Fr Martyn Hope and parishioners welcome you to our site.
Eastern Hills Anglicans is located on the southside of Brisbane between Morningside and Coorparoo, servicing Norman Park, Camp Hill and Seven Hills. We are a growing community of devoted Christians who seek the peace and comfort that comes from a deep relationship with God and Jesus.
We offer a relaxed, family focused and enjoyable Anglican service every Sunday at Camp Hill.
Note: babies and toddlers are most welcome to attend any service - we have toy baskets, books and pencils to keep them entertained and out of your hair during the mass. Our 8:00am service has a Sunday School and Creche for Babies and Toddlers.
Services are held weekly Sunday 8am (Family Eucharist) and 9:30am (Sung Eucharist) at 101 Watson St Camp Hill.
Our Church Community
Eastern Hills Anglicans is one of the older parishes within the Diocesan of Brisbane, having been established originally as two parishes - in 1924 (Norman Park) and 1926 (Camp Hill). In 1990 the two parishes were combined to become the Parish of Camp Hill with Norman Park. In 2007 we changed our name to Eastern Hills Anglicans and have modified our services to meet the needs of our community.
We are a welcoming community of devoted Anglicans who are actively seeking new ways of workshop that are relevant to the needs of the community today. Our traditional approaches are still very strong in our services, however our young and vibrant Council is dedicated to modernising our services and ministry to provide a connection to God for those in the community who feel removed from the Christian faith.
Parish Vision
To be a vibrant Christian community which offers a place for reflection and growth.
Fr Martyn's Comments
Transubstantiation?
Probably this is one of the most misunderstood pieces of Christian teaching. It was further complicated by the Reformation, which caused opposing sides to exaggerate and harden theological and political positions – whatever one side said, the other condemned and then exaggerated their own stance. At least in the last 45 years things have dramatically been reversed between Anglicans, Catholics and Lutherans as honest attempts have been made to understand what is meant behind the formula of words each use to describe the Eucharist.
Transubstantiation is a term used by Saint Thomas Aquinas (died 1274), a great thinker and theologian of the late Middle Ages. He was trying to describe, in the philosophy of Aristotle, the words and actions of Jesus at the Last Supper when He took some unleavened bread and ordinary wine and said this is my body, this is my blood.
One of the great objections to Aquinas’ term of transubstantiation (the substance of the bread and wine are changed into the substance of the body and blood of Christ) is that it still looks like and tastes like bread and wine. Yet, the first Protestant Archbishop Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, who opposed Aquinas, could write this beautiful prayer:
Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.
Aquinas would totally agree with Cranmer’s prayer, for both are dealing with great spiritual reality of the gift of Christ’s life and being to every believer. This is what Christ gives us – this is what transforms and changes us from mere mortals into being the Children of the Kingdom.
What's New
The Diocesan Synod
Fr Martyn, Val Burton, Viv Cowie and Deacon Greg will be representing the parish at the Synod of the Diocese from pm Friday 19 to Sunday 21 of June. Debbie Mullins as the Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese will also be attending and assisting the Synod with Diocesan constitutional and legal matters.
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