The Lenten hymns in the Abbey Church never fail to move, like ‘Think on Me’. But as I went for a long walk after the words of another hymn, “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross”, came coming back to me.

At first I could only feel for the words. One by one they came back and I had to check the last couple at Vespers, but in a way this hymn contains everything, an antidote to our self-obsession. “My greatest gain I count but loss.”