Third Sunday in Advent - Lk 3: 7-18 -
Trish is a retired teacher and educational leader who worked in Catholic Education in Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia and Tasmania.
She has a lively interest in justice, peace and ecology and is a member of the Catholic Earthcare Australia Advisory Committee. She spent six years as a senior consultant working with groups of schools within the Sydney Catholic Education Office and five years as Director of Catholic Education in Tasmania. Her doctoral studies relate to education for ecological sustainability within Catholic school settings. Trish continues active involvement with schools, especially in mentoring and staff formation in Catholic Social Teaching and ecological awareness. She and her husband Vin are volunteers with Vinnies, and she is an active member of her local Catholic parish in Burnie Tasmania and of Church renewal and reform groups, especially Women and the Australian Church (WATAC) and ‘Concerned Catholics Tasmania’. Trish had a leadership role in the 2020 Plenary Council preparation in NW Tasmania and worked as a member of the Plenary Writing Group in relation to the theme: ‘Conversion, Renewal and Reform’. Her hobbies are reading, bush-walking, gardening, movies and current affairs. Family involvements, especially grandparenting and visiting her two adult children, are constant joys and top priorities.
