk about the WYD/Travel "bug".
As an aside, I still don’t think that I’d ever be able to learn, let alone read, Hangul / Hangeul, the Korean alphabet. I’ve accepted that A) I don’t have to know everything and B) that I’m going to be especially reliant on those who can and have persevered to learn Korean.
Returning to YouTube specifically, I did come across the DF Tube Chrome Extension that has been of some great help in cutting down more video-related rabbit holes than I would have without it.
Its main attraction (for me) was the ability to turn off the righthand video suggestion box whilst watching a YouTube video. Admittedly it makes things lopsided visually, but it does mean that I have fewer distractions from the video in front of me. Sadly, DF Tube can’t do anything about my procrastination. That’s all on me.
So, to sum up. I have been relatively withdrawn from my social media profiles – discounting blogging about the WYD pilgrimage. I have gained a social life that is aided by messaging applications which come with their own problems – the applications, not the social life.
My personal struggles with self-discipline and YouTube over-consumption remain. In part I know that some of this is due to a lack of projects and regular routine. Pray for me.
Putting my focus on posting blogs and standardizing parts of this website has helped me feel less pressured than I would have been if I was still only posting on Facebook or Twitter. As well as not having as much comparison-itis with the edited and project lives of other people on social media. This doesn’t mean that I still don’t struggle with comparison, it’s just not as severe as it has been in the past.
In closing I think that I will continue as I have done so these past 12 months and with God’s help get a better grip over my YouTube-surfing and other self-defeating habits.
Until next time.
Vincent Cavanagh
25 Jan 2024
Returning to YouTube specifically, I did come across the DF Tube Chrome Extension that has been of some great help in cutting down more video-related rabbit holes than I would have without it.
Its main attraction (for me) was the ability to turn off the righthand video suggestion box whilst watching a YouTube video. Admittedly it makes things lopsided visually, but it does mean that I have fewer distractions from the video in front of me. Sadly, DF Tube can’t do anything about my procrastination. That’s all on me.
So, to sum up. I have been relatively withdrawn from my social media profiles – discounting blogging about the WYD pilgrimage. I have gained a social life that is aided by messaging applications which come with their own problems – the applications, not the social life.
My personal struggles with self-discipline and YouTube over-consumption remain. In part I know that some of this is due to a lack of projects and regular routine. Pray for me.
Putting my focus on posting blogs and standardizing parts of this website has helped me feel less pressured than I would have been if I was still only posting on Facebook or Twitter. As well as not having as much comparison-itis with the edited and project lives of other people on social media. This doesn’t mean that I still don’t struggle with comparison, it’s just not as severe as it has been in the past.
In closing I think that I will continue as I have done so these past 12 months and with God’s help get a better grip over my YouTube-surfing and other self-defeating habits.
Until next time.
Vincent Cavanagh
25 Jan 2024
Just a brief update to let you all know that, yes, I am still alive.
I am currently in the middle of a 6-week course on “Theology of Body” by Pope John Paul II which is taking up nearly all of my mental and physical energy and leaving myself with not much left in tank for anything.
This is in addition to my general lack of focus and purpose in the wake of World Youth Day Lisbon 2023 and finishing my 2024 Calendar.
Currently, I find myself living (read: surviving) from one ex-WYD pilgrim social event/get-together to the next, which are so far averaging about a month apart. Post-World Youth Day Blues? Perhaps.
I know that I shouldn’t complain, because before WYD I had never had any social life what is filling up my calendar now. But I am aware of how fickle sudden-social-relationships can dissipate in the blink of an eye unless they are tended to and (hopefully) cultivated into last friendships.
Please kindly keep myself and all my fellow “Theology of the Body” course participants in your prayers.
Thank you.
Vincent Cavanagh
22 Oct 2023
I am currently in the middle of a 6-week course on “Theology of Body” by Pope John Paul II which is taking up nearly all of my mental and physical energy and leaving myself with not much left in tank for anything.
This is in addition to my general lack of focus and purpose in the wake of World Youth Day Lisbon 2023 and finishing my 2024 Calendar.
Currently, I find myself living (read: surviving) from one ex-WYD pilgrim social event/get-together to the next, which are so far averaging about a month apart. Post-World Youth Day Blues? Perhaps.
I know that I shouldn’t complain, because before WYD I had never had any social life what is filling up my calendar now. But I am aware of how fickle sudden-social-relationships can dissipate in the blink of an eye unless they are tended to and (hopefully) cultivated into last friendships.
Please kindly keep myself and all my fellow “Theology of the Body” course participants in your prayers.
Thank you.
Vincent Cavanagh
22 Oct 2023
Cremorne Reserve Lighthouse, Sydney Harbour | Vincent Cavanagh © 2023
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Illustration Of Text
Illustration Portfolio
Image Process
Ink Brush
Ink & Copic Markers
Ink & Digital Colour
Inktober
Inktober 2019
Inktober 2020
Ink & Watercolour
In Review
Italy
IWitness
Jubilee 2025
Lent
Lisbon
London Art College
Looser Work
Madonna And Child
Maronite
Martyr
Mentorship
Michelangelo
Mixed Media
Mixing It Up
Mother's Day
New Season
Newsletter
Nib Ink
Oceania
OSA Order Of St Augustine
Our Lady
Our Lady Of Sorrows/Dolours
Paper Art
Pen Ink
Pentecost
Pictorial
Picture Book Spread
Podiatrist
Pope Francis (I)
Pope Leo XIV
Popes
Pope St John Paul II
Portugal
Prayer Cards
Project Portfolio
Puffing Billy Railway
RAAF
RANDOM Things
Religious Images
Requiescat In Pace
Robots
Rome
Saints
Servite Founders
Sicily
Sketchbook
Social Media
Society Of Mary (Marists)
Socket Head
Sorrowful & Immaculate Heart
South Australia
Spain
Star Of The Sea
St Carlo Acutis
St Francis Of Assisi
St Joseph
St Peter Apostle
Sydney NSW
TAFE Work
The Americas
The Bishop
Thick Pencil
Title Of BVM
Trains
Trams
Transport Heritage
Uganda
Update
Vatican City
Venice IT
Video
Viet Nam
Vignette
Virgin
Wall Art
Wall Paint
Watercolour
Website
World Youth Day
WYD 2008 Sydney
WYD 2023 Lisboa
WYD 2027 Seoul
WYD Lisbon 2023
WYD Preparation
Year Of Hope 2025
Year Of St Joseph 2021