Christmas Mystery: 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.

The book is a literary Advent Calendar, with one chapter for each day from December 1 to December 24. Fr. Gary and his wife, Susan Bailey, have recorded The Christmas Mystery as a gift for the Good Shepherd flock. Please enjoy listening to the 24 chapters below as you travel through the Advent Season. Each chapter will be ready by the appropriate day, so be patient as we upload the files.

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Gaarder, Jostein. The Christmas Mystery. Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996.