The Expected One

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I used to be a Conservative Christian. I know the Bible front and back. I have read all the "scholarly" books and church teachings from different evangelical teachers. Yet, I grew to find that the church is not what I thought it was and I don’t accept church doctrine anymore because I see the hate and hypocrisy in it.My friend learned that my husband and I watched "The Da Vinci Code," and even though I now know that Da Vinci was a John follower, at the time, I was really interested in learning more about Mary Magdalene possibly being married to Christ. She recommended this series to me and told us that after she and her husband read it, they were in awe and it all made sense.Except for the appendix with the full gospel of Mary Magdalene, I finished "The Expected One!" The Truth has made me gasp with excitement, cry, and express gratitude to Them for revealing the Truth to me. I have felt anger in the way that this Bible has been written and so much has been left out of it. The surprise that many Christians are actually following John the Baptist but it makes sense because they require repentance to be accepted despite the fact that Easa didn’t tell the people to repent according to Mary. Of course, I have to read the whole gospel of Mary. And the fact that Mary was poisoned by a follower of John but the Bible kept the context out and just said He drove 7 devils out of her. No, it was poison and Jesus healed her!And the passion of Easa. Omg! Pilate actually tried to save Jesus from death. He chose Roman power and paid for it but he and wonderful Claudia are Saints in some Eastern Orthodox churches and traditions. I just feel so open and humbled."The Book of Love" is waiting for me. I already ordered it. I’m so excited to read it after I read Mary’s Gospel. Judas is really a hero! I hate his legacy because I used to be so angry at him but we had watched "The Last Temptation of Christ" which is the first thing that introduced us to the possibility of Judas being a part of the plan. The way that Easa and Great Mary and Mary planned the entire last supper was so beautiful! But so sad that it was so fast. I was heartbroken for all of them!Again, so much truth in this story! I’m in awe of Kathleen McGowan. Thank you for sharing this series with me! It is all based off Kathleen's personal experience and the extensive research that she has done. I love the book so much!

This book felt like reading the story my heart knew all along, like coming home and waking up all at once. I’ve now read it twice, traveled to France inspired by the words in these pages and can see this being one of the most read books on my book shelves! A must read for all called to the Magdalene frequency and story.

This is not my normal pick but a friend recommended it. I am so glad I did. It's a wonderful novel that could so easily be a true story. The story is about Maureen Pascal that is chosen to find the lost Gospel of Mary. She has been having visions about the crucifixion and a beautiful woman in red. It turns out Maureen is a blood descendant of Mary Magdalene. She and her cousin, a Jesuit priest fly to France and get between two historic sects. One determined to find the Gospel and another set to destroy Maureen so she can't find them. The story goes back and forth between Mary's Journal entries and her life to present day Maureen learning about her heritage. This is the 1st book in a trilogy, Starting book 2, the Book of Love. Give it a chance, it's wonderful.

Great book

Une lecture très instructive, des informations, une formulation et un contenu très vastes.A conseiller à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à ce qui fait sens sur cette terre.

The Expected OneThe Book of LoveThese are the first two novels of the projected `Magdalene Line' trilogy. The Magdalene Line is a line running nearly due south from Amiens in northern France thru Paris to Montserrat in Northeastern Spain (some miles northwest of Barcelona). The somewhat controversial thesis of these books is that Miriam of Magdala (Mary Magdalene) was the wife of the first-century Jewish prophet Yeshua bar Miriam (known among English speakers as Jesus) and the mother of two children by him, and that after her husband was crucified, she escaped first to Alexandria in Egypt and later to what is now southeastern France, and lived for many more years in the Pyrenees Mountains not far from the Magdalene line.The known fact (long suppressed by the Church) that Miriam of Magdala was Yeshua's First Apostle, the Apostle to the Apostles, leads naturally enough to the speculation of a romantic connection. Richard J. Hooper argues quite reasonably that, given the religious value placed on celibacy, it is most unlikely.* It is indeed almost unbelievable that Yeshua would have entered into any romantic involvement once he decided to begin his ministry or shortly prior thereto. But we know virtually nothing of his life before he felt the call to preach; it is not at all unreasonable to speculate that during that period of his life he might have married and that Miriam of Magdala may have become his wife. I would like to believe it so, because I believe he more than deserved the comfort of a loving and understanding wife. But I am not convinced either way.Some of the other details of Yeshua's life as portrayed here are highly dubious, for example the portrayal of Judas Iscariot's `betrayal' of Yeshua as analogous to Severus Snape's `betrayal' of Albus, but if I can suspend disbelief to read and greatly enjoy novels of alternate history such as Eric Flint's wonderful and its sequels, then I reckon I can bear with Kathleen McGowan's portrayal of Yeshua bar Miriam; and the tale she tells has enough action, suspense, and excitement, real history, and even food for thought, to be well worth bearing with.Maureen Paschal, a writer, is the primary point-of-view character of the trilogy.The first novel, The Expected One, alternates between the story of Maureen finding a long-hidden gospel written in France by Miriam of Magdala and the story of Miriam herself. The second, The Book of Love, similarly alternates between Maureen's adventures while seeking and finding a copy of The Book of Love, written by Yeshua bar Miriam himself and secretly preserved in a monastery near the northern end of the Magdalene line, and the at least mostly historical story of the eleventh-century Countess Mathilda of Canossa, Duke Godfrey of Lorraine and his son Godfrey the hunchback, King Henry IV of Germany, and Pope Gregory VII (all actual historical characters).I look forward to the third novel of this trilogy* Richard J. Hooper, [...]