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The Ecumenical Testament by Fr Paul Couture is a book about pain. The pain of Christ because of the mutual enmity and rejection between His disciples. The pain that the sensitive heart of an ordinary French priest took on, just as the bodies of mystics take on the pain of Jesus' pierced hands, feet and side in the stigmata. The question that this text poses to us is very simple: are we, for our part, ready to open ourselves to these wounds of Jesus, to his pain? The wounds that Christ in glory still bears on His resurrected body, as the Russian Orthodox Archimandrite Zinon very appropriately depicted in his fresco in the Belgian Catholic monastery of Chevetogne. The text suffered by Fr Paul Couture invites us to become stigmatists ourselves, even for a moment, even for the duration of the reading, feeling Jesus' suffering from the division among His disciples. And His joy at the steps they take towards each other, seeking unity in Him.