Songs of Praise: Seeds of Hope, Guildford

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Inspiring hymns and songs, together with stories of faith from around the UK and beyond.

Inspiring hymns and songs, together with uplifting stories of faith from around the UK and beyond.

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Kate Bottley

Katie Piper

Matthew Napier

Cat Lewis

Emyr Afan

Robin Anderson

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Seeds of Hope, Guildford

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Kate Bottley marks Guildford Cathedral’s 60th anniversary with stories of faith and hope.

The Rev Kate Bottley visits Guildford Cathedral for its sixtieth anniversary and hears stories of faith, including testimony from parents who forgave the man who killed their daughter.

To mark its sixtieth anniversary, the Rev Kate Bottley visits Guildford Cathedral to hear stories of faith and hope. She learns how construction was abandoned during the Second World War, but 200,000 people paid half a crown each in a Buy a Brick campaign to get the building finished. Kate also learns that women played key roles in the design of the building and are celebrated in much of the imagery and sculpture. 

Katie Piper meets Elizabeth and Fernando Jimenez to hear the extraordinary story of how they forgave the man who killed their daughter through dangerous driving and took him into their home. Back at the cathedral, the dean takes Katie to the vaults, where great-grandmother Sally Courtney launders all the cathedral surplices as a service to God. We visit the Seed Community at Waverley Abbey, where a new prayer garden designed and built by the community offers reflection and solace, and we have glorious hymns sung in the cathedral including Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead Us.

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