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Mrs C Anderson

Catherine graduated with a degree in Hotel and Catering Management from the University of Strathclyde. Since then she has been involved in education for over 33 years. She worked for Oldham Education Department for 10 years and then moved into Higher Education where she retired as the Director of Estates and Facilities at the University of Liverpool in 2014. She was a Foundation Governor of Mount Carmel RC Primary School, where she went to school, for 27 years and was Chair over a 10 year period until it joined the Emmaus family in 2021. She has a wealth of experience as a Non-Executive Director in both the academy sector, the private sector, and the NHS, where she was a NED of an NHS Foundation Trust hospital for 7 years until her retirement in 2022. She is also a Director and Partner in her own management consultancy business as well as a small construction firm.

She is totally committed to catholic education and its transformative power in the formation of the human person.

In her spare time she is a keen sailor, following in the footsteps of her father who was in the Royal Navy. She also loves cooking and entertaining friends and family.

Key areas of expertise;

  • Chair and Non-Executive Director of Limited Companies and Charitable Trusts
  • Chair and Foundation Governor in Primary Sector
  • Education Management experience in Primary, Secondary and Higher Education
  • Strategic Planning and Development
  • Risk Management
  • Finance and Capital Management and Planning
  • Leadership Development
  • Project Management

On the Road to Emmaus

13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles[a] from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing him.

17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

19 “What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. 22 In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning 23 but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. 24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”

25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. 29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34 and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35 Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

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