About Us
Our Vicar
Rev Canon Glenn Loughrey came to St Oswald’s Church in 2015. He is a priest, artist and author and has a special interest in indigenous issues. He is a Wiradjuri man.
In August 2021, he was appointed a canon of St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne and became the artist-in-residence. In this role, he has produced artwork for two new windows showing how the Cathedral sits on the land of the original indigenous people.
Organist
Organist and Music Director Daniel Brace joined the music team at St Oswald’s Church in 2021. He says “there is a wonderful music tradition at St. Oswald’s, and I look forward to working with everyone who loves music to enhance and enrich our worship together.”
Credits include: Concert for James Macauley; Instruments of Reflection: music of Margaret Rizza; and the organ works of Spanish composer Juan Cabanilles (1644-1712).
Our Logo
The logo represents the vision of our parish – to thrive as a welcoming Christian church community.
The logo expresses welcome and openness to the other through the hands which both hold out for blessing, reach out for community and releases the power of the Spirit into the world.
The dove is universally recognised as God’s empowering and creative spirit.
The leaves remind us we are a community committed to reconciliation, both through the liturgy and our living out of our relationship with God.
Our Vicar Glenn Loughrey writes:
The challenge for the church is to explore options wider than our experience, to be open to ideas we have yet to encounter or know exist, and to avoid using our own limited experience as the benchmark by which we judge an idea, person or opportunity.
Our familiarity with our tradition, past practice and our ingrained biases diminishes our capacity to live the good news in our community. Our familiarity with who we are, where have been and what we know can get in the way of our encountering Jesus, either directly or in those opportunities or people we encounter. We reply with the answers we have become comfortable with, based on what we have experienced.
The Anglican Church is being challenged to discover new questions requiring answers and responding by being open to much more than we individually or corporately know or have experienced.
St Oswald’s accepts this challenge to live with the questions regarding our place in this community, what the future holds for us, how to reinvent ourselves without closing up like a sunflower when the sun goes down, because what we know now seems to be insufficient for the task at hand.
We invite you to join with us as we explore new ways of being community and of living life to the full. Your voice and experience is vital to this journey.