An Audio Advent Adventure
The Christmas Mystery (by Jostein Gaarder) tells the story of a Norwegian girl, Elisabet, who, while Christmas shopping with her mother, vanishes into thin air. Accompanied by angels, shepherds, kings and even a Roman governor, she is rushing back through time and space to Bethlehem, to be present at the birth of Christ. Fifty years later a boy called Joachim pieces together her story from a magic advent calendar and brings it to a conclusion.
This Advent, Fr. Gary and his wife, Susan Bailey, will record The Christmas Mystery for the Good Shepherd flock. The book is a literary Advent Calendar, with one chapter for each day from December 1 to December 24. Each chapter will be ready by the appropriate day, and will be archived (as individual audio files, in case someone misses a day) on the Good Shepherd website.